_ Phyllanthus, | MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 669 
Botanic garden at Calcutta by Captain Tennant in 1802; 
where it blossoms the whole year, but rarely ripens its seed 
in Bengal. 
Trunk distinct, straight, and about as thick as a man’s 
wrist ; covered with rough, dark greenish, ash-coloured bark. 
Branches numerous, spreading far; the smaller have their 
extremities often drooping, and covered with smoother bark 
than the’trunk. Height of the now five-year-old shrubs about 
eight feet, and expanding much more. Leaves alternate, 
pinnate, from four to six inches long. Leaflets from ten to 
thirty pair, alternate, from oblong elliptic, to lanceolate. Sii- 
pules thin at the base of the common petioles ; and in pairs at 
the insertion of the leaflets. lowers axillary, several male, 
and generally one female, very small, reddish, Calyx in 
both of five oblong, concave leaflets. Nectary in both five 
separate glands, within and alternate with the leaflets of the 
calyx. Male filament a single column, dividing into three, 
four or five, each furnished with a two-lobed anther. Female. 
germ ovate, from three to five-celled, with two seeds in each, 
attached to the top of the axis. Stylescarcely any. Stigmas 
from three to five, deeply two-cleft; segments long, taper, and 
variously bent, but always spreading back over the germ. 
Berries small, round, dark red, succulent, from three to five- 
celled... Seeds two in each cell, but all seldom come to ma- 
turity. Embryo inverse, curved and furnished with a peris- 
perm, 
A stout handsome shrub, loaded with abundance of deli- 
cately small, ever-green foliage. The flowers are too small 
to add to its beauty, except when narrowly inspected. 
20. P. reclinatus, Roxb. 
Shrubby, scandent, with reclinate branchlets, and leaves. 
Leaves pinnate, floriferous ; eaflets many, alternate, oval-ob- 
long, with a few male flowers in the lower axills, and one fe- 
male in the exterior. Filament columnar, Capsule de- 
pressedly turbinate. 
