rh^llanihus.'] 



80. EUPHORBlACEiE. 



301 



A moderate- sized, white barked tree. Bark scaly, very characteristic, 

 smooth, exfoliating in plates, disclosing irregular shaped patches covered 

 ■w ith brown, thick lines ; inner bark with brown, regular bands of fibrous 

 tissue : green cells developed. W ood reddish, white, tough, hard, smooth, 

 compact. Annual rings distinct. Pores small equally distributed. 

 Medullary rays fine, wavy, white. Weighs 54 lbs. to the cub. ft. This is 

 the Pan Nana" tree of some of the Belgaum District evergreen forests. 

 Fruit slightly depressed, spherical, '25 in. in diam. Seeds blue. 



6. GLOCHIDION, Forst. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, bifarions. Flowers small, 

 in axillary clusters^ usually monoicous, apetalous. No disk glands. 

 Male fl. Sepals 6, in 2 series, imbricate. Anther 3-8^ connate in a 

 column ; cells linear ; dehiecence extroiise ; connective produced, into 

 separate points or connate in an umbonate head. Female fl. Calyx 

 of 6 short sepals. Ovary of 3-1 5-cells ; styles connate in a globose, 

 conical or sub-clavate column, lobed or toothed at the tip, usually 

 lengthening during or after flowering ; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule 

 of 3 or more 2-valved cocci. Seeds albuminous ; cotyledons flat. 

 This genus differs from Phyllanthus in the total absence of a disk 

 and in the peculiar modification of the styles. The separation and 

 limitation of the species of GlochicUon is very difiicult. 



Female caljx with 5-6 sepals. Anthers 4, Style conical. 



Leaves glabrous, elliptic, base acute. Style truncate, 1. Q-. lanceolarinm. 

 Leaves softly pubescent, large, ovate or cordate, 



Style 4-5-cleft ..2. Q-. tomentosum. 



Leaves glabrous, shining. Style 6-S-toothed ...3. G-. zeylanicum. 

 Female calyx irregularly 4:-6-lobed or toothed. Anthers 

 3. Style globose or sub-globose. 

 Ovary glabrous, 8-lobed. Capsule much depressed 



6-8-lobed 4. G. HohenacTceri, 



Ovary very short, villous, 3-6-celled. Capsule 



faintly lobed 5. JRalpMi. 



Ovary glabrous, 4-5-celled. Capsule obtusely trian- 

 gular, 6-lobed 6. Q'. Jolmstonei, 



Female calyx of 6, free sepals. Anthers 3. Style minute, 

 glabrous or nearly so. 



Stipules subulate. Style very minute, conical ... 7, G» malabariam. 

 Stipules triangular, hastate or falcate. Style 



short, stout, conical 8. G» ellipticum. 



Pubescent or tomentose. 



Style stout, exceeding the sepals, obconic, tip 

 lobed ... ... 9. G^. velutinum* 



1. G. lanceolarium, l^alz. in Bomb. FL 235 ; FL Br. I. 5. 308 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 192. Phyllanthus lanceolarius, Muell. Arg. Brandis For. 

 FL 453. Bhoma^ M. 



North- West India from Nepal to Assam, Silhet and Chittagong. 



Throughout the presidency, in deciduous forests, common on the 

 Konkan and North Kdnara ghats. FL Fr. Dec.-Apl. 



A small tree. Bark smooth, thin ; inner reddish. Wood hard and 

 durable; used for house building. Capsule pale green, puberuloua. 



