Phyllanlhns. monoecia monadelphia, 659 



7. P. virosiis. W'dld. iv. 578. 



Dioecous, sub-arboreous, unarmed. Leaves elliptic and 

 oval. Male jloxoers axillary, crowded, pentandrous. Berries 

 succulent, white, pendulous, six-seeded. 



Up among- the Circar mountains, where this chiefly grows, 

 it is frequently a middle sized tree. In the forests of the low 

 countries, it is much smaller, or only a large shrub. It flow- 

 ers during the hot, and beginning of the wet season. 



Trunk erect. Bark rust-coloured. Brandies numerous, 

 ascending ; brancldets bifarious. Leaves simple, alternate, 

 bifarious,short-petioled, oval, entire, smooth, from one to two 

 inches lonff, and from half an inch to an inch broad. Sli~ 

 pules minute. Floicers very small. This species is dioe- 

 cous, the male flowers having always been found on a separate 

 tree from the female. In both they are axillary, crowded, 

 short- ped uncled, when in flower erect. Male calyx, or corol 

 five-leaved ; leaflets oblong, concave. JVectary five yellow 

 glands surrounding the base of the style. Filaments five, 

 spreading, inserted between the nectarial glands; anthers 

 simple. Pistil only a style-like column in the centre with a 

 stellate top. Female calyx as in the male. JVectary a five- 

 sided ring surrounding the base of the germ. Germ ovate. 

 Styles three. Stigma two-cleft. Berry the size of a pea, 

 covered with a white, fleshy pulp, three-celled. Seeds two 

 iu each cell. 



The bark is a strong astringent, and possesses the power of 

 intoxicating fish, when thrown into the water, where they are; 

 which like the berries of Menispermiim cocciilus, renders 

 them easily taken. 



SECT. II. Leaves pinnate. 



8. P. Xiruri. Willd. iv. 583. 



Annual, erect. Leaflets oval. Flowers axillary, ped un- 

 cled, one or two male, and one female. Capsules smooth, 

 three-celled. 



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