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CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACEvE. 
[Glochidion. 
triquetrous. Hab. Singapore, Reservoir; Bajau; Pulau Damar; 
Botanic Gardens (Ridley). Malacca and Sungei Ujong (Cantley). 
(io) G. Kunstlerianum Gage, Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. l.c. 220. 
Shrub 6 to 9 ft. tall; branches yellowish brown, sometimes 
sparsely pubescent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate thinly coriaceous 
acute or caudate-acuminate, base rounded slightly unequal, above 
dark, beneath, midrib ferruginous pubescent and scabrid with hair 
bases; nerves 10 to 12 pairs; 1*5 to 3*5 in. long, -3 to 1-25 in. wide; 
petioles more or less red pubescent, *05 in. long. Flowers in 
axillary heads. Male flowers pedicelled; bracteoles imbricate 
triangular, -i in. long, pedicels half as long. Sepals 6 or 7 in two 
rows, widely ovate. Petals 3 or 4, narrower. Stamens 3, con¬ 
nectives forming a cone. Female flowers sessile. Sepals more 
or less red pubescent, broadly ovate. Petals ovate. Ovary above 
ferruginous-tomentose. Styles 3, thick conic diverged. Fruit sub- 
orbicular, 3-lobed, *i in. long, -15 in. wide, slightly pubescent. 
Seeds smooth triquetrous. Hab. Singapore (Kurz, Anderson). 
Johor, Serom (Ridley). Selangor, Kwala Lumpur (Curtis). Perak, 
Ulu Kerling (Kunstler). 
(n) G. trilobum Ridl. Kew Bulletin, 1923, p. 364. 
Tree. Branchlets finely pubescent. Leaves membranous or 
sub-coriaceous obliquely oblanceolate blunt acuminate glabrous 
above except midrib and nerves 7 pairs, fine pubescent beneath, 
4-25 to 5 in. long, 1*5 to 2 in. wide; petioles *15 in. long. Male 
flowers in pubescent fascicles of 8; pedicels slender, -12 in. long, 
pubescent. Sepals, outer whorl linear-oblong blunt recurved 
pubescent, inner ones similar but glabrous spreading. Anthers 
shorter 3, forming a cone. Female flowers unknown. Capsules 
about 12, in a cluster on a short pubescent raceme on pedicels 
*2 in. long pubescent, obcordate trilobed top, depressed pubescent, 
•15 in. across. Style pulvinate short. Sepals short oblong. Seeds 
3, shining red, backs rounded. Hab. Woods. Singapore, Botanic 
Gardens (Ridley). Negri Sembilan, Tampin (Burkill). 
Allied to D. microbotrys, but that is quite glabrous and has a longer 
peduncle and shorter pedicels. 
(12) G. Maingayi Gage, Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. l.c. 221. 
Shrub or tree, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous elliptic blunt, 
base round; nerves 8 pairs; 5 to 7 in. long, 275 to 3 in. wide; 
petioles -i in. long, thick. Flowers in a head -5 in. through, on 
a stout peduncle *2 in. long. Male flowers, pedicels *1 in. long. 
Sepals 6, obovate, outer ones setulose outside. Stamens 5, con¬ 
nectives forming an umbo. Female flower pedicels half as long as 
male. Calyx cup-shaped with 5 sub-triangular teeth. Ovary sub- 
globose or sub-pyriform, tip obtuse or sub-acute, 5-cleft half exsert 
from calyx. Capsule (unripe) sub-globose 4-locular. Hab. Singapore, 
Bukit Timah (Ridley). Malacca (Maingay). 
Near G. goniocarpum Hook, fil., but the stigma is sessile. 
