Glochidion multiloculare
(Rottler ex Willd.) Voigt, Hort. Suburb. Calcutt. 152. 1845;
Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 307. 1887; Prain, Bengal Pl. 2: 930. 1903; Duthie, Fl. Gangetic Plain 3(1):
89. 1915; Haines, Bot. Bihar Orissa 2: 130. 1921; Kanjilal et al., Fl. Assam 4: 181. 1940, p. p.
Agyneia multilocularis Rottler ex Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Neue Schriften 4: 206.
1803 & Sp. Pl. ed. 4, 4: 569. 1805. Bradleia multiloculare (Rottler ex Willd.) Spreng., Syst. Veg.
3: 19. 1826; Roxb., Fl. Ind., ed. Carey 3: 696. 1832. Phyllanthus multilocularis (Rottler ex Willd.)
Müll.Arg. in Flora 48: 370. 1865 & in DC., Prodr. 15(2): 279. 1866.
Asm.: Garumora, Panimudi; Beng. (Tripura): Keonara; Burm.: Mama; Sant.: Nanhabaniakandhum.
Bushy shrubs or trees, 1 - 8 m tall, almost entirely glabrous or entirely pubescent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute or unequal at base, curling upwards along margins on drying, acute to apiculate or rounded at apex, 3 - 14 x 0.5 - 4 cm, chartaceous to coriaceous, often glaucous beneath; lateral nerves 5 - 8 pairs; petioles 1 - 4 x 1 - 2 mm. Inflorescences dense-flowered, sometimes borne in the axils of fallen leaves, occasionally pedunculate (peduncles up to 7 mm long). Male flowers: pedicels 5 - 8 mm long; sepals 3 + 2 (- 3), oblong, ovate to suborbicular, 1.5 - 2 x 0.7 - 1.5 mm; anthers ca 5 (reported to be 4 - 12), 1 - 1.5 mm long. Female flowers: pedicels 3 - 5 mm long; sepals 5 - 6 + 3 - 6, ovate, oblong, lanceolate or suborbicular, 1.5 - 2.5 x 0.5 - 2.5 mm; ovary depressed, 1.5 - 2.5 mm in diam., 8 - 12 (- 15)-locular, densely pubescent or glabrous; styles with stigma broader than high (hardly any stigmatic cone), 8 - 12 in a ring or connivent forming a conical or subglobose mass (1.5 - 2 mm long) or sometimes longer (0.5 - 1 mm long). Fruits depressed-subglobose, 6 - 9 x 12 - 25 mm, 8 - 12 (- 15)- locular, deeply lobed (lobes narrow), glabrous, dark brown to blackish when dry; pedicels 3 - 9 mm long.
Bushy shrubs or trees, 1 - 8 m tall, almost entirely glabrous or entirely pubescent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute or unequal at base, curling upwards along margins on drying, acute to apiculate or rounded at apex, 3 - 14 x 0.5 - 4 cm, chartaceous to coriaceous, often glaucous beneath; lateral nerves 5 - 8 pairs; petioles 1 - 4 x 1 - 2 mm. Inflorescences dense-flowered, sometimes borne in the axils of fallen leaves, occasionally pedunculate (peduncles up to 7 mm long). Male flowers: pedicels 5 - 8 mm long; sepals 3 + 2 (- 3), oblong, ovate to suborbicular, 1.5 - 2 x 0.7 - 1.5 mm; anthers ca 5 (reported to be 4 - 12), 1 - 1.5 mm long. Female flowers: pedicels 3 - 5 mm long; sepals 5 - 6 + 3 - 6, ovate, oblong, lanceolate or suborbicular, 1.5 - 2.5 x 0.5 - 2.5 mm; ovary depressed, 1.5 - 2.5 mm in diam., 8 - 12 (- 15)-locular, densely pubescent or glabrous; styles with stigma broader than high (hardly any stigmatic cone), 8 - 12 in a ring or connivent forming a conical or subglobose mass (1.5 - 2 mm long) or sometimes longer (0.5 - 1 mm long). Fruits depressed-subglobose, 6 - 9 x 12 - 25 mm, 8 - 12 (- 15)- locular, deeply lobed (lobes narrow), glabrous, dark brown to blackish when dry; pedicels 3 - 9 mm long.
KEY TO THE VARIETIES
| 1a. All parts (often except ovary) glabrous | 16.1. multiloculare |
| b. All parts pubescent | 16.2. pubescens |
