Phyllanthus.)  cxxxv. EvPHonBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 293 
654; Wight Ic. t. 1895, £. 3; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pi. 180; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fi. 933; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 311, and FI. Austral. vi. 103. P. 
andrachnoides, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 575. P. obcordatus, Willd. Enum. Hort. 
Berol. Suppl. 65; Roxb, Fl. Ind. ii. 656; Wall. Cat. 7906. P. javanicus, 
Poir.; Spreng. Syst. iii. 91. P. anceps, Herb. Heyne. P. linearis, Herb. 
Madr, P. malabaricus, Herb. Wight. P. Niruri, Wall. Cat. 7894. 
Drier parts of INDIA ; from BANDA, Edgeworth, throughout the DECCAN PENIN- 
SULA to CEYLON.—DISTRIB. Trop. Africa, Arabia, Java, China, Australia. 
Very variable in habit, erect or decumbent below ; stems low and herbaceous or 
erect, slender, woody with spreading branches and sometimes? a woody perennial 
stock. Leaves from % in. and cuneate or almost obcordate to 14 in., and narrowly 
oblong-cuneate; nerves few, slanting ; petiole minute; stipules lanceolate membranous. 
M ale fl. 3; in. diam., usually fascicled with one much larger fem. ; fem. 44; in. diam. in 
fruit. Sepals rounded or obcuneate. Disk of glands in both sexes. Anthers almost 
sessile on the column, erect, apiculate. Fruit dry, in. diam., globose.— Mueller distin- 
guishes four varieties by the size and form of the leaves, but they pass into one another. 
Roxburgh describes his obcordatus as suffruticose; itis a tall slender form with woody 
stems and long branches. 
21. P. Eheedii, Wight Ic. t. 1895, f£. 1; annual, quite glabrous, leaves 
1-1} in. subsessile elliptic or subovate apiculate, stipules not peltate, 
flowers axillary males very minute fem. larger longer pedicelled, sepals 
oblong green with narrow white margins, filaments free above, styles short 
2-partite, seeds remotely striated. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 363. 
* flaccidus, Thwaites Enum. 283. 
NirGuini Hırs, Wight; alt. 6000 ft., Clarke. Cxyton; in the Central Province, 
alt. 4—7000 ft. 
Diffusely branched from the base and above, 1-3 ft. high; branches terete. Leaves 
membranous, dark brown when dry, not glaucous beneath, nerves very faint; petiole 
re in. ; stipules lanceolate. Flowers a few males on short capillary pedicels, and one 
fem. on a longer stouter pedicel, the latter in fruit 4 in. diam. Sepals oblong. 
Disk-glands of male large, lobulate ; of fem. linear, quite distinct. Filaments free 
above and spreading ; anthers globose, not apiculate. Styles slender. Capsule $ in. 
diam., globose, hardly 3-lobed, almost membranous. Seeds with rather distant longi- 
tudinal very slender ridges and minute cross-lines.—Wight’s figure is not accurate, 
Dor does it accord with his specimens ; the filaments are quite free, and diverge above ; 
the fem. disk is not cupular, as figured by him and described by Mueller, but of linear 
glands ; and the fem. pedicel is much too long. Wight suggests this being Rheede’s 
Niruri, which Mueller rightly doubts. Rheedeis not likely to have had a Nilghiri or 
Ceylon plant. 
22. P. urinaria, Linn. Sp. Pl. 982; annual, rarely perennial, gla- 
brous or nearly so, stem and branches angled, leaves }-} in. sessile disti- 
chously imbricate oblong or linear-oblong tip rounded or apiculate, 
stipules peltate, flowers very minute axillary subsessile, sepals ciliolate, 
ments very short free, ovary densely granulate, styles short free 2-fid, 
fruit echinate, seeds transversely furrowed. Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxn. 
19, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 364; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 660; Wall. Cat. 7893 ; 
Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 180; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 310, and Fl. Austral. vi. 
02. P, leprocarpus, Wight Ic. t. 1895, f. 4. P. alatus, Blume Dijd. 594. 
; Cantoniensis, Hornem. Hort. Haffn. 910. P. mucronatus & racemosus, 
erb. Heyne. P. muricatus & P. polyphyllus, Herb. Madr. P. echinatus, 
Herb. Ham.—Rheede Hort. Mal. x. 16. 
Throughout Inpra ; from the PansaB to ASSAM, BURMA, MALACCA, PENANG. 
aud CEYLON.— DrsTRIB. T ropics generally. 
