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brown-purple, stalked, axillary, solitary or 2-3 together, the 
female overtopping the male. Male flowers : stamens 3, fila- 
ments free ; disk represented by glands. Female flowers : sepals 
reflexed in fruit ; ovary encircled at the base by the ring-like disk ; 
style -branches undivided. Capsule ^ in. diam. ; seeds minutely 
rough. 
Valleys below Simla; July-October.— Throughout India, ascending to 
6000 ft. — China, Pacific islands. 
7. GLOCHIDION. From the Greek glochis, a point ; referring 
to the pointed anthers. — Tropical regions, chiefly Asia. 
Glochidion velutinum, Wight ; FI. Br. Ind. v. 322. A small 
tree ; young branches softly tomentose. Leaves alternate, in two 
rows, shortly stalked, pubescent, entire, ovate or oblong-ovate, 2-3 
in., pointed. Flowers small, green-yellow, in axillary clusters, the 
male and female usually in the same cluster. Disk none. Male 
flowers stalked : sepals 6, lanceolate, spreading, hairy outside ; 
stamens 3, filaments very short, united, anthers oblong, cohering, 
pointed by the prolonged connective. Female flowers nearly 
sessile : sepals 5 or 6, ovate, erect, hairy outside ; ovary globose ; 
styles 3, united in a thick, cylindric column 4-5-lobed at the top 
and projecting above the sepals. Capsule J in. diam., globose, 
more or less flattened, 4-6-celled, 8-12-lobed, crowned by the 
persistent styles ; seeds 8-12, red. 
Sutlej valley ; May, June. — Outer Himalaya up to 5000 ft. — S. India. 
8. FLUEGGIA. In honour of J. Flugge, a German botanist 
and author of a monograph of the grasses in 1810. — Tropical 
regions of the Old World. 
Flueggia microcarpa, Bl. ; FI. Br. Ind. v. 328. A glabrous 
shrub. Leaves alternate, in two rows, shortly stalked, ovate or 
orbicular, 1-2 in. entire. Flowers minute, yellow-green, in axil- 
lary clusters, the male and female on separate plants. Calyx 
5-cleft. Male flowers numerous, long-stalked, in rounded, dense 
clusters : sepals spreading ; stamens 5, opposite the sepals, sur- 
rounding a rudimentary ovary consisting of 3 long, linear, erect 
styles, filaments free, long, far-exserted ; disk represented hy 5 
glands alternating with the stamens. Female flowers shortly 
stalked, in clusters of 3-6 : sepals erect ; ovary ovoid, encircled at 
the base by the ring-shaped, toothed disk ; styles 3 or 4, shortly 
united at the base, reflexed and each deeply divided into 2 or 3 
narrow, pointed lobes. Fruit globose, crowned by the star-like 
stigma, of two kinds, usually dry, 6-lobed, and about ^ in. diam., 
sometimes white and fleshy, J in. diam. ; seeds 3-6, minutely 
dotted. 
Valleys below Simla ; May-July.— Throughout India, ascending to 5000 ft. 
— China, Australia, Africa. 
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