Phyllanthus.] ^ cxxxv. EUPHORBIACER. (J. D. Hooker.) 289 
shortly petioled membranous elliptie or oblong acute obtuse or apiculate, 
flowers dicecious axillary pedicelled, pedicel clavate at the tip, sepals of both 
sexes broadly oblong, berry small globose. Muell. Arg. in Lannea xxxii. 14. 
P. flueggeiformis, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 349. P. griseus, Wall. 
Cat. 7918 A in part. 
CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich. Sikkim, J. D. H., Kurz, 
&c. Buoran, Griffth. Kuasta HILLS,on Shillong, alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T., 
Clarke.—DısTRIB. China. 
A shrub with terete divaricate branches and very slender branchlets. Zeaves 
blackish when dry, very thin, subglaucous beneath, base acute; nerves 8-10 pair, very 
slender; petiole ,!,—7; in., very slender; stipules narrow, membranous. Flowers 
ts in. diam., solitary or fascicled ; pedicels }-}in. Disk of male 6 globose glands; 
of fem. a very inconspicuous ring. Ovary ovoid; styles exserted, more or less connate 
at the base. Fruit 4-4 in. diam., usually purple, styles persistent.—This closely re- 
sembles P. reticulatus in habit, but is easily distinguished by the long simple styles, 
free stamens, and clavate tip of the fem. pedicel. The Chinese specimens are from 
the Province of Kiu Kiang (Maries) ; they have rather longer styles. 
Sect. IV. Emstica (see p. 286). 
7. P. Emblica, Linn. Sp. Pl. 982; a large tree, branchlets glabrous 
or finely pubescent, leaves 1—l in. distichously close-set subsessile linear- 
oblong obtuse, flowers densely fascicled along the branchlets males pedi- 
celled, fem. few subsessile, anthers free, stigmas very large twice 2-fid, fruit 
depressed -globose Lin. fleshy. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 352; Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. iii. 671; Wall. Cat. 7903; Brand. For. Fl. 454, t. 52; Grah. Cat. 
Bomb. Pl. 180; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 351; Beddome Flor. Sylvat. 
t. 258; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 312; Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 627, t. 24, 
f 20-24; Lodd. Bot. Cub. t. 548. ? P. taxifolius, Don Prodr. 63. P. glo- 
meratus, Herb. Roxb. Emblica officinalis, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 122, t. 108; 
Wight Te. t. 1896; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 235; A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 
108, t. 5, f. 15. Cicca Emblica, Kurz For. FI. à. 352. Dichelastina 
nodicaulis, Hance in Walp. Ann. iii. 367.—Rheede Hort. Mal.i. t. 38. 
Throughout TROPICAL INDIA, wild or planted, from the base of the Himalaya, 
Tom Jummoo eastwards, and southwards to CEYLON and Maracca.—DisrRiB. Malay 
Islands, China. 
A deciduous tree ; bark flaking conchoidally ; branchlets slender, pubescent. Leaves 
equal and symmetrically set, like the leaflets of a pinnate leaf, glabrous or puberulous 
beneath ; stipules scarious, lacerate. Flowers yellow, racemed on the branches. 
Sepals 5-6, obovate-oblong. Staminal column short. Disk of male obsolete, ot fem. 
a lacerate cup. Ovary globose ; styles connate at the base ; arms recurved, very large, 
dilated and twice branched. Fruit obscurely 6-lobed, 
8. P. albizzioides, Hook. f.; a tree, branchlets puberulous, leaves 
l by 4 in. distichously close-set subsessile oblong or elliptic rarely orbicular 
Slabrous glaucous beueath, flowers minute subracemose, males pedicelled, 
em. subsessile, styles 2-cleft lobes broad entire, fruit globose 1 in. diam. 
fleshy © P. pubescens, Wail. mss. Cicca albizzioides, Kurz For. Fl ii. 352. 
BURMA; at P lich. Prav; up to 2000 ft., Kurz, Brandis. 
Branches very slendec, pubescent. Leaves 1 by 4 in. or smaller, rounded at both 
ends ; nerves 7-io pair, very slender. Cocci bony, with a long pungent apex. 
9. P. Pomiferus, Hook.f. ; a shrub or tree, branchlets pubescent, leaves 
id 1n.long distichously close-set subsessile narrowly linear coriaceous acute or 
obtuse glabrous margins subreflexed, flowers subracemose, rachis pubescent, 
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