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Whampoa (ZHance!); Howakoxa (Wright! Wilford!). Mus. 
Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 
Widely spread in tropical Asia and Africa. Also Australia, 
according to Mueller, loc. cit. 
10. Phyllanthus simplex, Retz. Obs. Bot. v. p. 29; Muell. 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 391; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 
p. 295. 
Phyllanthus anceps, Vahl, Symb. ii. p. 95, sed vix Benth. Fl. Hongk. 
p. 311; Franchet, Pl. David. p. 266. 
Phyllanthus simplex, y. chinensis, Muell. Arg. in Linnea, xxxii. p. 33. 
Phyllanthus ussuriensis, Rupr. ex Regel, Veg. Skizz. Amur. p. 49); 
Franchet in Mém. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, xxiv. p. 251. 
CuruLr: near Peking (Bretschneider !); SuaNTUNG: Chefoo 
mountains (Faber!); Kianesv: hills near Shanghai (Carles!) ; 
Formosa: Takow (Playfair!) ; Huren: Ichang, Chienshih, and 
other localities (A. Henry, 4279, 7409, 8121!); KwawvcrTUNG 
(Ford!); Honexone (Wright!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
Throughout India to Ceylon, Malaya, and Polynesia, and in 
Mongolia, Mandshuria, and Japan. 
We have taken the species as limited by Mueller in De Can- 
dolle's * Prodromus,’ but the Chinese specimens are very uniform 
in appearance and belong to his varieties chinensis and ussuriensis, 
which are inseparable with numerous specimens under observation. 
11. Phyllanthus urinaria, Zinn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, p. 982; Muell. 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 364; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 
p- 293; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 310; Bretschn. Early Res. p. 172 ; 
Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. i. p. 426; Mazim. in Engl. 
Jahrb. vi. p. 59; Henriques in Bol. Soc. Brot. iii. p. 142. 
Phyllanthus cantoniensis, Hornem. Enum. Pl. Hort. Hafn. (1807), p. 29; 
Kl. Pl. Mey. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. p. 420. . 
Phyllanthus lepidocarpus, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. p. 35; 
Miq. in Ann. Bot. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. iii. p. 127. 
Phyllanthus leprocarpus, Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or.t. 1895. f. 4. 
Krawasv: Shanghai (Maingay !); Formosa (Oldham, 480 *) ; 
Hurren: Ichang and immediate neighbourhood (4. Henry, 
2788 !); Kwanetune (Meyen!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
Widely dispersed in the tropics both in the Old World and 
in America. 
[Phyllanthus villosus, Poir. (Lam. Encycl. v. p. 297), syn. 
Nymphanthus chinensis, Lour. (Fl. Cochinch. p. 544), recorded as 
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