CXXVIIT. EUPHORBIACE^E. 
Gelonium.] 
3ii 
or serrate. Stipules connate sheathing. Flowers small white in 
axillary clusters sessile or peduncled, often leaf-opposed apetalous. 
Male flowers; sepals 5 orbicular imbricate. Stamens 10 to 60 on 
a convex receptacle, filaments filiform; anthers oblong dorsifixed. 
No pistillode. Female flowers; sepals 5 or 6, narrower than in 
males. Disc cupular. Ovary 2- to 4-elled. Styles minute 
reniform, crescentic or bifid. Fruit globose, 3- to 4-angled ordobed, 
more or less fleshy dehiscing at length. Seeds arillate. Species 
about 20, Asiatic and African. 
Leaves thick shining blunt oblong-obovate; 
stamens 20 to 40 . 
Leaves thin fleshy coriaceous acuminate oblong- 
lanceolate ; stamens 40 to 60 . 
Leaves thin lanceolate acuminate; stamens 12 to 20 
Leaves thin elliptic acuminate, 7 in. long; stamens 
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(1) G. glomerulatum 
(2) G. multiflorum 
(3) G. bifarium 
(4) G. tenuifolium 
(1) G. glomerulatum Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 237; Hook. fil. F.B.I. 
v. 460. 
Bushy tree. Leaves fleshy coriaceous elliptic-oblong or elliptic- 
obovate, tip quite round, base cuneate; nerves 5 pairs slender 
usually faint, reticulations very fine and close; 2-5 to 3 in. long, 
i-i to 175 in. wide; petioles -i in. long. Male flowers numerous in 
fascicles, greenish yellow on slender short pedicels. Stamens 20 to 
40. Capsule globose, *4 in. long, obscurely 3-lobed, flattened at 
both ends. Seed pale, *25 in. long, back convex tessella te Hab. 
Common in open spots. Singapore, Changi; Bukit Tumah. 
Malacca, Pringgit (Griffith); Bukit China (Goodenough) Perak. 
Penang, Batu Feringhi, and Penara Bukit. Distnb. Malay 
Archipelago. Native name : Limau-Limau. 
Hooker says the fruit shows no signs of dehiscence; however fully ripe, 
fruit dehisces freely. 
(2) G. multiflorum Juss. Enphorb. Tent. iii. t. 10, fig. 31A. 
Shrub 2 to 6 ft. tall or small tree. Leaves thinly fleshy coriaceous 
oblong or oblong-lanceolate, blunt or acuminate, base narrowed 
entire" nerves 7 pairs slender, faint; 4 to 6 in. long, i"25 to 2 in. 
wide" petioles -2 to -4 in. long. Male flowers in fascicles of about 
12 white, pedicels *i in. long. Stamens 4° t° 60. Fruit globose, 
green rough, *5 in. through; pericarp thick. Seeds *3 m through, 
testa pitted. Hab. Woods, Malacca (Mamgay)1; Bukit Bruang 
and Bukit Panchur (Cantley). Pahang, Kwala Tekarn and Kota 
Tongkat (Evans), Negri Sembilan, Tampin (Burkill). Penang, 
Pulau Betong (Curtis); Government Hill; Penara Bukit. Distnb. 
India, Siam. Native names: Ruas-Ruas; Lampun hitam, Buah 
Punei; Mingantok. „ , rDT 
(3) G. bifarium Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 830 ; Hook. fit. F.B.I. v. 459 . 
A low bushy tree. Leaves thin elliptic-oblong to elliptic- 
lanceolate acuminate or acute, base acuminate or shortly narrowed; 
