670 ‘ MONOECIA MONADELPHIA; Phyllanthus, 
A large, shrubby, somewhat climbing plant; a native of 
Suinatra, and brought from thence to the Botanic garden by 
Mr. William Roxburgh, in 1803, where it flowers during the 
rains chiefly. 
Trunk scarcely any, but many long, straggling or climb- 
ing, woody branches, clothed with dark brown, smooth bark; 
branchlets reclinate, round, smooth, and green. Leaves pin- 
nate, and reclinate, from twelve to thirty-six inclies long. 
Leaflets from six to twenty pair, alternate, short-petioled, 
ovate-oblong, entire, smooth, about an inch and a half long, 
and less than one inch broad. Stipules of the leaves three- 
fold ; those of the leaflets paired. Flowers leaflet-axillary, 
generally several, small, yellow, the male ones in a few of the 
lowermost axills, and one smaller, shorter peduncled, green 
female one in the exterior. Male calyx turbinate, one-leaved, 
with a contracted, six-toothed mouth, teeth alternately small- 
er, and incurvate. Filament single, columnar, clavate, with 
six linear, two-lobed anthers round its upper two-thirds. Fe- 
male calyx six-toothed ; teeth rounded. Germ turbinate, 
three-celled, with two seeds in each. Styles scarcely any- 
_ Stigmas three, triangular, incurvate. Capsule compressed, 
turbinate, of the size of a pea, smooth, red, three-celled, three- 
valved, each valve separating into two, from the case Up- 
wards as in Bradleia, Seeds two in each cell, angular, i 
. teguments three; the exterior one a complete, soft, orange 
coloured aril ; the second, hard, thick and black ; the interior 
one membranaceous. Perisperm conform to the seed. Em- 
bryo inverse, curved, Cotyledons oblong. Radicle cylindric, 
superior. 
21. P. strictus. R. . wa 
Shrubby ’ straight, Leaves pinnate “3 leaflets firm, ovate 
oblong to lanceolate. Racemes axillary ; male calyx one 
leaved ; female deeply six-parted. Capsule berried. 
A native of the Malay Islands, to the eastward of the Bay 
of Bengal. mae. a8 oe lath iene 
