658 MONOECiA MONADELPiiiA. Phyllunthus. 



species, leucopyrus, formerly Phyllantlms leucopijrus, as 

 well as in this and virosus,h\s essential character of the genus 

 will require a little alteration, viz. Stylus tripardtns, Bacca 

 sex-sperma; all the three are perfectly dioecous; pentan- 

 drous, Avith a five-leaved calyx ; no corol, but an acetabuli- 

 form nectary; and a round, pure white, succulent, six-seeded 

 berry. The seeds are separated into pairs, by thin pulpy 

 partitions, and are furnished with a perisperm, and a curved 

 inverted embryo. 



6. P. leucopyrus. Kon. Mss. 



Dioecous, shrubby, armed. Leaves obovate. Flowers ax- 

 illary, male pentandrous. Berry dry, six-seeded. 



Fluggea leucopyrus. 



A large, poor-looking, ramous shrub, a native of the dry 

 barren forests of Coromandel. It flowers chiefly during the 

 rainy season. 



Trunk erect. Branches numerous, very rigid, spreading 

 in every direction round the trunk. Bark ash-coloured. 

 Thorns scattered, in a bad soil more numerous, horizontal, 

 large, leaf flower-bearing, they may be called spinous-point- 

 ed branchlets. Leaves scattered, short-petioled, obcordate, 

 smooth, entire. Stipules minute, oval, obtuse, /^lowers on 

 separate bushes, the female on one, the male on another. In 

 both they are axillary, crowded, peduncled, and very small. 

 iV/a/eca/?/a; five-leaved, /ea^efs concave. C'o7'o/ none. Nec- 

 tarial glands five, alternate with the insertion of the filaments. 

 Filaments five, longer than the calyx. Anthers oveA. Pistil 

 nothinir but a three-cleft column. Female calux as in the 

 male. Germ globular. Style scarcely any. Stigmas three, 

 spreading, two-cleft. Berry of the size of a grain of pepper, 

 smooth, dry, three-celled. Seeds two in each cell. 



JVote. The parts of fructification, and its bearing the male 

 flowers on one tree, and female on another, make it, in these 

 respects, nearly agree with P. virosus, but the thorns, dispo- 

 sition of the brancheSjand leaves declare it a distinct species. 



