Phyllanthus. monoecia monadelphia. (571 



Stem straight, woody ; branches few aiul erect, particular- 

 ly while young. Bark of the stem dark brown ; the height 

 of the plants in ten years, and they have been full grown for 

 some years, about eight feet. Leaves alternate, pinnate, ho- 

 rizontal, or drooping, from six to twelve inches long. Leaf- 

 lets numerous, alternate, short-petioled, broad-lanceolate, en- 

 tire, smooth, about two inches long, and scarcely one broad. 

 Racemes leaflet-axillary, sessile, solitary, short, imbricated 

 with small, cordate, pointed bractes. Male flowers more 

 numerous than the female ones, peduncled, drooping. Ca- 

 Ijjx one-leaved, peltate, fleshy ; border crenulate; in the cen- 

 tre are six semi-circular, incurved, fleshy scales, from a trian- 

 gular excavation, in which the stamens are lodged. Fila- 

 ment single, short, three horned. Anthers double, at the ex- 

 tremity of each of the horns of the filaments. Female flow- 

 ers on the same raceme with the male, and of nearly of the 

 same size. Calyx six-parted to the base ; divisions sub-or- 

 bicular, coloured on the inside. Mectary none. Germ tur- 

 binate, truncated. Styles three, spreading, each two-cleft. 

 Capsule size of a large cherry, smooth, of a beautiful pale rose 

 colour, three-celled, three-valved ; valves fleshy. Seeds, two 

 in each cell, black, rounded at the base, pointed at top, co- 

 vered on the inside with a white fleshy aril, and by it affixed 

 to the central receptacle. 



22. P. Emblica. Willd. iv. 587. 



Arboreous. Leaves bifarious ; leaflets numerous. Flow- 

 ers axillary, and below the leaves. Ca/yx six-leaved. Drupe 

 with a three-celled nut. 



Emblica officinalis. Gcert. Sem. ii. 122. 



Nilicamaram. Rheed. Mai. i. t. 38. 



Sans. Amlaki. See Asiat. Res. iv. 308. 



Hind. Amlae. 



Beny. Anda. 



Tam. Nellekai. 



Myrobalana Emblica of the Materia Medica. 



