Phyllanthus.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 287 
toothed or lacerate, of male fl. 4, of fem. 4 or 6. Stamens 2-4; anthers 
didymous or reniform, sessile around a minute pistillode on the top of a 
slender or short column, horizontal, cells often confluent, slits transverse. 
Styles 3, 2-fid or 2-partite. Capsule of 3 thinly crustaceous 2-valved cocci. 
Sect. VIII. Cicca. Atree. Sepals 4 (rarely 5-6)in both sexes. Stamens 
4, filaments free; anthers oblong, erect, slits vertical. Styles 4, free. Fruit 
fleshy, with a 3-4-celled bony endocarp. 
. Sect. IX. Pnosonus. Dicecious trees. Leaves deciduous. Sepals 4 
in both sexes. Stamens 4, filaments free; anthers erect, slits vertical. 
Styles 3, free, 2-fid. Fruit large, epicarp thin, dry, bursting irregularly, 
enclosing 8 thin walled 2-valved cocci. 
Sect. I. PELTANDRA (see p. 286). 
l. P. longipes, Muell. Arg, in Linnea xxxii. 10, and in DC. Prodr. 
xv. 11. 941; quite glabrous, leaves shortly petioled 3-5 in. very membranous 
ovate-lanceolate finely acuminate, fem. pedicels very long axillary, capsule 
small dry. Peltandra longipes, Wight Ic. t. 1891. Croton pedunculatus, 
Wall. Cat. 7767. 
Maranan; Mont. Mamettori, Herb. Madr.; at Quilon, Wight. 
Shrubby ?; bark white; branches long, terete, slender. Leaves undulate, base 
acute or rounded, subglaucous beneath ; nerves 6-8 pair, very slender; petiole }-} in., 
slender; stipules ovate, ciliate, caducous. Peduncles of fem. fl. };-} in., clothed with 
tetrastichously imbricating ovate fimbriate bracts; male pedicels 3, fem. 2-3 in. 
Male calyx 35, fem. } in. diam.; sepals 5, rounded. Disk of both sexes orbicular. 
Capsule 2 in. diam., globose; cocci thinly crustaceous. Seeds (in Wight’s figure) 
pyriform, 
2. P. macropus, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, leaves long petioled 3-5 in. 
very membranous ovate- or oblong-lanceolate finely acuminate, fem. pedicels 
very long axillary, capsule small dry. 
UPPER Assam; in the Mishmee Hills, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4811). 
Habit of P. longipes, but at once distinguished by the petiole 1-3 in. long.—The 
Specimens are in fruit only, which appears to be like that of P. longipes. The leaf 
Margins are crisply undulate, as if crenate. 
3. P. suberosus, Wight in Wall. Cat. 7910; branches very slender 
and petioles crisply puberulous, leaves 1-2 in. very membranous elliptic 
acute at both ends, fem. pedicels long capillary, capsule minute. Muell. 
gI. in Linnea xxxii. 10, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 311. Andrachne fru- 
icosa & Tragia glabrata, Heyne in Herb. Rottler. 
The Deccan PENINSULA, Wight; Samulcotta, Heyne. . 
a leaf m very slender, woody, terete; bark at the base corky ; branches flexuous, with 
at e ine, ; nerves 4-6 pair, extremely 
slender ; ole re arealer amate nabal B.  Pedicels axillary solitary or from 
3 petiole +,—1, in.; stipules ovate-subulate. : 1 
à very short peduncle clothed with subnlate bracts, male jl; in., fem. 3-1 in. Male 
d nearly to the top. 
n . , : 
i5 In. diam., fem. larger; sepals rounded. Filaments unite 
sule +; in. diam., cocci thinly crustaceous. 
4. P. Thwaitesianus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 341; quite 
glabrous, leaves 1-2 in. very shortly petioled membranous elliptic subacute 
ase acute, fem. pedicels capillary, capsule minute. P. Peltandra, Muell. 
FAA mE Peltandra flexuosa, Thwaites Enum. 281. P. parvifolia,, Wight 
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