654 MONOECiA MONADELPHiA. Phyllanthus. 



tached to the upper end of the axis. Capsule* three-celled ; 

 cells two-seeded. Etnhryo inverse, and furnished with a pe- 

 risperm. 



SECT. I. With simple Leaves. 



1. P. madratpatensis. Willd. iv. 575. 



Annual, erect. Xeavei- alternate, narrow-cuneate. Flowers 

 axillary; male monadelphous; anthers three pair. 



Teling. Nala userekee. 



Is comuiou, with P. Niruri, in gardens, and cultivated 

 ground. Plants constantly succeed one another, and flower 

 most part of the year. 



Root annual, though sometimes it lives out the second 

 year. Stem straight, in the oldest plants somewhat woody, 

 from one to four feet high, round, smooth, above very 

 Famous. Branches sub-erect, often twiggy in large plants. 

 Leaves on the stem scattered ; on the branches alternate, bi- 

 farious, spreading, sessile ; in a good soil those on the stem 

 are linearly lanceolate, the rest wedge-formed, smooth, entire, 

 somewhat pointed, from half an inch to two inches long, and 

 from one-eighth to half an inch broad. Stipules two, lateral 

 at the cordate base, pointed, withering. Floivers axillary, 

 always one female, and from two to four or five males, all are 

 short-peduncled, but the male shortest, in the flowering time 

 erect, afterwards the male drops, and the female is bent down. 

 Male calyx six-leaved. JVectary six-scaled. Filaments sin- 

 gle. Anthers three pair round its apex. Female calyx and 

 nectary as in the male. Capsule three-celled, six-valved, with 

 two seeds in each cell. 



Taste herbaceous, with some degree of astringency. Cat- 

 tle eat it. 



2. P. simplex. Willd. iv. 573. 



Perennial, diffuse, branches flattened. Leaves bifarious, 



* In many of the species it is a very perfect herry. 



