Phyllanihus, — MONOECIA MONADELFHIA, ” 663 
Note. A very large proportion of the female flowers are 
barren. The taste is herbaceous, with a considerable degree 
of sty pticity, 
. 12. P. rhamnoides, Willd. iv. 580. 
Shrubby. Leaflets oval. Male flowers often racemed, 
and in the inferior axills ; female solitary, no nectary. 
A small shrub, a native of cultivated land, amongst other 
shrubs, on the coast of Coromandel, 
Stem scarcely any. Branches many, erect, smooth; young 
shoots angular from the running down of the insertions of the 
leaves, Leaves scattered, spreading, pinnate, flower-bear- 
ing, from three to five inches long. Leaflets from five to ten 
pair, alternate, short-petioled, spreading, broad-oval, the 
~ exterior ones largest, soft, below whitish, entire, from half to 
three-fourths of an inch long, and from one-fourth to half an 
inch broad. Petioles angular, Stipules of the petioles three- 
fold, of the leaflets two-fold. MALE FLOWERS racemed. 
Racemes single, from the lower axills, sessile, bowing, imbri- 
cated, asin P. pendula, Flowers very long pedicelled, de- 
pending. Nectary,six scales on the middle of the leaflets of 
the calyx pointing inwards, before the flower expands, these 
cover the anthers like so many hoods; when the leaves are 
young there appear only one, two or three flowers, and no ra- 
~ — ceme, but in old leaves it is as conspicuous as in P. pendula, 
.  Femaxe rrowers in the upper axills, single, short-pedun- 
cled, bowing. Calyx six-leaved; leaflets large. Nectary 
none. Germ three-horned. Styles from the horn of the germ, 
and not from the centre, each two-cleft, Siigmas revolute. 
Capsule globular, of the size of a large pea, crowned with the 
remaining styles and stigmas, as in P. bacciformis ; three- 
_ celled, as in the other species. 
‘It is to be distinguished from P. pendula, by the general 
habit of the shrubs, by the length of the leaves, by the form 
of the leaflets, and lastly by the male flowers having long pe 
dicels; in that there they are sessile, * 
