654 . MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, Phyllanihus. 
tached to the upper end of the axis. Capsule* three-celled ; 
cells two-seeded. Embryo inverse, and furnished with a pe- 
risperm, 
SECT. I. With simple Leaves. 
1. P. madraspatensis, Willd. iv. 575. 
Annual, erect. Leaves alternate, narrow-cuneate. Flowers 
axillary ; male monadelphous ; anthers three pair. 
Teling. Nala userekee. 
Is common, with P. Miruri, in gardens, and cultivated 
ground, Plants constantly succeed one another, and flower 
most part of the year. 
Root annual, though sometimes it lives out the second 
year, Stem straight, in the oldest plants somewhat woody, 
from one to four feet high, round, smooth, above very 
ramous. . Branches sub-erect, often twiggy in large plants. 
Leaves on the stem scattered ; on the branches alternate, bi- : 
farious, spreading, sessile; in a good soil those on the stem 
are linearly lanceolate, the rest wedge-formed , smooth, entire, 
somewhat pointed, from half an inch to two inches long, and 
from one-eighth to half an inch broad. Stipules two, letctak 
at the cordate base, pointed, withering, owers axillary, 
always one female, and from two to four or five males, all are 
short-peduncled, but the male shortest, in the flowering time 
erect, afterwards the male drops, and the female is bent down. 
_ Male calyx six-leaved. Nectary six-scaled. Filaments sin- 
gle. Anthers three pair round its apex. Female calyx and 
nectary as in the male, Capsule three-celled, six-valved, with 
two seeds in each cell, 
Taste herbaceous, with some degree of astringency. Cat- 
tle eat it. 
2. P. simplex. Willd. iv. 573. 
Perennial, diffuse, branches flattened. Leaves bifarious, 
* In many of the species it is a very perfect berry. 
