Sauropus.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 335 
ll. S. quadrangularis, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 72, and in 
DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 242; a dwarf glabrous shrub, branchlets angled, leaves 
very shortly petioled elliptic or broadly ovate or obovate obtuse or subacute 
penninerved, sepals of male tongue-shaped obtuse, of fem. rounded or broader 
than long, fruit globose, epicarp thin bursting more or less stellately, cocci 
with a basal ventral depression on each side of whichis a tooth. ? Kurz 
For. Fl. ii. 530. S. Ceratogynum, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 635 (excl. 
citation of Wight & Thwaites); Muell. Arg. in DC. l. c. 243 (exel. many 
citations). Phyllanthus rhamnoides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 663 (not of Willd.). 
P. quadrangularis, Wild. Sp. Pl. iv. 585. P. Myrtilus, Ham. mss. P. 
tenellus, Wall. Cat. 7892 A (the large specimen only). P. Leschenaultii, B. 
tenella, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxi. 97. ? Ceratogynum rhamnoides, 
Wight Ic. t. 1900; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 234. 
NorTHERN BENAR; at Monghyr, Hamilton, COROMANDEL Coast, in culti- 
vated fields, Roxburgh. The Concan and MYSORE, Klein, Dalzell, &c.' ? BURMA; 
Common, Kurz. 
Plant about a foot high, with many slender leafy terete branches, the shoots alone 
being angled. Leaves à by 1 in., or broader, thin, nerves 4 or 5 pair, margins and those 
of the fem. sepals most minutely rough; petiole j;—,; in., very slender; stipules 
minute, ovate-lanceolate. Flowers shortly pedicelled, solitary or male and female from 
the same axil (or the males long-pedicelled and in racemes from the lower axils, 
Roxburgh), male very minute, 4; in. diam., fem. 4 in. Styles very short, on the 
Margin of a crenulate ridge that bounds the broad very concave top of the 
ovary ; arms subulate, recurved, eventually immersed in the top of the fruit. Fruit 
In. diam., depressed-globose, narrower than the enlarged calyx. Seeds Js in. long ; 
albumen scanty.—There has been confusion in respect of this plant, which is un- 
doubtedly Roxburgh’s Phyll. rhamnoides and the Ceratogynum rhamnoides of Dalzell 
and Gibson. Wight’s figure of Ceratogynum isso unsatisfactory, and differs so much in 
the broadly ovate acute leaves, the large male flowers with lanceolate acuminate sepals, 
and fem. with acute ciliolate sepals, that I have queried its identity. S. quadrangu- 
laris is Apparently a very rare plant. Mueller states that specimens are in Herb. Hook. 
from Wight, but I find none. The only ones I have seen are Wallich's single speci- 
wen on sheet 7092 A, from Herb. Hamilton; another in Hamilton’s Herbarium (in 
dinburgh Botanical Gardens), both from Monghyr, and Daizell’s from the Concan. 
f the Synonyms, &c., cited by Mueller under S. Ceratogynum, Wallich s 7892 B, cited 
as P, Leschenaultii, B. tenella, is a/ mixture of several species of Phyllanthus ; P. rotun- 
difolius, No, 7 892 D of Wallich, is, I think, a barren specimen of Breynia patens ; and 
 2acciformis, No. 7909, is Sauropus pubescens. Baillon erroneously cites W ight 
aS authority for referring Ceratogynum to Sauropus. I have seen no Burmese 
Specimens ; ` Kurz has a variety pubescens which may be the following, and probably 
18 Burmese S, quadrangularis (S. rhamnoides) is X. brevipes. 
12. S. pubescens, Hook. :; branches compressed and leaves on both 
surfaces finely tomentose, ok J small very shortly petioled elliptic sub 
Acute, calyx-lobes externally tomentose, of the male cuneately pcd 
Cane, of fem. rounded. Phyllanthus bacciformis, Herd. Ham. in Hati. 
at. 7909, 
th Eastern HIMALAYA, and along its base; the Morung, Hamilton ; Siligoree, at 
e foot of the Sikkim Hills, Clarke. . Leaves à 2 in 
ranches slender, strict, obscurely 2-winged here and there. — Le LER 
membranous, nerves 3 pairs; petiole J, in.; stipules minute. Flowers i 5 I 
the Solitary red ; pedicels } in., very slender.—Hamilton, in a ticket ne ee k 
by Specimen in Wallich’s Herbarium, queries this being P. bacciformis, which mar 
doubt is omitted in Wall. Cat. 
13. S. brevipes, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 73, and in DC. Prodr. 
Xv, di 242; quite glabrous, branchlets filiform angular, leaves shortly 
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