304 CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) [Phyllanthus. 
CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 3—5000 ft., Thwaites (C.P. 2531). 
Branches slender, smooth, terete ; branchlets upeurved, finely tomentose. Leaves 
as in P. Wightianus, but less pubescent beneath, almost black above when dry and 
glaucous beneath ; nerves 5-6 pair, very faint ; petiole minute; stipules ovate-lanceo- 
late. Male fl. 4; in. diam ;pedicel } in., capillary ; sepals membranous, ovate-oblong, 
ciliate; disk-glands very large concave stipitate. Fem. fl. larger; sepals glabrous. 
Fruit about } in. long ; cocci thinly crustaceous. Seeds quite smooth. 
52. P. affinis, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 48, and in DC. Prodr. xv. 
ii. 495; shrubby, quite glabrous, leaves ł-1 in. obliquely oblong acute o! 
apiculate, flowers solitary axillary glabrous, males minute shortly pedi- 
celled, sepals rounded obscurely toothed, disk-glands of male large lobulate, 
ovary and fruit densely hirsute with rough hairs. Epistylium floribundum, 
Thwaites Enum. 283 (in part). 
CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 3-5000 ft. 
Very similar in habit, foliage and flowers to P. Wightianus, but the fruit is densely 
clothed with much longer rough hairs. 
53. P. Hamiltonianus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 75, and in 
DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 424; shrubby, slender, branchlets and leaves beneatk 
puberulous, leaves 1-13 in. elliptic or broadly ovate obtuse or acute mem- 
branous glaucons beneath, male fl. small long-pedicelled in axillary fascicles. 
fem. on longer pedicels axillary and in terminal racemes, sepals pubesceni 
at the back male 4 fem. 6 all fimbriate, fruit scabridly hispid. P. sikkim- 
ensis, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 48, and in DC. l. c. 425. Agyneia 
tetrandra, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 125; Wall. Cat. 7951. 
AssaM, Hamilton. StkK1M HIMALAYA, alt. 1-2000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. 
A small bush, branches terete. Leaves very membranous, pale green when dry, 
paler beneath, base cuneate or rounded, nerves 5-7 pair very faint; petiole jg in. 
stipules ovate and subulate, caducous. Male fl. ji, in. diam.; pedicels capillary. 
15-4 in., springing from minute clusters of bracts; sepals rounded, deeply toothed; 
disk dilated, deeply 4-lobed ; staminal column very short. Fem. fl. 3 in. diam.; 
pedicel very slender, longer than the leaves, curved. Sepals less deeply toothed than 
in the male, hardly enlarged in fruit; disk saucer-shaped; ovary 4-celled ; styles 4, 
subulate, erect. Fruit 3 in. diam., globose, rufous with rough hairs ; cocci crus- 
teens Mueller describes the sepals of the fem. as entire, but I find them strongly 
toothed. 
Sect. VIII. Crcca (see p. 287). 
54. P. distichus, Mue/l. Avg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 4135; a tree. 
quite glabrous, with very robust branches and slender leafy branch- 
lets, leaves pinnately distichous 2-3 in. petioled obliquely ovate acute. 
flowers minute densely clustered, clusters axillary or in slender racemes from 
the thick branches shortly pedicelled. Beddome Forester’s Man. 191. t, 
Cheremila, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 114. P. longifolius, Jacq. Hort. Schenbr. Y. 
36, t. 194; Roawb, Fl. Ind. in. 672. P. Cicca, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxi 
50. P.tetrandrus, Wall.Cat. 7930. Cicca disticha, Linn. Mant. 194 ; Lamk. 
Ill. ii. t. 757, f. 1; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl.180; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL. 
Suppl. 78; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 353.— Rheede Hort. Mal. iii. t. 47, 48. 
In Gardens throughout INDIA.—DISTRIB. Malay Islands, Madagascar. 
A deciduous tree, 20-30 ft.; brauches as thick as the finger; bark very rough, 
grey ; leafy branchlets 1-2 ft., terete below, angular above. Leaves rather mem 
branous; pale beneath, base usually rounded ; nerves 5-8 pair, arched; petiole ;5 s 
stipules toothed. Flowers most densely clustered, 4, in. diam., occasionally 2-sexun > 
sometimes 3—4-merous ; pedicels capillary, 3-3 in. Sepals orbicular. Disk of male 
