660 -MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. Phyllanthus. 
Kirganeli. Rheed, Mal. x. t. 15. 
Urinaria Indica. Burm. Zeyl. t. 93. 
Hind. and Beng. Sada-hazur munee. 
Teling. Nella userekee- 
A common weed in gardens, and on dry cultivated lands, 
or such as have been lately cultivated. 
Root annual. Stem erect, from one to two feet high, 
round, smooth. Branches numerous, in large plants the 
lower spreading to a considerable extent. Leaves scattered, 
spreading, pinnate, from one to three inches long, flower- 
bearing. Leaflets alternate, bifarious, nearly sessile, oval, 
smooth ; about half an inch long, and one-fourth broad. Sti- 
putes of the petioles three-fold, forming a three-toothed cup 
round their insertion, each tapering toa fine point; those of the 
leaflets similar, but one on each side. Flowers leaflet-axil- _ 
Jary, generally one or two male, and one female, short-pe- 
duncled, after flowering time the male drops, and the female 
droops. Male calyx six-leaved, Corol none. Nectary small, 
saucer-formed, six-toothed. Stamens, one short, columnar 
filament. Anthers three pair. Female calyx and nectary 
as in the male. Capsules smooth, umbilicated, opening with 
an elastic jerk, three-celled, six-valved ; cells two-seeded. 
The root tastes bitter, and astringent. The Rev. Dr. John 
‘informs me, that he has known the fresh root prove an eX-. 
cellent remedy for the Jaundice. About half an ounce, while 
fresh, was given, rubbed up in a cup of milk, night and 
morning, the cure was completed in a few days without avy 
semsible Operation of the medicine, — 
9. P. urinaria, Willd. iv. 583. 
Annual, erect, Leaflets linear-oblong. Flowers sessile in 
the exterior axills ; female solitary in the inferior, Capsules 
scabrous, AB lis 
Tsjeru Kirganeli, Rheed, Mal. x. t. 16. 
Beng. and Hind, Hazar muvee.  _ 
_ Teling, Yerra userekee. 
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