302 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker)  [Phyllanthus. 
side, leaves 3 in. glaucous erect imbricating obliquely obovate-oblong acute 
or apiculate, flowers solitary, male and fem. subequal, pedicels capillary, 
sepals laciniate, ovary smooth. Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 49, and in 
DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 421. P. pallidifolius, Muell. Arg. in DO. 1. c. 424. P. 
Zollingeri, Muell. Arg. in Linnea l. c. 47. P. pallidus, Muell. Arg. in DC. 
l. c. 983 (under Zollingeri). Epistylium pulchrum & glaucescens, Baill. 
Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 648. Reidia glaucescens, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ù. 
374; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5437. Eriococcus glaucescens, Morr. 4 Zoll. mss. 
Matacca, Griffith, Maingay. SINGAPORE, Murton, &c. PENANG, Wallich, 
Curtis.— DISTRIB. Siam, Java. . 
Branches very stout, strict, terete, branchletsslender. Leaves subsecund, margins 
somewhat thickened, nerves very obscure; stipules ovate-lanceolate, some with long 
flexuous points. Pedicels }-1 ïn., males in the lower axils. Flowers } in. diam., 
white with a purple eye; sepals deeply lacerate. Disk of male of 4 reniform glands, 
of fem, thick annular crenate ; styles cleft to the base into 2 filiform segments. Fruit 
not seen. 
46. P. longiflorus, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 7905; shrubby, quite gla- 
brous, leaves 4—# in. obliquely oblong or obovate-oblong subacute or apicu- 
late, flowers subsolitary, pedicels slender, sepals entire of male ovate-oblong 
of fem. lanceolate obtuse, staminal column long slender, ovary smooth. 
Heyneanus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii.49. P. nephradenius, Muell. Arg. 
in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 423. P. tenellus, Wall. Cat. 7892 B. Episty lium 
phyllanthoides, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 648. ? Reidia ovalifolia, Wight 
Jc. 1904, f. 3 (by error 2 in text). 
DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne. Travancore, at Courtallam, Wight. 
Branchlets slender, spreading. Leaves spreading, unequal-sided, pale brown when 
dry, glaucous beneath; nerves very faint; petiole minute; stipules very minute. 
Male fl. } in. diam. ; pedicel rather longer, capillary ; sepals membranous. Fem. fi. 
} in. diam. ; pedicels stouter, } in.; disk small; styles divided to the base into slender 
arms, Fruit } in. long, smooth.—Heyne's name of longiflorus, in allusion to the 
narrow fem. sepals, which are conspicuously elongate when reflexed from the fruit, 15 
unobjectionable. Mueller has referred Wight’s Reidia ovalifolia to ‘this, but the 
leaves on the branch figured are not only (as Wight observes) too small, but far too 
narrow ; the separate leaf at fig. 8 is more acuminate, but the petiole is much too long ; 
the ovary does not taper into the styles, and the male disk is annular and 4-lobed, 
not of separate glands removed from the staminal column as in its allies. More 
specimens are required to clear up this point. 
47. P. anabaptizatus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii 421 ; 
leafing branches obscurely puberulous, leaves 4 in. sessile erect imbricating 
obliquely oblong obtuse or apiculate, flowers axillary solitary, males 00 
short fem. on long pedicels, sepals of male orbicular subentire of fem. broadly 
ovate irregularly toothed, anthers with transverse dehiscence, ovary 
smooth. P. zeylanicus, Muell. in Linnea xxxii. 49. Reidia polyphylla, 
Wight Te. t. 1904, f. 4. Epistylium polyphyllum, Zhwaites Enum. 283. E- 
zeylanicum, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 648. 
CEYLON; Adams Peak, alt. 5000 ft.. Thwaites. 
A low shrub. Branches stout, strict, terete; branchlets slender, jointed on the 
branch. Leaves sometimes somewhat falcate, nerves obscure ; stipules entire, minute, 
ovate-lanceolate. Male fl. 1; in. diam., pedicels } in., disk of 4 glands; fem. $ ™ 
diam., pedicels 4 in., disk annular, crenate. Styles cleft to the base into 2 slender 
segments, Fruit 2 in. diam., quite smooth. 
48. P. fimbriatus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxi. 47, and in D C. 
