664 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA.  Phyllanthus, 
13. P. petiolaris. R. 
Shrubby. Leaves pinnate; “aflets about five pair, sub- 
rotund, smooth and entire. Female flowers on the common 
petioles. 
A native of the Circar mountains, where it grows to be a 
stout, ramous shrub, 
14. P. multiflorus. Willd. 
Shrubby, climbing. Leaflets oval. Flowers of both the 
sexes with five-leaved calyces, and five-scaled nectaries. 
Berries from ten to twelve-seeded. 
Hind, and Beng, Panjooli. 
Niruri, Rheed, Mal. x, t. 27. 
Teling. Nella-pooroogoodoo, 
Phyllanthus tinctorius. Kénig’s Mss. 
A large straggling, or climbing shrub, common in hedges 
and amongst bushes on the banks of water courses, It flow- 
ers most part of the year, 
Trunk scarcely any thing that can be so called, but many, 
very long, straggling, stout,woody branches, running through 
amongst, and over other shrubs, toa very great extent. Bark 
rust-coloured, Leaves scattered, spreading, pinnate, flower- 
bearing; from three to five inches long. Leaflets alternate, 
oval, entire, covered with a very little down; about three 
quarters of an inch long, and half an inch broad. Stipules of 
the petioles three-fold ; those of the leaflets two-fold. Flowers 
_ leaflet-axillary, small, white, generally one female, and two 
_ or more males in the same axill, peduncled, at the flower- 
ing time erect, sometimes there is also a small axillary raceme 
of male flowers, and at others the common petioles end in a 
raceme, Male calyx five-leaved, leaflets oval. Nectary 
five glands placed on the junctures of the leaflets of the ca- 
lyx. Filaments three, unequal; that in the centre is erect, 
large and bears three anthers; the other two lateral ones are 
filiform, oblique, and bear one anther each. Female calyx 
and nectary &s in the male. ‘Styles one. Wisent 2 minute, in 
