672 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, Phyllanthus. 
Teling, Userekee. 
A pretty large tree, found cultivated in most parts of In- 
dia, and also wild in forests, Flowers during the beginning 
of the hot season; fruit ripe in eight or nine months after. 
Trunk generally crooked, when large as thick as a man’s 
body. Branches thinly scattered in every direction; male 
branches spreading and drooping. Bark ash-coloured,scab- 
rous. Leaves alternate, spreading, bifarious, pinnate, flower- 
bearing, from one to two feet long, and about one and a half 
or two inches broad, leaflets very numerous, alternate, linear 
obtuse, entire, smooth, about three-fourths of an inch long, 
and one-eighth broad, etioles striated, round. Stipules 
small, withering. Flowers minute, greenish yellow. MALE 
FLOWERS very numerous in the axills of the lower leaflets, 
and round the common petiole below the leaflets, peduncled. 
Calyx six-leaved. Filament single. Anthers from three to 
five surrounding the upper part of the columnar filament. 
FEMALE FLOWERS few, solitary, sessile, mixed with some 
males in the most exterior axills that bear flowers, Calyx as 
in the male. Nectary cup-formed, embracing half the germ, 
border ragged. Germ superior, ovate, Style scarcely any. 
Stigmas three, two-cleft, segments a little two-cleft, Drupe 
fleshy, globular, smooth, six-striated. Nut obovate, obtuse- 
ly triangular, three-celled, Seeds two in each cell. — | 
The wood of this tree is hard and durable particularly un- 
der water. The bark is strongly astringent; the natives em- 
_ ploy it to cure diarrhoeas, and to tan leather. The fruit is at 
all times full of exceedingly sharp juice; it is eaten raw by 
the natives, although to an European, the taste is disagree- 
ably acrid. They are pickled, and made into preserve with 
sugar, and also baked in tarts; by these means they are more 
reconcilable to our taste, : 
23. P. longifolius, Jacq. Hort. Schonb. ii. p. 36. t. 194. 
Arboreous, Leaflets ovate, Racemes drooping. Calyces 
- four-leaved. Male flowers tetrandrous., Drupe with a four- — 
celled nut. i 
