664 MONOECU MONADELPHiA. Phyllantkus. 



13. p. petiolaris. R. 



Shrubby. Z,eai;es pinnate; /er7/Ze<s about five pair, sub- 

 rotund, smooth and entire. Female flowers on the common 

 petioles. 



A native of the Circar mountains, where it grows to be a 

 stout, ramous shrub. 



14. P. midtiflorus. Willd. 



. . J J.' Shrubby, climbing-. Leaflets o\^\. /^/ojcers of both the 



f^* sexes with five-leaved calyces, and five-scaled nectaries. 



Berries from ten to twelve-seeded. 



Hind, and Beng. Panjooli. 



Niruri. Rheed. Mai. x. t. 27. 



Teling. Nella-pooroogoodoo. 



Phyllanthus tinctorius. Konig's Mss. 



A large straggling, or climbing shrub, common in hedges 

 and amongst bushes on the banks of water courses. It flow- 

 ers most part of the year. 



Trunk scarcely any thing that can be so called, but many, 

 very long, straggling, stout, woody branches, running through 

 amongst, and over other shrubs, to a very great extent. Bark 

 rust-coloured. jLeaues scattered, spreading-, pinnate, flower- 

 bearing; from three to five inches long. Leaflets alternate, 

 oval, entire, covered with a very little down; about three 

 quarters of an inch long, and half an inch broad. Stipules of 

 the petioles three-fold ; those of the leaflets two-fold. Flowers 

 leaflet-axillary, small, white, generally one female, and two 

 or more males in the same axill, peduncled, at the flower- 

 ing time erect, sometimes there is also a small axillary raceme 

 of male flowers, and at others the common petioles end in a 

 raceme. Male calyx five-leaved, leaflets oval. JVectary 

 five glands placed on the junctures of the leaflets of the ca- 

 lyx. Filaments three, unequal ; that in the centre is erect, 

 large and bears three anthers ; the other two lateral ones are 

 filiform, oblique, and bear one anther each. Female calyx 

 and nectary as in the male. Styles one. Stigmas minute, in 



