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CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACEAL 
[Glochidion. 
10. GLOCHIDION, Forst. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled sub-cori¬ 
aceous. Flowers small in axillary clusters, apetalous without disc, 
scales or glands. Male flowers; sepals 6, rarely 5, in 2 series, 
imbricate. Anthers 3 to 8, connate in an ellipsoid or oblong 
column, cells linear, connective produced into separate points or 
connate in an umbonate head. Pistillode o or minute between 
the anthers. Female flowers of 6 short imbricate sepals, or tubular 
and unequally toothed or cleft. Ovary 3- to 15-celled. Styles 
connate in a globose, columnar or conic column lobed or toothed 
at tip, in § Glochidiopsis 3, free. Ovules 2 in a cell. Capsule of 3 
or more 2-valved cocci, often with twice as many lobes as cells, 
globose, or orbicular, depressed or intruded at tip, cocci crust- 
aceous. Seed hemispherical or laterally compressed. Species 120, 
chiefly Asiatic. 
i. Euglochidion. Styles confluent in a column lobed or notched at the 
tip. 
Capsule not, or very indistinctly, lobed. 
Capsule fleshy pink, 8- to 10-celled; leaves 
rounded...... 
Capsule brown coriaceous; style short 
columnar. 
Leaves oblong acuminate glabrous. 
Flowers glabrous ..... 
Flowers hairy ..... 
Cymes few-flowered sessile; flowers 
glabrous ..... 
Capsule brown pubescent; leaves glaucous 
beneath ..... 
Capsule trilocular, trilobed, small. 
Leaves coriaceous tomentose beneath; cap¬ 
sules in heads 2 in. across 
Leaves not or hardly pubescent membranous. 
Whole plant glabrous; cymes peduncled 
Whole plant glabrous; clusters and flowers 
sessile ...... 
Branches and capsules pubescent 
Leaf-nerves beneath pubescent; capsule 
slightly so .... 
All pubescent; capsule obconic 
Capsule 4- or 5-lobed; leaves coriaceous. 
Leaves and branches glabrous. 
Flowers in sessile fascicles 
Flowers in peduncled cymes; fruits angled, 
densely hairy .... 
Leaves and branches hairy; fruit round, 
glabrous. 
Capsule where known 6- to 8-celled and lobed. 
Style columnar longer than perianth, notched 
or bifid. 
Branches winged; style clubbed 
Branches not winged; style columnar. 
Plant pubescent. 
Leaves ovate-elliptic, 1 to 2 in. long 
(1) G. littorale 
(2) G. brunneum 
(3) G. pedunculatum 
(4) G. glaberrimum 
(5) G. obseurum 
(6) G. superbum 
(7) G. microbotrys 
(8) G. glomerulatum 
(9) G. singaporense 
(10) G. Kunstlerianum 
(11) G. trilobum 
(12) G. Maingayi 
(13) G. goniocarpum 
(14) G. arborescens 
(15) G. tetrapteron 
(16) G. villicaule 
