298 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker) [Phyllanthus 
+t Herbs. 
33. P. pendulus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 663; biennial, suffruticose, 
erect, quite glabrous, branchlets filiform very long drooping, leaves } In. 
distichous subsessile narrowly elliptic-lanceolate acute, flowers axillary very 
shortly pedicelled springing from short peduncles clothed with decussata y 
imbricating entire bracts, anthers 3, filaments united above the middle, 
styles reflexed arms recurved. 
BENGAL; very rare, Roxburgh. les 
Stem 2-3 ft., branches twiggy. Leaves with red margins. Bracteate pedune | 
when fully grown half as long as the leaves ; bracts white, acute, membranous. Sepa f 
broadly ovate, acute, of female hardly enlarged and not reflexed in fruit. De a 
male broad, 6-lobed, of fem. crenate. Capsule +, in. depressed globose.—A remar pov 
plant, described from Roxburgh's Flora and his drawing at Kew. He states that e 
flowers are altogether like those of P. Niruri, but his figure of the sepals is very 
different, as aretheanthers. Mueller, probably by an oversight, says he has seen speci- 
mens, 
34. P. Niruri, Linn. Sp. Pl.981; annual, quite glabrous, leaves ri 
in. membranous subsessile elliptic-obovate oblong or linear tip ron ad 
obtuse or acute, nerves few obscure, flowers minute shortly pedice ed, 
sepals 5-6, of male orbicular, anthers 3 sessile on a short column didymon’ 
styles minute very short free 2-lobed, capsule minute, seeds with et 
slender ribs and transverse strie. Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxu. 43, ai 
in DC. Prodr. xv. ii: 406; Rowb. Fl. Ind. ii. 659; Grah. Cat. Bomb. : 
180; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 234; Thwaites Enum. 282; Wall. Cat. 789 
(excl. part of A); Wight Ic. t. 1894. P. urinaria, Herd. Russ. P. Lor 
phali, Herb. Madr. P. polyphyllus, Herb. Wight. Nymphanthus Niruri, 
D] 
Lour. Fl. Coch. 545.— Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 93.—Rheede Hort. Mal. x. t- 15. 
Throughout the hotter parts of India; from the PANJAB to AssaM, und southward 
to TRAYANCOR, MaraccA and CEYLON, ascending the hills to 3000 ft, —DISTRIB. 
Tropics generally, except Australia. 
A weed, 6-18 in. high, branched from the base, with an erect stem naked — 
and slender leafy angular branches above. Zeaves variable, pale green, ofte ý 
distichously imbricating, glaucous beneath ; petiole minute; stipules subulate. F touer 
very numerous, males solitary and 2-nate 2, in. diam., almost sessile; fem. Ts aite 
diam. Sepals of male orbicular, of fem. narrowly obovate-oblong with broad w ds; 
margins, not enlarged in fruit, spreading, not reflexed. Disk of male of minute glands; 
of fem. annular, lobed. Capsule 3;—j3 in. diam., depressed-globose, smooth, ha » 
lobed, thinly crustaceous. Seeds with equal parallel slender ribs and faint cross sn of 
—As Mueller observes, Thomson’s specimens (from Moradabad) have hirtellous tips 
the branchlets ; this is just as in P. urinaria and scabrifolius. 
35. P. nanus, Hook. f., annual, quite glabrous, stems rigid short 
prostrate or ascending, leaves ġ in. petioled oblong obtuse, nerves obscu™ 
flowers very minute shortly pedicelled, sepals ovate-oblong outer acut 
anthers sessile on a short column didymous, styles minute free reflexed very 
short, capsules minute, seeds with strong parallel and transverse ribs. 
BURMA ; at Tsegau, Griffith. : d re- 
Root stout, tortuous, woody. Stem or branches 4-8 in., with spreading an ris 
curved leafy slender branchlets. eaves the smallest of Indian species, rather Pis 
ceous, base rounded; nerves 3-4 pair, obscure; petiole minute; stipules mi" 
subulate. Flowers very minute; males 4i in. diam., fem. 45 with a thickened with 
about as long, in fruit 5i. in. diam., and not reflexed. Sepals 5-6, coriaceous i 
pale margins. Disk in both sexesof glands ; glands of male pedicelled ; of fem. 
erect. Styles thick, 2-lobed. Capsule 4 in. diam., globose, smooth, crusta 
