288 CXXXV. EUFHORBI\CEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Phyllanthus. 
CEYLON ; at Minnery, not common, Thwaites. 
Stem shrubby below, much branched above, branches slender angular. Leaves 
bright glaucous-green often marbled with white, very thin; nerves 4-5 pair, extremely 
slender; petiole 4-3 in.; stipules subulate. Pedicels axillary or from a very short, 
peduncle clothed with ovate fimbriate bracts, male } in., fem. $-$ in. Male fl. y in. 
diam., fem. larger; sepals rounded. Filaments united to the middle. Style-arms 
capitellate. Capsule } in. diam.—I have little doubt but that Wight’s Peltandra 
parvifolia, of which he had lost the locality, is from Ceylon, and is the Phyll. 
Thwaitesianus, Muell., in which I find the filaments free from the middle upwards. 
Sect. II. KrRGANELIA (see p. 286). 
5. P. reticulatus, Poir. Encycl. v. 298; glabrous pubescent or 
tomentose, branches smooth or tuberculate, leaves 1-2 in. oblong or elliptic 
tip rounded obtuse or acute, flowers axillary and subracemose on slender 
branches, 3 inner filaments connate, ovary globose 5-8-celled, stigmas 3 
distant very minute 2-lobed, fruit coriaceous or fleshy 8-16-seeded. Muell. 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 944; Brand. For. Fl. 453; Beddome Forester $ 
Man. 190; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 353. P. microcarpus, Muell. Arg. m 
Linnea xxxii. 51, and in DC. l. c. 943. P. multiflorus, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 
581; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 664 (not of Roxb. Icon.); Grah. Cat. Bomb. 
Pl. 180; Wall. Cat. 7921. P. Kirganelia, Herb. Ham. and Roxb. f 
dalbergioides & myrtifolius, Wall. Cat. 7934 and 7940. P. Wighti- 
anus, Wall. Cat. 7919. P. griseus, Wall. Cat. 7918 A (im part) = 
Prieurianus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 19. P. Chamissonis, Klotzsch in 
Nov. Acad. Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. 490. P. sinensis, Muell. Arg. in Linnea 
l. c.12. P. puberulus, Miquel in Herb. Hohenack. No. 728. P. pentandrus, 
Herb. Roxb. P. virosus, Wall. Cat. 7998 D. P. spinescens, Wall. mss. 
Anisonema reticulatum, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 19 t. 4, f. 1. A. mul- 
tiflorum, Wight Ic. t. 1899; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 234. A. Zollinger, 
Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 375, and Suppl. 449. A. dubium, Blume jd. 
989; Dene. in Nouv. Ann. Mus. iii. 481; Miquel l. e. 375. A. intermedium 
& eglandulosam, Dene. l. c. 482; Miquel l.e. Kirganelia reticulata, multi- 
flora, intermedia, Wightiana, puberula, dubia, sinensis & eglandulosa, 
Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 613, 614. K. Prieuriana, Baill. Ree. Of 
i 82. K. multiflora, Thwaites Enum. 282. Cicca reticulata, Kurz For. " 
i. 954. C. decandra, Blanco Fl. Filipp. 487. C. microcarpa, Benth. ©" 
Hongk. 312; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 355. Rhamnus zeylanicus, Burm. Thes. 
Zeyl. 198, t. 88. 
Throughout TROPICAL INDIA ; in the plains from Scind, Behar, Rohilkund, Sikkim 
and Assam, to Travancore, Malacca, Perak, the Andaman Islands, Burma and CELO]. 
—DisrriB. Tropical Africa, China, and the Malay Islands. . 
A large often scandent shrub; branchlets slender. Leaves thin, someti 
stiff, variable in size and form, base rounded acute or subcordate ; nerves 
slender; petiole -4 in.; stipules ovate-subulate, entire. Flowers male à 
subequal, about +; in. diam.; pedicels about] in. Sepals 5-6, rounded. Disk-g ruit 
variable. Ovary usually much exserted. Fruit 4—} in. diam., subgranulate. 
often racemose on the slender leafless branches. Seeds irregularly trigonous, ones 
crustaceous granulate punctulate.—The pubescent state, though the less common 
occurs throughout the range of the species. I can find no characters where Js 
distinguish P. microcarpus from reticulatus ; the lenticellate branches occur m 
those with globose and depressed.globose fruits. 
mes rather 
Sect. III. FrvEcGrorsis (see p. 286). 
is 
6. P. glaucus, Wall. Cat. 7927 A; quite glabrous, leaves 1-1; 7 
