Breynia.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 331 
7914. P. cinerascens, Wall. Cat. 7915 C. P. virosus, Herb. Wight in 
Wall. Cat. 7939 C. P. oblongifolius, Dennast. in Dillw. Rev. Hort. Mal. 24. 
P. tinctorius, Vahl mss. (ex Baill.). 
Throughout TROPICAL INDIA; from OupH, Hamilton, and BANDA, Edgeworth, 
eastwards to UPPER AssaM and BURMA, and southwards to TRAVANCORE, MALACCA, 
SINGAPORE and Ceyton.—Disrrie, China, Malay Islands, Philippines. 
A shrub or small tree; branches horizontal, flexuous, bifarious, Leaves 3-1 in., 
dark brown or black when dry, pale beneath; petiole 455 in.; stipules minute, 
Flowers often dicecious ?, 4-45 in. long; pedicels usually decurved, variable in 
length. Staminal column truncate. Ovary exserted; styles very obscure. Fruit in. 
diam., red, succulent. Seeds & in. long; testa imperforate except at the very base.— 
Very near B. cernua of the Malay Archipelago, but. the fem. calyx is much smaller. 
Edgeworth's Banda specimens have not blackened in drying. Mueller and others 
describe the male fl, as springing from minute branchlets densely clothed with bracts, 
but this is only occasionally the case. 
5. B. discigera, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 440; finely 
tomentose, leaves shortly petioled elliptic rounded or ovate acute or sub- 
acute. flowers solitary very shortly pedicelled, male calyx turbinate or hemi- 
spheric outer margin of tube entire, fem. rotate shortly 6-lobed pubescent all 
over, ovary turbinate stigmas minute, fruit seated on the slightly enlarged 
pubescent calyx crowned with a raised ring. B. rhamnoides, y. pubes- 
cens, Muell. Arg. L c. 441. Phyllanthus pubescens, Wall. Cat. 7917 A, B. 
PENANG, Wallich, Curtis. SINGAPORE, Jaeger, Cantley.— DISTRIB. Siam, 
ranches and branchlets terete. Leaves 2-1} in., thinly coriaceous, black above 
when dry, beneath paler or glaucous, sparsely pubescent above, shortly tomentose 
neath; nerves 4-6 pair; petiole 44,45 in. Flowers subsolitary, minnte ; males, 
js in. long, about as long as their pedicels ; tube pubescent, teeth inflexed glabrous ; 
fem. subsessile, 1 in. diam., lobes very shallow, apiculate. — Stamina? column fusiform. 
truncate, Ovary with a convex top. Fruit globose, 3-3 in. diam., coriaceous; cocci 
With a small basal hole, Seeds 4 in. long. —Wallich's 7917 C is a very different plant, 
math rounded subcordate leaves, from Burma (Kayouk Talong); it is neither in flower 
nor fruit. 
6. B. reclinata, Hook. f.; quite glabrous, branches long divaricate, 
leaves shortly petioled coriaceous elliptic ovate subacute very glaucous 
eneath, flowers shortly pedicelled, calyx of male hemispheric thickened 
month of tube 6-crenate, of fem. turbinate shortly 6-lobed, ovary truncate, 
ruit small seated on the small calyx. B. rhamnoides, var. hypoglauca, 
uell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 73, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 440. B. race- 
mosa, Muell, Arg. in DC. l. c. 441 in part. Melanthesa r-clinata, Muell. 
Arg. in Linnea 1. c. 74. Phyllanthus reclinatus, Roxb. FI. Ind. in. 669. 
Dil GArORE and Maracca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4813, Maingay 1356), &c.— 
TRIB, Sumatra, Java. 
subseandent shrub. black when dry, branches and long branchlets terete, decurved. 
: : : in.: sti ninute. Flowers 
vell tt 1-1} in.; nerves 4-6 pairs; petiole j';—5 m. ; stipules outh contracted : 
. 1 Y Li 
p °W, On short usually decurved pedicels; males yẹ in. long, mou , 
fem, p ; ‘ate, Ovary exserted 
- rather la i I a}ig taminal column truncate, 4 ed, 
irger, broadly funnel-shaped. S Sds i. 
truncate, stigmas min vui } in. diam., globose, depressed, red. ae ig In 
ong, with a trianguli basal. vewttal cavity Muellers B. racemosa is a mixture ; it 
jy utains Zolinger's No. 177 from Java, which is undoubtedly B. reclinata, and I 
ence assume that the Singapore plant referred to racemosa 15 also reclinata ; but 
Olinger’s No, 176, with a much smaller fruit and a much enlarged calyx, is quite a 
erent species, possibly B. virgata, Mueller has, in DC. Prodr., erroneously referred 
xburgh’s P. reclinatus to the Chinese Breynia (Melanthesopsis) fruticosa (Melan- 
Siam, chinensis, Blume), together with Wallich's No. 7925, which is a third plant from 
