668 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA,  Phyllanthus. 
18. tenellus. Roxb. 
An erect, delicate, small shrub. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets 
from eight to ten pairs, oval, Flowers axillary, peduncled ; 
one female and several pentandrous male ones; in both a five- 
leaved calyx, and five-scaled nectary. Capsule three-cell- 
ed, six-valved, with two seeds in each cell. Introduced from 
the Mauritius in 1802, by Captain Tennant. | 
Trunk a single, straight, ligneous twig, of three anda half 
feet in height, with a few still more delicate, erect branches, 
from the whole plant, which is now five years old. Leaves 
pinnate, alternately scattered round the stem and branches, 
diverging from two to three inches long. Leaflets from six 
to ten pair, alternate, oval, smooth, and entire ; about half an 
inch long. Stipudes tapering, acute, those of the common pe- 
tiole three-fold, those of the leaflets two-fold. # lowers two- 
fold, in the axills of the leaflets, generally one longer pedun- 
cled female one, and several shorter peduncled male ones, 
opening in succession, pale pink, exceeding minute ; particu- 
larly the male ones. Male calyx of five, orbicular leaflets. 
Nectary of five, roundish scales, alternate with the leaflets of 
the calyx. Filaments five, alternate with the nectarial scales, 
and shorter than the calyx. Anthers oval. Female calyst, 
leaflets five, oblong. Nectary as in'the male. Capsule mi- 
nute, oblate spherical, three-celled, ysix-valved. Seeds, two 
in each cell. Perisperm in considerable quantity ;_ pale, 
fleshy. Embryo inverted, and curved, the two subulate co- 
tyledons point to the lower angle, and the radicle to the apex 
19. P. Kirganelia, Willd. iv, p. 587. 
Shrubby. Leaves pinnate, with from twelve to thirty pair 
of alternate, oblong leaflets, Flowers axillary, peduncled, 
several monadelphous male, and one female flower toge- 
ther, in both calyx five-leaved, and nectary of five giants, 
Berries many-seeded. 
A native of the Mauritius, fom thence inteodacell into the 
