Phyllanthus. | MONORCIA MONADELPHIA. 671 
Stem straight, woody ; branches few and erect, particular- 
ly while young. Bark of the stem dark brown; the height 
of the plants in ten years, and they have been full grown for 
some years, about eight feet. Leaves alternate, pinnate, ho- 
rizontal, or drooping, from six to twelve inches long. Leaf~ 
Jets numerous, alternate, short-petioled, broad-lanceolate, en- 
tire, smooth, about two inches long, and scarcely one broad. 
Racemes \eaflet-axillary, sessile, solitary, short, imbricated 
with small, cordate, pointed bractes. MALE FLOWERS more 
-mumerous than the female ones, peduncled, drooping. Ca- 
lyx one-leaved, peltate, fleshy ; border crenulate; in the cen- 
tre are six semi-circular, incurved, fleshy scales, from a trian- 
gular excavation, in which the stamens are lodged, Fila- 
ment single, short, three horned. Anthers double, at the ex- 
tremity of each of the horns of the filaments, FEMALE FLOWw- 
ERS on the same raceme with the male, and of nearly of the 
same size, Calyx six-parted to the base; divisions sub-or- 
bicular, coloured on the inside. Nectary none. Germ tur- 
binate, truncated. Styles three, spreading, each two-cleft. 
Capsule size of a large cherry, smooth, of a beautiful pale rose 
colour, three-celled, three-valved ; valves fleshy. Seeds, two 
in each cell, black, rounded at the base, pointed at top, co- 
vered on the inside with a white fleshy aril, and by it affixed 
to the central receptacle. 
22. P, Emblica, Willd. iv. 587. 
- Arboreous, Leaves bifarious; leaflets numerous. Flow- 
ers axillary, and below the leaves. Calyx six-leaved. Drupe 
with a three-celled nut. 
Emblica officinalis. Gert. Sem. ii, 122. 
Nilicamaram. Rheed, Mal. i. t. 38. 
Sans. Amlaki, See Asiat. Res. iv. 308. 
» Hind, Amlae. 
Beng, Amla. . 
- Tam, Nellekai. 
_Myrobalana Emblica of the Materia Medica. 
