Andrachne.] CXXXV. EvPHORBIAGCEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 285 
epicarp separating ; seeds transversely wrinkled.—The Timor Laut specimen so closely 
Pee oles this, that I think they must be co-specific, though I find no petals in their 
ew flowers, 
9. A. Clarkei, Hook. f; sparsely hairy, branches acutely angled, 
leaves ovate-lanceolate acuminate base rounded, ovary glabrous. 
MUNNIPORE; on Kohima, alt. 4700 ft., Clarke. 
A slender erect shrub, 18 in. high ; branches green with slender ribs at the angles. 
Leaves 2-25 in., pale green, laxly hairy beneath ; petiole }-} in., pubescent. Male ff. 
è in. diam.; pedicel capillary, 1—3 in.; sepals oblong, obtuse, rather fleshy, hairy 
externally ; petals } as long as the sepals ; disk-scales linear, in pairs opposite the 
sepals with a gland between the bases of each pair, about as long as the petals. 
Stamens erect; pistillode 0? Fem. fl. j in. diam.; pedicel 3-1 in.; sepals ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, green; disk-scales as in the male; ovary quite glabrous. 
Capsule 3-lobed, depressed, smooth, glabrous, about j in. diam. ; seeds turgidly 
trigonous, smooth. 
9. AGYNEIA, Vent. 
Annual or perennial glabrous herbs; stems diffuse, often angled or com- 
Pressed. Leaves small, alternate, quite entire. Flowers minute, moncecious, 
apetalous; males in axillary clusters; females solitary, largest; bracts often 
pumerous, stipule-like. MALE rr. Sepals 6, gland-dotted, thickened all but 
the white margins. Disk 6-lobed. Stamens 3, central; anthers subsessile 
on the connate filaments; cells parallel, extrorse. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. 
Disk 0. Sepals acute, not margined. Ovary ovoid, 3-celled, truncate ; 
styles very short, 2-fid, sunk in the top of the ovary. Ovules 2 in each cell. 
apsule splitting into 3 2-valved cocci. Seeds slender, curved, hilum long, 
albumen fleshy ; embryo curved, cotyledons broad flat.— Species 2, Indian, 
alayan, and Mascarene. 
b A. bacciformis, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 24; leaves fleshy sessile 
ol long obovate or rounded to linear-lanceolate acute or acuminate obtuse 
gous: Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 238; Wight Ic. t. 1893; Miquel 
7 : Ind.. Bat. i. 2. 367. A. impubes, Vent. Hort. Cels. 23, t. 23; A. Juss. 
: € 109, t. 6, £. 19; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. t. 24, f. 10-14. A. phyl- 
anthoides, Spreng. Syst. ii. 19. Phyllanthus bacciformis, Lina. Syst. 
7.13, 707; Rozb. Fl. Ind.iü. 661; Wall. Cat. 7896. P. racemosus, Linn. 
"ppl. 415. P. anceps & rotundifolius, Herb. Madr. Diplomorpha her- 
acea, Griff. Notul. iv. 479. Emblica racemosa, Spreng. Syst. iii. 20. 
BrNGAL, Griffith, Clarke. CoRoMANDEL Coast, in grassy pastures, Roxburgh, 
A EYLON, near the sea.— DISTRIB. Java, Mauritius. 
rare] dnaal or biennial. Stems 6-18 in., laxly branched, angular, green. Leaves 
short) in. long, nerveless; stipules minute, ovate or lanceolate, acute. Flowers 
studded e dicelled, males +); in., fem, $—} in. diam. Sepals broadly ovate, acuminate, 
recury, with immersed glands, persistent. Ovary broadly ovoid, obtuse ; style with 2 
teret ed arms, stigmas acute. Capsule 3 in. long, globosely ovoid, obtuse, pearly 
only T have seen no specimen of the Javanese A. affinis, Kurz (DC. 1. c. 239) ; the 
: #Vanese species known to me is bacciformis, collected by Horsfield. Roxburgh 
me 
tribes the male sepals as laciniate. 
10. PHYLLANTHUS, Lina. 
(See also 11. GLOCHIDION.) 
Herbs, trees or shrubs. Leaves bifarious or distichous, alternate, quite 
