Phyllanthus, | MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, 665 
number corresponding with the cells of the berry. Berry 
depressed, umbilicated, dark purple, succulent, from eight to 
twelve-celled. Seed, one or two in each cell, placed one 
above the other. 
15. P. vitis idea, Kon, Mss. 
Sub-arboreous, Leaves bitarious ; /eaflets oval. Flowers 
axillary. Calyx six-toothed, no nectaries, no style, Berries 
_ succulent, 
Katou Nirouri. Rheed, Mal, v. t, 44, 
Beng. Kumkata Joolee. 
Yerra pooroogoodoo of the Telingas. 
This is one of the most common of the family ; it is found 
wild in every part of India, and seems to thrive well in all 
soils and situations ; but amongst the mountains, it grows to 
be a tree ; whereas in the low lands it is generally a large 
shrub. It flowers and produces fruit all the year round. 
Trunk when a tree, very straight. Branches spreading ho. 
rizontally. Branchlets flexuose, bifarious, Leaves alternate, 
bifarious, pinnate, flower-bearing, from five to eight inches 
long. Leaflets alternate, oval, entire, smooth, about an inch 
long and three-fourths broad. Petioles round, flexuose, 
smooth, Stipules of the petioles three-fold, acute, those of 
the leaflets two-fold. Flowers; the male ones from the ex- 
terior axills, from two to three-petioled; the female ones 
from the lower axills, solitary, petioled, at the flowering time 
erect, Male cal yx campanulate, margin six-notched ; seg- 
ments rounded, inflexed. Nectarynone. Filaments ap, 
clubbed. Anthers from three to five affixed to the club by 
their backs. Female calyx one-leaved, small, closely sur- 
rounding the lower half of the germ, slightly six-notched, 
Neetary none. Germ gh Neti Styles none, Stigmas three. 
pesky red. 
The wood is white, hard and durable. The hill people em- 
ploy it for various economical uses. Cattle eat the leaves, 
In drying for the hortus siccus, they always become very 
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