Phyllanthus.] cxxxv. gvPHomBrAcEm. (J. D. Hooker.) 291 
Seeds not seen.—Mueller describes the styles of P. Lawii as connate for nearly } 
their length, but they are free, very short, with very short thick lobes, as he has 
correctly described them under P. juniperinoides. 
13. P. hakgalensis, Thwaites mss. in Trimen Syst. Cat. Plant. Ceyl. 
80; shrubby, quite glabrous, leaves 3-3? in. sessile oblanceolate or linear- 
oblong acute coriaceous nerves very obscure, pedicels capillary longer than 
the leaves, flowers axillary solitary males } fem. } in. diam., anthers free 
broadly oblong obtuse column slender, styles spreading cleft to the middle, 
capsule globose smooth enclosed in the enlarged sepals. 
CEYLON ; at Hakgalle, Thwaites. 
Branches terete, woody, scarred. Leaves scattered round the branches, close set. 
Sepals of both sexes broadly oblong, membranous. Disk of male of 6 rounded 
glends, of fem. a thick cushion. Capsule 3-4 in. diam.—1 have seen only one small 
Specimen, 
14 P. nemorum, Russell in Wall. Cat. 7897 B; shrubby, quite 
glabrous, leaves lin. sessile linear-oblong apiculate nerves distinct, flowers 
axillary solitary shortly pedicelled, staminal column equalling the connate 
obtuse anthers, styles long slender connate at the base with capitate notched 
tips. Muell. Arg.in Linnea xxxiv. 70, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 358. 
The Deccan? Konig, in Herb. Russell. . . 
Branches terete, leafy branchlets 2 in., very slender, horizontal. Leaves $ in. 
road, coriaceous, brown when dry, nerves 5-6 pair; stipules subulate. Male fl. zin. 
diam. ; pedicels capillary, about equalling the sepals ; sepals oblong ; fem, fl. 4 in. 
diam., pedicel stouter, shorter than the narrower sepals; disk annular. Ovary glo- 
se, glabrous, shorter than the erect recurved styles.—The styles are very peculiar. 
allich’s specimen is a solitary one, without fruit. On the back of the sheet is 
written, “ Phyllanthus nemorum, fruticosus foliis bifariis simpliciter pinnatis, pinnis 
linearibus, fructu baccato exsucco tricocco parvo, ex spec. Kon." 
15. P. boeobotryoides, Wall. Cat. 7942; shrubby, quite glabrous, 
leaves 2-4 in, sessile ovate- or oblong-lanceolate acute acuminate or caudate, 
Owers in slender axillary spikes or racemes, sepals of male 5-6 orbicular of 
em. oblong-lanceolate obtuse, anthers erect large acute free terminating the 
Staminal column, stylar column long straight. Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxi. 
15, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 354; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 348. 
Strut, Wallich, Griffith. TENASSERIM, Helfer. 
, Branches woody, teret, branchlets long, slender, compressed and angled. Leaves 
thinly coriaceous, brown when dry, shining above; nerves 6-8 pairs, slender ; petiole 
minute or O; stipules minute, Jéacemes or spikes solitary or 2-nate, very slender, 
shorter than the leaves; bracts minute; flowers solitary or clustered; males shortly 
celled, 1; in. diam., with spreading sepals, and disk of 5-6 glands; fem. larger, 
With erect narrower sepals and an obscure disk. Anthers as long as or longer than 
e column of filaments, lanceolate ; connective produced, acute. Stylar column as long 
P: the Ovary, longer than the 2-partite recurved lobes which are linear-clavellate. 
ruit not seen, but described by Kurz as a more or less woody capsule. 
16. P. columnaris, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 15, and in DC, 
Prodr, xv. ii. 334; a tree, branchlets finely tomentose, leaves 1-2 in. elliptic 
or oblong obtuse or apiculate, flowers densely clustered in leafless terminal 
racemes, sepals of male oblong glabrous of fem. ovate tomentose, anthers 
gorte obtuse terminating a very long slender column, stylar column short, 
“rz For. Fl ii. 347. P. tetrandrus, Roxb. ?, Wall. Cat. 7930. 
Peev to Tenasserim, Wallich, Grifith, Helfer. 
