ETJPHORBIACEAE. — PHYLLANTHXTS 519 



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5-6, arcuati, prope marginem elongato-conjuncti, infra prominentes; 

 venae laxe reticulatae, plerumque distinctae; petioli 3-4 mm. longi, 

 minutissime puberuli v. fere glabri; stipulae e basi triangular! lata 

 subulatae, 2-2.5 mm. longae, extra glabrae, intra parce puberulae. 

 Flores virides, monoici, axillares, fasciculati, masculi in ramulorum 

 parte inferiore, foeminei in parte superiore plerumque dispositi. Flores 

 masculi longe pedieellati; pedicelli graciles, usque ad 0.8 cm. longi, 

 glabri; sepala 6, oblonga v. oblongo-oblanceolata, obtusa, 2.5-3 mm. 

 longa, circiter 1 mm. lata, carnoso-coriacea, margine angustissime 

 hyalina, glabra; stamina 3; antherae subsessiles, apiculatae, sepalis 

 dimidio breviores. Flores foeminei breviter pedieellati; sepala 6, 

 oblonga, obtusa, 2.5 mm. longa, coriacea, glabra; ovarium multilo- 

 culare, lobulatum, glabrum; columna stylorum ovario aequilata et 

 similariter lobulata. Capsula depresso-globosa, multilobulata, cir- 

 citer 1.5 cm, diametro, sicco brunnea, glabra, basi sepalis persistentibus 

 induratis instructa, exocarpio submembranaceo, endocarpio flavescente 

 tenuiter coriaceo. Semina subtriquetra, dorso rotundata, 4.5 mm. 

 longa, nitida, rubra. 



Western Hupeh: Changlo Hsien, sides of streams, alt. 650 m., 

 May 1907 (No. 2435, $ and 9 flowers; without precise locality, June 

 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 1102; fruit). Kiangsi: Kuling, abundant 

 in thickets, 1300 m., August 1907 (No. 1600, flowers and fruit; shrub 

 2-3 m. high, flowers greenish). 



This species is very similar to G. lanceolarium Dalzell, but differs from it in having 

 smaller male flowers with only 3 stamens; the styles are also much larger than those 

 of that species, and on this account our plant should be placed near G. sphaerogynum 

 Kurz; the large calyx-lobes of the female flowers and the much lobulate column 

 of the style serve to distinguish it from that species. 



PHYLLANTHUS L. 



PhyllantJius flexuosus Miiller Arg. in De Candolle, Prodr. XV. pt. 2, 

 324 (1866). — Hemsley in Jour, Unn, Soe. XXVI. 421 (1894). 



Cicca flexuosa Siebold & Zuccarini in Abh, Akad, Munch. iV. pt. II. 143 (Fl 



Jap. Fam. Nat. I. 35) (1845). 

 Hemicicca japonica Baillon, StudeGen, Euphorh. 646 (1858). 

 Phyllanthus Japonicus Mtiller Arg. in Linnaea, XXXII. 52 (1863). 

 Glochidion flexuosum Miiller Arg. apud Miquel in Ann. Mns. Lugd.-Bat. Ill, 



128 (1867). — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI Jap. I. 426 (1875). 



Kiangsi: Kuling, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July 28, 1907 (No. 1575; 

 bush 1-2.5 m. tall). Western Hupeh: Ichang, hillsides, up to 950 



