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Phyllanthus, MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, 673 
* 
Cicca disticha. Willd. iv. 332, 
Neli pouli. Rheed. Mal. iii. t, 47, 48. 
Cheramela. Rumph, Amb. vii. t. 33.f. 2. 
Beng, Loda, Nort, 
_ Hind, Hurpurori, also Chelmer, 
Averrhoa acida. Linn, sp. pi. 613. 
Eur, Cheramella. 
Teling. Russa Userekee. 
An elegant small tree, common in gardens, where it is rear- 
ed for the sake of the fruit ; I never saw it wild. It flowers 
about the beginning of the hot season. 
Trunk tolerably straight, but short. Branches numerous, 
spreading in every direction. Bark ash-coloured, deeply 
cracked, Leaves approximated, numerous, scattered round 
the extremities of the branchlets, pinnate, often flower-bear- 
ine, from one to two feet long. Leaflets numerous, alternate, 
short-petiolate; the largest about the middle of the leaf, the 
lowermost nearly orbicular, gradually lengthening to ob- 
long ; smooth, entire, waved; from one to three inches long, 
and from one to one and a half broad ; sometimes there are 
male flowers in the axills of the exterior leaflets, Stipu/es of 
the petioles three-fold, those of the petiolets two, very minute. 
Petioles round, smooth, tapering, sometimes ending in a 
short, ¢lomerate raceme of male flowers. Racemes numerous, 
terminal; axillary and from the old germs over the naked 
branchlets, Peduncles flexuose, round, smooth, Flowers 
exceedingly numerous, small, reddish, collected into globu- 
lar heads over the raceme ; also frequently in the axills of the 
leaflets, and sometimes round the common petioles below the 
leaflets; male, female and hermaphrodite mixed. Braetes 
three-fold, at every bundle of flowers. Male flowers by far 
the most numerous. Calyx of four orbicular, spreading, con- 
cave leaflets, Corol none. Nectary four glands between 
the insertions of the petals. #ilaments four, erect, shorter 
than the corol, anthers two-lobed. Hermaphrodite and fe- 
male flowers mixed with the male ones, but fewer. Corol and 
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