with a longish radicle poiating to the hilum. Suffru- 

 ticose plants : leaves alternate, short petioled, ovate. 

 Male flowers axillary, sub-amentaceous, longish pedi- 

 celled : anient or short raceme coA^ered with ovate, 

 ciliate, imbricating, membranous bracts. Female flow- 

 ers solitary, long pcdicelled, usually seated at the base 

 of the male amentiform racemes. 



1891. Peltandba longipes (R. W.), erect, ramous : 

 leaves short petioled, ovate, acuminate, slightly den- 

 tate : female peduncles much longer than the leaves, 

 filiform : filaments united nearly to the apex. 



Quilon, Malabar. 



The specimen represented is much smaller than 

 some others in my collection, but is on that account 

 better adapted for the size of my plate. 



1892. Pelta^'dra pabvifoma (R. W.)i stems 

 erect, angular, ramous : leaves broad ovate, mucro- 

 nate, entire : pedicels of the female flowers about 

 the length of, or a little longer than the leaves : fila- 

 ments united about half their length. 



Malabar ? I am uncertain in regard to the station 

 which is not marked, but I think Malabar. Though, 

 as shown by the figm-e, so urdike the other, yet when 

 the specimens are placed side by side they present a 

 very evident family likeness. 



1893. Agyneia bacciformis (Juss. fil., Phyllart' 

 thus laccifonnisj Lin., Roxb.) biennial, diffuse, herba- 

 ceous : stems triangular : leaves somewhat succulent, 

 stipules forked: male flowers several in the lower 

 axils : female usually solitary towards the ends of 

 the ramxdi : filaments 3, united to the apex : styles 

 spreading: stigmas 2-lobed, reflexed. 



This is a common and variable plant, common in 

 grassy pastui*e near the coast, and is in flower all the 

 year. The plant represented is a small one, as it is 

 occasionally to be met with nearly two feet long, 

 lying flat on the ground. 



1894. PhtllanthusNiruri (Linn.), annual, erect, 

 ramous : branches herbaceous, ascending ; floriferous 

 branchlets (pinnate leaves of old authors) filiform : 

 leaves elliptic, mucronate, entire, glabrous : flowers 

 axillary ; male flowers minute, two or three with one 

 longer pedicelled female in each axil, terminating in 

 three transverse anthers : capsule globose, glabrous, 

 3-angled with 2 seed in each sell: seed triangular, 

 albumen very abundant embryo axile. 



A common weed everywhere, and, where it has 

 moisture enough to grow, always in flower. 



The male flowers are minute and might easily be 

 overlooked beside the female ones which are more 

 conspicuous, hanging in rows below the leaves. In 

 the evening or in dark cloudy weather the leaves 

 close like those of the sensitive plant. 



This, like several other species of the genus, bears 

 the leaves and flowers on a series of ramuli, different 



It was an error of Linn£eus to call this plant Niruri^ 

 seeing it is the Kirganeli of the Hortus Malabaricus, 

 and an even worse one, on the part of Willdenow, 

 to call another plant, not even a native of India, 



Kirganelia, 



1895-1. 



W., Ntru7 



Hort. Mai. 2. tab. 27.)» shi'ubby, leaves oval obtuse, 

 mucronate : stipules subulate : flowers axillary ; males 

 two or three, female, when present, solitary, larger 

 and longer pedicelled than the male : filaments united, 

 3-anthered at the apex, capsule globose. 



Malabar. This species, if known, seems to have 

 been cither confounded with others resembling it in 

 general appearance, or has been passed over as an un- 

 known plant. Roxburgh (FL Ind.) quotes Rheede's 

 figure (2 tab. 27) for P, multiflorus^ and in Dillwyn*s 

 valuable review of the references to that work it is 



quoted for an unpublished species of Roxburgh's " P. 

 scandens*' (probably P. multiflorus of his flora which 

 he characterizes as climbing) ; but whatever that 

 plant may be, it is not, under that name, admitted 

 into the Flora Indica. After much consideration 

 I propose to quote this plate as a Synonyme for my 

 plant, and 5 tab. 44 for Roxburgh's P. mvltifloms^ 

 Anisonema multlfiora of a subsequent plate (No. 1899). 



This is certainly a Phyllanthus, which is not the case 



of either P. rhamnoides^ or P. midtiflorus, 



1895-2. Phyllanthus fojlyphyllus (Willd.), flo- 

 riferous branchlets many-leaved: leaves linear, ob- 

 tuse, mucronate, small : flowers axillary, solitary : 

 female ones above : stems shrubby or sub-arboreous: 

 floriferous rachis somewhat compressed : stamens 

 monadelphous : anthers vertical, cohering : crowned 

 with the prolonged connective. 



Sub-alpine jungles. Common towards the foot of 

 the Eastern slopes of the Neilgherries. A large shrub 



or small tree, so very like JEmhlica officinalis in its 



general appearance and habit, that I for a long time 

 thought it that tree. A single glance however at the 

 fruit is enough to show the difference. 



1895-3. Phyllanthus ]V1ai>ba?atensis (Lin), 



leaves alternate, narrow cuniate : stipulary scales 

 scai'iose, peltate, flowers axillary, 3-5 males and one 

 female : stamens monadelphous, connective prolonged 

 beyond the anthers, capsule glabrous. 



This is a very common plant, but the form repre- 

 sented is rather rare. The leaves in the more usual 

 form are much broader at the apex, more cuniate, and 

 often somewhat rctuse at the point; but notwith- 

 standing these differences I believe this to be simply 

 a narrow-leaved variety of that plant. 



1895-4. Phyllanthus lbprocarpus (E. W.), her- 

 baceous, erect : floriferous braachlets spreading, many- 

 leaved: leaves elliptic oblong, obtuse, ciliate: stipu- 

 lary scales scariose, peltate, cordate at the base, acu- 

 minate: anthers crowned with the prolonged con- 



from the others, so much resembUng pinnate leaves nective, capsule globose, scaly, rough. 



that they were for a long time considered such, the 

 authors not adverting to the circumstance that leaves 

 never bear flowers, and that their presence at once 

 shows that the rachis on which they are borne is a 

 branch, not the midi'ib of a compound leaf. In the 

 above and following characters I have called them 

 floriferous branchlets or ramuli, in contradistinction 

 to the proper branches of the plant- 



I have named this species, which greatly resembles 

 in its general appearance luxuariant plants of P. 

 Niruriy in allusion to its rough scaly capsules, which 

 of itself I find sufficient to distinguish it from all 

 those in my collection. I suspect that when this genus 

 comes to be carefully revised, the elements of two 



will be found among 



in these two plates. 



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