662 MONOECIA MONADELPiiiA. Phyllanthus. 



round, laciiiiate. JVectary saucer-shaped, six-parted. Sta- 

 mens a turbinate body in tlie centre of the nectary, is sur- 

 rounded by three pair of anthers. Female flowers single 

 in the axills of the exterior leaflets, short-pedicelled. Calyx 

 six-leaved, the three interior leaflets ovate, acute. Germ tur- 

 binate, truncate. Styles three, spreading-. Sti(/?nas three- 

 cleft. Berry ovate, of the size of a pea, three-celled, six- 

 valved ; cells two-seeded. 



11. V.pendnla. Roxb. 



Biennial. Leaves long, pendulous, leaflets from ten to fif- 

 ty pair. The male Jlowers round, in the inferior axills; the 

 J'emale ones solitary in the exterior ones. 



Teling, Telia userekee. 



A most beautiful, somewhat shrubby, erect species, when 

 young not unlike JViruri, a native of the same places, but 

 very rare. Flowering time the latter part of the wet season. 



Stem biennial, or more, straight, round, smooth. Bark 

 green. Branches alternate, the inferior ones diverging and 

 lono-; the superior ones ascending and short; all like the 

 stem, and in old plants twiggy. Leaves scattered, nearly 

 pendulous, filiform, pinnate ; from four to nine or ten inches 

 long, flower-bearing. Leaflets from ten to fifty pair, alter- 

 nate, short-petiolate, broad-lanceolate, acute, coloured round 

 the edges, smooth, entire ; the lower ones are about a quarter 

 of an inch long,and-one eighth broad,the exterior ones much 

 smaller. Pefio/es filiform, flexuose, angular. Stipules oHhe 

 petioles three-fold, those of the petiolets two-fold. Male 

 flowers spiked, in the axills of the lower leaflets. Spikes, 

 when the leaves are young, they scarcely appear, a single 

 flower with the rudiments of one, two or three more, is all 

 that can then be seen, but in old leaves they are very conspi- 

 cuous, depending, half as long as the leaflets, imbricated 

 with four rows of acute, permanent membranaceous, one- 

 flowered bractes. Calyx, nectary and stamens, as in Niruri. 

 Female flowers solitary, from the axills of the exterior 

 leaflets, short-peduncled. Calyx, and nectary, as in Mruri. 



