662 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA,  Phyllanthus. 
round, laciniate. Nectary saucer-shaped, six-parted. Sta- 
mens a turbinate body in the centre of the nectary, is sur- 
rounded by three pair of anthers. FEMALE FLOWERS single 
in the axills of the exterior leaflets, short-pedicelled. Calyx 
six-leaved, the three interior leaflets ovate, acute. Germ tur- 
binate, truncate. Styles three, spreading. Stigmas three- 
cleft. Berry ovate, of the size of a pea, three-celled, six- 
valved ; cells two-seeded. 
11. P. pendula, Roxb. 
Biennial. Leaves long, pendulous, leaflets from ten to fif- 
ty pair. The male flowers round, in the inferior axills; the 
_ female ones solitary in the exterior ones, 
Teling. Tella userekee. 
A most beautiful, somewhat shrubby, erect species, when 
young not unlike Wiruri, a native of the same places, but 
very rare. Flowering time the latter part of the wet season. 
Stem biennial, or more, straight, round, smooth, Bark 
green. Branches alternate, the inferior ones diverging and 
long; the superior ones ascending and short ; all like the 
stem, and in old plants twiggy. Leaves scattered, neatly 
pendulous, filiform, pinnate; from four to nine or ten inches 
long, flower-bearing.- Leaflets from ten to fifty pair, alter- 
nate, short-petiolate, broad-lanceolate, acute, coloured round 
the edges, smooth, entire ; the lower ones are about a quarter 
of an inch long, and-one eighth broad,the exterior ones much 
smaller. Petioles filiform, flexuose, angular. Stipules of the 
oles three-fold, those of the petiolets two-fold. MALE 
FLOWERS spiked, in the axills of the lower leaflets. _ Spikes, 
when the leaves are young, they scarcely appear, a single 
flower with the rudiments of one, two or three more, is all 
that can then be seen, but in old leaves they are very conspi- 
cuous, depending, half as long as the leaflets, imbricated 
with four rows of acute, permanent membranaceous, one- 
flowered bractes, Calyx, nectary and stamens, as in Nirurt. 
FEMALE FLowers solitary, from the axills of the exterior 
Hate, short-peduncled, ae and nectary, as in Nirurt. 
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