Phyllanthus. | MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, 659 
7. P. virosus. Willd. iv; 578. 
Dioecous, sub-arboreous, unarmed. Leaves elliptic and 
oval. Male flowers axillary, crowded, pentandrous, Berries 
succulent, white, pendulous, six-seeded. 
Up among the Circar mountains, where this chiefly grows, 
it is frequently a middle sized tree, In the forests of the low 
countries, it is much smaller, or only a large shrub, It flow- 
ers during the hot, and beginning of the wet season, 
Trunk erect. Bark rust-coloured. Branches numerous, 
ascending ; branchlets bifarious. Leaves simple, alternate, 
bifarious, short-petioled, oval, entire, smooth, from one to two 
inches long, and from half an inch to an inch broad, Sti- 
pules minute. lowers very small. This species is dioe- 
cous, the male flowers having always been found ona separate 
tree from the female. In both they are axillary, crowded, 
short-peduncled, when in flower erect, Male calyx, or corol 
five-leaved ; leaflets oblong, concave.. Nectary five yellow 
glands surrounding the base of the style. Filaments five, 
spreading, inserted between the nectarial glands; anthers 
simple. Pisééd only a style-like column in the centre witha 
stellate top. Female calyx as in the male. _Nectary a five- 
sided ring surrounding the base of the germ. . Germ ovate, 
Styles three, Stigma two-cleft. Berry the size of a pea, 
covered with a white, fleshy pulp, three-celled. Seeds two 
in each cell. 
The bark isa strong astringent, and: possesses the power of 
intoxicating fish, when thrown into the water, where they are; 
which like the berries of .Menispermum cocculus, renders 
them easily taken. 
SECT. II. Leaves pinnate. 
8. P. Niruri. Willd, iv. 583. 
Annual, erect, Leaflets oval.. Flowers axillary, pedun- 
cled, one or two male, and one female, Capsules smooth, 
three-celled, . ee 
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