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upper margin with 6 lobes alternating with the perianth-segments, in all 

 1.5 mm in diameter; styles 3, 2-forked almost to the base, the arms slender, 

 over 1 mm long : capsule brown, depressed-globose, 3 mm in diameter, 

 3- or less evidently 6-grooved, 3-celled, with 2 seeds in each cell, testa 

 brown, covered with minute papillae disposed in longitudinal lines. 



A small shrub 3 m high, the branchlets narrowly 2-winged and the 

 smaller ones slightly compressed, between the wings densely but minutely 

 pubescent: leaves alternate, distichous, borne on minutely pubescent 

 petioles less than 1 mm long, the lamina chartaceous, glabrous, lanceolate 

 or elliptic, 2-3.5 cm long, 6—9 mm wide, the margins revolute, the apex 

 obtuse, usually mucronulate, toward the base narrowed, at the extreme 

 base rounded and often slightly inequilateral; primary lateral veins on 

 each side of the midrib 9-11 ; stipules membranaceous, 2 mm long, hastate 

 and produced below the base of the petiole, the apices very acute. 



Luzo.v, Province of Nueva Viscaya, Cordon, Merrill 16): Province of Tayabas, 

 Lucena, Merrill 2885. Negros, Gimagaan River, Fur. Bur. ^301 Everett (type). 



Allied to P. simplex Retz. Male flowers of this species greatly resemble those 

 of P. samarensis Muell.-Arg., of which a portion of the original collection is in 

 this herbarium, but it seems to be distinguishable not only by its winged stems 

 but also by the wider stipules (1 mm at the fork), which are also more strongly 

 produced downward; the leaves are larger and somewhat different in shape, 

 though similar at the base. It is also close to P. myrtifolius Wight, but differs 

 in the same characters as just noted. 



N. v. Miagos, Vis., Negros. 



11. Phyllanthus simplex Retz. Obs. Bot. 5 (1789) 29. 



Luzon, Province of Pangasinan, Bur. Sci. J f 837 Ramos: Province of Bulacan, 

 Norzagaray, Yoder 195: Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 1182 Ramos; 

 Manila, Merrill 3'f33, Philip. Normal School 68 Arcebal, Hallier s. n,; Diliman, 

 Marave 100. Mindoro, Puerto Galera, Merrill 33'$ . Mindanao, District of 

 Davao, Davao, Copeland 605; Darong, Williams 2611 A. 



Manchuria to India and Polynesia. 



12. Phyllanthus niruri Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 981. 

 P. carolinianus Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 691. 



P. kirganelia Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 480, non Willd. Sp. PI. 4 (1805) 

 587. 



Batanes Islands, Batan Island, Santo Domingo de Basco, Bur. Sci. 3122 Fenix. 

 Luzon, Province of Pampanga, Bacolor, Parker 18: Province of Bulacan, Mey- 

 cauayan, Marave 48: Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 10^8 Ramos; Manila, 

 Merrill 12, 356, 3^79, Philip. Normal School 121 Pineda: Province of Cavite, 

 Cavite, Bur. Sci. 153 Foxvcorthy: Province of Laguna, Calauan, Gaming 717: 

 Province of Tayabas, Atimonan, Gregory 30. Panay, Iloilo, Copeland s. n. 

 Palawan, Puerto Princesa, For. Bur. > t 178 Curran, Mindanao, Lake Lanao, 

 Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens s. n.: District of Davao, Davao, Copeland 571; 

 Santa Cruz, Williams 275Jj. 



Blanco's species, the specific name changed in the second edition, has been 

 generally reduced to P. niruri. The description does not entirely fit, but is 

 nearer to that of this species than of any other. 



N.v. Sampasampalucan, Tag., Manila, Rizal: Iba-iba-an, Tag., Bulacan. 



Cosmopolitan in the Tropics, except of Australia. 

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