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CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACE^E. 
[Glochidion. 
blunt, thickly pubescent. Ovary hairy semi-ovoid. Style conic 
hairy. Stigma pulvinate lobed. Fruit unknown. Hab. Forests, 
Singapore, Bukit Timah (Ridley). 
The habit of this is quite like that of G. brunneum and G, glaberrimum. 
(4) G. glaberrimum Ridl. Kew Bulletin, 1923, p. 363. 
Shrub or tree 10 to 15 ft. tall, glabrous. Leaves obliquely 
oblong bluntly shortly acuminate, base very shortly narrowed; 
nerves 9 pairs faint; 4 in. long, 1*5 in. wide; petioles -2 in. long. 
Stipules rigid lanceolate acuminate acute. Male flowers not seen. 
Female flowers sub-sessile or with a short thick pedicel several in 
an axil. Sepals coriaceous ovate acute. Ovary ovoid. Style 
long stout clubbed with 3 broad lobes. Capsule orbicular flattened 
not lobed, -25 in. wide (ripe ?). Hab. Perlis, Kanga (Ridley). 
Allied to G. brunneum, but the inflorescence is not peduncled and the 
style much longer. 
(5) G. obseurum Bl. Bijdr . 585; Hook. fil. F.B.I. v. 317. 
Shrub 6 to 8 ft. tall to a tree 30 to 40 ft. tall and 6 to 12 in. 
through; branches finely tomentose. Leaves distichous oblong 
blunt, base unequal; nerves about 6 pairs sub-coriaceous; glabrous 
above except midrib, entirely grey-pubescent beneath, 1*5 to 2 in. 
long, *5 to -75 in. wide; petioles very short. Flowers few together, 
male and female. Males on slender pubescent pedicels -2 in. long. 
Sepals oblong blunt, pubescent outside, *08 in. long. Anthers 3 
(rarely 4 or 5) in a globose column. Females solitary among the 
males. Sepals short blunt recurved. Ovary globose 6- to 7-celled 
tomentose. Style columnar, 5 to 6 together tomentose. Capsule 
globose brown not lobed tomentose, *3 in. through on a pedicel 
■5 in. long. Hab. Common in woods and thickets. Pahang, 
Pekan, and Pahang River banks. Selangor, Kwala Lumpur. 
Perak, Sungei Rayah and Goping (Kunstler); Ulu Temengoh. 
Province Wellesley, Permatang Bertam. Penang (Wallich); Water¬ 
fall and Government Hill, 300 ft. altitude (Curtis). Distrib. Siam, 
Sumatra, Java, China. 
(6) G. superbum Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 638. 
A little-branched tree 20 to 30 ft. tall, 8 to 10 in. through; 
branchlets stout densely tomentose. Leaves thickly coriaceous 
glabrous with sunk reticulations, above midrib hairy, beneath all 
tomentose; nerves 10 pairs conspicuous as are reticulations; oblong 
acuminate or round-tipped, base round or cordate, 6 to 9 in. long, 
3 to 4 in. wide; petioles *i in. long or less. Flowers small pink 
in dense clusters. Males on filiform pedicels *2 in. long, all glabrous. 
Sepals linear-oblong. Anthers 3, connectives acute. Female 
flowers sessile in the same head or shortly pedicelled. Sepals 
oblong hairy. Ovary 3-celled, hairy. Style forming a short 
hairy cone, 3-cleft. Capsules pedicelled entire, 3-lobed pink 
pubescent, nearly *2 in. through, in heads often 2 in. through. 
