658 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA.  Phyllanthus, 
species, leucopyrus, formerly Phyllanthus leucopyrus, as 
well as in this and virosus, his essential character of the genus 
will require a little alteration, viz. Stylus tripartitus, Bacca 
sex-sperma; all the three are perfectly dioecous; pentan- 
drous, with a five-leaved calyx; no corol, but an acetabuli- 
form nectary; and a round, pure white, succulent, six-seeded 
berry. The seeds are separated into pairs, by thin pulpy 
partitions, and are furnished with a perisperm, and a curved 
inverted embryo. 
6. P. leucopyrus, Kon. Mss. 
Dioecous, shrubby, armed. Leaves obovate. Flowers ax- 
illary, male pentandrous, Berry dry, six-seeded. 
Fluggea leucopyrus. 
A large, poor-looking, ramous shrub, a native of the dry 
barren forests of Coromandel. It flowers chiefly during the — 
rainy season, 
Trunk erect. Branches numerous, very rigid, spreading 
in every direction round the trunk. Bark ash-coloured. 
Thorns scattered, in a bad soil more numerous, horizontal, 
large, leaf flower-bearing, they may be called spinous-point- 
ed branchlets, Leaves scattered, short-petioled, obcordate, 
smooth, entire. Stipules minute, oval, obtuse, Flowers on 
separate bushes, the female on one, the male on another. In 
both they are axillary, crowded, peduncled, and very small. 
Male calyx five-leaved, leaflets concave. Corol none, Nec- 
tarial glands five, alternate with the insertion of the filaments. 
Filaments five, longer than the cal yx. Anthers oval, Pistil 
nothing but a three-cleft column, Female calyx as in the 
male, Germ globular. Style scarcely any. Stigmas three, 
spreading, two-cleft. Berry of the size of a grain of pepper; 
smooth, dry, three-celled. Seeds two in each cell. 
Note. The parts of fructification, and its bearing the male 
flowers on one tree, and female on another, make it, in these 
respects, nearly agree with P. virosus, but the thorns, dispo- 
sition of the branches,and leaves declare it a distinct species. 
