300 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Phyllanthus. 
and primary branches stout, ultimate short, all angled; the angles as well as the 
leaves beneath hispidulous with white hairs. Leaves pale when dry, rather thick, 
nerves 4-5 pair distinct on both surfaces ; petiole minute ; stipules white, membranous, 
lanceolate. Male fl. 4^. in. diam., fem. rather larger, pedicels of both 41;—; in. Sepals 
oblong obtuse with broad white margins; fem. a little enlarged and reflexed after 
fruiting. Disk of male of rounded glands; of fem. a low crenate cup; anther-cells 
at length confluent. Capsule} in., depressed globose, 3-lobed, minutely granulate. 
Seeds very broad, sides with concentric ribs.—A very distinct plant, near P. Nirurt, 
but with scaberulous branches and leaves, much larger flower and fruit, reflexed 
sepals after fruiting, and very different seeds. 
Sect. VII. REIDI (see p. 286). 
* Leaves 2-5 in. Sepals entire or lacerate. Ovary glabrous, smooth. 
. 89. P. elegans, Wall. Cat. 7926; shrubby, quite glabrous, leaves 3-4 
in. ovate- or oblong-lanceolate finely acuminate, male fl. shortly pedicelled 
in clusters on the branches, fem. in terminal racemes, sepals of male 4 of 
fem. 6 all lacerate, fruit smooth. Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 46, and in. 
DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 420. 
TENASSERIM; at Moolmayne, Mergui and Amherst, Wallich, &c. 
Branches terete. Leaves coriaceous, glaucous or brown beneath, base acute or 
rounded, margins recurved; nerves 5-6 pair, very faint; petiole ~} in. ; stipules 
subulate. Male fl. 3, in. diam., densely clustered; pedicels 7,-} in., capillary; 
sepals 4, fimbriate; glands cup-shaped; anthers 2, didymous. em. fl. solitary m 
the axils of lanceolate bracts forming a terminal distichous raceme ; flowering pedicels 
4 in., fruiting 1-14 in.; sepals 6, unequal, lacerate, equalling the male in flower, 
fruiting much enlarged. Fruit } in. diam. or more; cocci coriaceous. Seeds } in. 
long, finely transversely striolate. 
40. P. Baillonianus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxi. 47, and in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 422; shrubby, quite glabrous, leaves 11-2 in. ovate acuminate 
pale beneath, male fl. axillary long-pedicelled solitary or few together, fem. 
axillary and in terminal racemes, sepals entire, fruit smooth. Epistylium 
cordifolium, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 648. E. latifolium, Thwaites 
Enum. 283 (excl. syn.). . 
CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 2-4000 ft., Gardner, Thwaites. 
A bush, 3-4 ft., branches terete. Leaves membranous, green when dry, base un- 
equal rounded rarely subcordate, often marbled with broad white or brown beneath; ' 
nerves 10-12 pair, very spreading ; petiole 1, in. ; stipules minute, subulate. Male fl- 
iin. diam. ; pedicels capillary, 3-4 in. ; sepals 4, orbicular, entire; disk of 2 very 
large dilated reniform fleshy tuberculate lobes; anthers forming 2-lipped ends of à 
fleshy cross. Fem. fl. much smaller, axillary or from an axillary short bracteate 
peduncle; sepals concave, entire, much enlarged in fruit; disk large, dilated, fleshy, 
convex, tubercled, 6-lobed; styles short, cleft to the base into slender segments. 
Fruit X in. long. Seeds } in. long.— The disk is very remarkable. This is certainly 
not the Travancore plant figured by Wight (Ic. t. 1904, f. 3 (2 in text) as Rea 
latifolia. 
4l. P. Roxburghii, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 47, and in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 420; shrubby, branches crisply puberulous, leaves glabrous 
1-3} in. lanceolate subacute or acuminate, male and fem. fl. densely fas 
cicled in the axils or on the branchlets, pedicels of both capillary, sepals ? 
male pectinately fimbriate of fem. serrate, ovary smooth. P. tetran Ej 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 674; Wall. Cat. 7936. Epistylium Roxburghii, Baw". 
Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 648. 
