Phyllanthus.] cxxxv. EvPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 303 
Prodr. xv. ii. 422; quite glabrous, leaves spreading 1-13 in. ovate acuminate, 
flowers all in axillary clusters male and female together, sepals lacerately 
toothed, anthers with transverse dehiscence, ovary smooth. Reidia fim- 
briata, Wight Ic. t. 1904, f. 1. 
NirenurRI Hiris; on the western slopes, Wight. 
Quite glabrous. Leaves 13-2 by j-$ in., base obtuse, minutely pellucid-punctate, 
reticulately veined; stipules of the branches triangular ovate scarious brown, of the 
branchlets triangular-lanceolate longer acuminate. Pedicels of the male fl. half as 
long as the leaves. Outer sepals of the female not entire as in Wight's figure, but 
hardly tess lacerately toothed than the outer. Male disk of orbicular glands; fem. 
an entire cup. Styles erect.—I do not recognize this plant in Wight’s Herbarium (in 
Herb. Hook.), where Mueller states that he saw it; he says the habit is that of P. 
Baillonianus, but that the leaves are hardly inzquilateral, and the sepals are not 
entire, 
49. P. oreophilus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii 49, and in DU. 
Prodr, xv. ii. 421 ; shrubby, quite glabrous, leaves 4-3 in. broadly unequally 
oblong very unequal-sided subacute or apiculate, flowers axillary subsohtary, 
males minute pedicels equalling the leaves, anthers with transverse slits, 
em. larger pedicels much exceeding the leaves, sepals of males 4 of fem. 6 
all broad irregularly toothed, disk of male of 4 glands, of fem. urceolate, 
ovary and fruit smooth. Epistylium montanum, Thwaites Enum. 283. 
CEYLON; Central Province, Horton Plains, alt. 6-7000 ft., Gardner, Thwaites. 
Branches long, slender, terete, smooth ; branchlets very slender. Leaves very 
membranous, dark brown when dry, base acute or rounded; nerves 5-6 pair, very 
faint; petiole and subulate stipules minute. Male f. yg in. diam., of fem. larger. 
fruit } in. diam. ; cocci thinly crustaceous.—Closely resembles P. affinis, differing 
ìn the smooth fruit. The specimens are very indifferent. 
tt Fruit hirsute tubercled or scabrid. 
50. P. Wightianus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxi. 47, and in DC. 
Prodr, xy. ii. 425; shrubby, branchlets and leaves beneath tomentose, 
leaves 1-1 in. close-set drooping obliquely oblong acute or apiculate, flowers 
solitary axillary pubescent, males minute shortly pedicelled fem. long- 
Pedicelled, sepals entire ciliate, disk of separate glands in both sexes, 
anthers ovary and fruit scurfily scabrid. P. obliquus, Wall. Cat. 7947. 
Reidia floribunda, Wight Ic. t. 1903. Bradleia obliqua, Herb. Wight. 
NILGRIRI and Purxxy Hirrs, Wight, Perrottet. 
ranches terete, scarred ; branchlets long, spreading and upcurved. Leaves mem- 
Tanous, unequal -sided, pale green when dry, paler or glaucous beneath, puberulous 
above, base rounded or cuneate, rarely subeordate ; nerves 5-6 pair, very obscure ; 
Petiole and stipules minute. Male fl. 1, in. diam., pedicel } in., capillary ; sepals 4, 
‘neeolate, ciliate ; disk-glands truncate. Fem. fl. }in.diam.; pedicels 3 in., slender ; 
lanceolate, obtuse; disk-glands cuneate, 2-lobed ; ovary pubescent ; styles 
with the base in two slender arms. Capsule à in. diam., subsquamosely birsute 
th rusty short unequal bristles, cocci crustaceous, Seeds smooth.—Wight describes 
e flowers as fascicled, but figures them, as I find them, solitary. 
9l. P, cinereus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 48, and in DC. Prodr. 
RA u. 425; shrubby, branchlets tomentose, leaves }-$ in. broadly obliquely 
ep) Unequal-sided or orbicular acute or apiculate pubescent beneath 
Parsely above, flowers solitary axillary, pedicels of male shorter of fem. 
ger than the leaves, sepals ovate entire, ovary hairy, capsule rough with 
minute tubercles, Epistylium floribundum, Thwaites Enum. 283 (in part, 
ezel. syng.), 
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