Glochidion .] 
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Hab. Open country secondary jungle. Common, Singapore, Tang- 
lin; Selitar; Jurong. Malacca (Hervey); Ayer Panas (Cantley); 
Bukit Bruang (Derry). Perak, Relau Tujor (Wray); Ulu Bubong 
(Kunstler). Penang Hill (Wallich, Curtis, Kimstler). Distrib. 
Borneo, Java. Native names : Guramong Betina; Tamango. 
(7) G. microbotrys Hook. fit. F.B.I. v. 219. 
A tree 30 to 50 ft. tall, stem 10 to 15 in. through, glabrous. 
Leaves elliptic or ovate-oblong sub-acute shortly cuspidate thinly 
coriaceous, rich glossy green drying black; nerves 6 to 8 pairs, 
slender; 3-25 to 4 in. long, 1*75 to 2 in. wide; petioles *i to -15 in. 
long. Flowers in peduncled cymes; peduncles -5 to -75 in. long. 
Male and female flowers mixed all pedicelled. Male flowers very 
minute, -05 in. long. Outer sepals broad ovate, inner nearly round. 
Anther-column broad, connectives blunt. Female perianth as in 
male. Ovary globose glabrous; style faintly 4- to 6-lobed, very 
short. Capsule sub-sessile, *12 in, through, turbinate globose 
glabrous, 3-lobed, 6-ribbed, green, flat at tip, drying black. Hab. 
Rocky creeks and forest, Singapore (Kunstler); Changi; Chan 
Chu Kang; Pulau Ubin (Ridley). Perak, no locality (Kunstler). 
(8) G. glomerulatum Boerl. FI. Nederl. hid. iii. 276. Phyllan- 
thus glomerulatus Mull. Arg. DC. Prod. 15, ii. 293. 
Glabrous tree with slender branches. Leaves thinly coriaceous 
drying black lanceolate-elliptic acuminate; nerves 6 pairs slender; 
3 in. long, 1*5 in. wide; petioles slender, -i in. long. Flowers in 
small clusters sessile yellow. Bracts very small oblong lanceolate. 
Male flowers minute. Anthers 3, connate, connectives prolonged 
blunt. Female flowers sessile; sepals 5 or 6 broadly ovate blunt. 
Ovary glabrous. Styles very short. Capsule white, globose, 
3-lobed, 6-ribbed, -i in. through, puberulous. Hab. Rare, Perak 
Goping (Kunstler). Distrib. Sumatra. 
Near G, microbotrys , but the fruits are sessile and the style more minute. 
(9) G. singaporense Gage, Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. l.c. 221 
Tree or shrub, branchlets yellow-brown muriculate. Leaves 
obliquely oblong-ovate or oblong-elliptic, shortly sub-caudate 
acuminate, base unequally cuneate above shining glabrous except 
the hairy base of the midrib, beneath minutely pustular, midrib 
and nerves 9 pairs sparsely hairy; 1-4 to 4-1 in. long, -75 to 2 in. 
wide, more or less hairy. Flowers mixed in minute axillary heads. 
Bracts ovate more or less ciliate. Male flowers, pedicels filiform, 
•12 in. long, sparsely hairy. Sepals 3, oblong-ovate, sub-acute, 
sparsely setulose outside. Petals smaller nearly or quite glabrous. 
Anthers 3, connectives forming an umbo. Female flowers sub- 
sessile. Sepals lanceolate hairy outside. Petals narrower. Ovary 
sub-conic, 3-celled, hairy. Style trifid. Capsule on a pedicel -12 in. 
long, depressed sub-globose, 3-lobed, -i in. long, -12 in. wide, velvety 
pubescent, cocci rounded; style minute trifid. Seeds obliquely 
fj.m.p., 3 p 
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