Phyllanthws.] cxxxv. EvPHORBIACEEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 299 
Seeds much more strongly ribbed than in its allies.— This resembles a minute rigid 
branched Niruri, and has similar styles, but is smaller in all its parts with differently 
ribbed seeds. 
96. P. debilis, Herb. Ham.; annual quite glabrous, leaves i-1 in. 
very membranous elliptic or obovate obtuse or acute, nerves 4-5 pair very 
obscure, pedicels much shorter than the leaves, sepals with broad mem- 
branous margins, filaments very short free, anthers didymous, styles short 
reflexed arms recurved, capsule minute, seeds ribbed. P. tenellus, Wall. 
Cat. 7892 G. 
NonrH-WzsT INDIA, Royle. SIKKIM and BnorAN HIMALAYA, alt. 1-3000 ft., 
Griffith, &c. BEHAR and Hazaribagh, Hamilton, Clarke. Assam and Kuasia MTS., 
Jenkins, &c., alt, 2-4000 ft, J. D. H. 4 T. T. DECCAN PENINSULA, Herb. G. 
Thomson.—Di1sTnIP. Trop. Africa. 
An erect very slender herb, 1-3 ft. high; stem terete, naked below, branched 
above, branches slender, Leaves pale green when dry, glaucous beneath, base usually 
acute; petiole ;i- in. and less; stipules membranous, lanceolate. Male fl. 3. in. 
12 
diam., very shortly pedicelled; sepals obovate-oblong; disk-glands stellately lobed ; 
filaments recurved. Fem. fl. Jy in. diam., fruiting å in. diam. ; sepals as in the male, 
but much larger, spreading in fruit. Capsule 4, in. diam., coriaceous. Seeds with 
irregular slender ribs.—Near P. Leschenaultii, but a much more slender and annual 
plant with smaller leaves, few faint nerves and much larger fem. flowers. Much 
nearer P. Niruri, but the leaves, fruit and flowers are much larger, the ribs of the 
seed irregular, the style-arms longer and recurved, and the disk-glands of the male 
lobulate.— The true P. tenellus is a Mauritian plant, cultivated in Calcutta, and is 
Wallich’s 7892 A, the left-hand specimen only, and is pentandrous. It is figured in 
Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 1569. 
37. P. rotundifolius, Klein in Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 584; annual, quite 
glabrous, stems many rigid ascending from the woody root branched, leaves 
4-t in. subsessile coriaceous orbicular or broadly obovate tip rounded or 
apiculate nerves obsolete, flowers minute males sessile fem. very shortly 
pedicelled, anthers subsessile reniform, styles minute free 2-lobed, seeds 
with equal slender ribs and cross strie. Muell. Arg. in Innnea xxxn. 43, 
and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 405. P. bacciformis & rotundifolius, Herb. 
Madr.; Wall. Cat. 7896 B. P. Niruri, Wall. Cat. 7895 A (in part). P. 
tenellus, Wall. Cat. 7892 A (in part), C. 
DECCAN PENINSULA, Klein; Coromandel coast, Roxburgh, Wight, &c. CEYLON, 
at Ballicaloa, Gardner.-—DISTRIB. Arabia, Trop. Africa. 
Stems many, 6-24 ft., stiff, terete ; branchlets compressed or angular, angles 
Sometimes minutely hirtellous. Zeaves pale when dry, glaucous beneath i . Ped 
minute; stipules minute, subulate. Male fl. 3; in. diam., very shortly pedicelled ; 
fem, igin.; fruiting } in. diam., spreading ; 
pedicel stout, not half as long as the 
leaf. Sepals oblong-obovate, with a broad white margin. Disk of male of minute 
glands, of fem. annular. Capsule 34—, in. diam., depressed-globose, smooth, scarcely 
lobed.—Mueller gives Assam as a locality, but the specimen so marked from Col. 
Jenkins is probably from the Caleutta Gardens. 
38. P. scabrifolius, Hook. f.; annual, erect, stem and branches 
angular and leaves beneath Hoek iba leaves }-} in. subsessile broadly 
elliptic or obovate tip rounded nerves distinct, flowers very shortly pedi- 
celled, stipules lanceolate serrate, filaments short united to the middle tips 
recurved, anthers reniform, styles free short reflexed arms recurved, capsule 
Smooth, seeds with 7-9 dorsal ribs and faint transverse striz. 
The Concan, Stocks. 
A leafy herb, 6-10 in., copiously branched from the base and upwards; stem 
