284 A FLORA OF MANILA 
spreading. Ovary 2- or 38-celled; styles usually 2, forked; ovules 2 in 
each cell. Fruit drupe-like, with often scanty flesh and 1 or 2 1-seeded 
cocci or pyrenes. (In honor of S. E. Bridel, a bryologist.) 
Species 30, tropical Asia and Africa through Malaya to Australia, 2 
or 3 in the Philippines. 
1. B. stipularis (L.) Blume. Lubdlub (Tag.). 
_ Ascandent shrub, or suberect with scandent or dropping branches, reach- 
ing a height of 6 m, rather densely pubescent. Leaves elliptic to elliptic- 
ovate, acute or obtuse, base rounded or subcordate, 4 to 10 cm long, pale 
beneath. Flowers axillary, clustered, pale-green, about 1 cm in diameter, 
with few, scattered, purplish dots, the males sessile, the females pedi- 
celled. Fruits about 1 cm long, oblong, seated on the enlarged calyx. 
In thickets, San Pedro Macati, etc., fl. Oct—Nov.; widely distributed and 
common in the Philippines. Tropical Asia, Africa, and Malaya. 
3. PHYLLANTHUS Linnaeus’ 
Herbs or shrubs with 2-ranked, alternate, entire, often small leaves. 
Flowers small, monoecious, apetalous, in axillary clusters. Disk various, 
rarely none. Male flowers: Sepals 4 to 6, imbricate in 2 series. Disk- 
glands various. Stamens 3 to 5 in the center of the flower, the filaments 
free or united; anthers oblong, the cells parallel or diverging, the slits 
vertical or transverse. Female flowers: Sepals as in the male. Ovary 3- 
celled or more; styles free or connate, usually 2-fid; ovules 2 in each cell. 
Fruit of 3 or more, crustaceous, 2-valved cocci, or fleshy and berry-like. — 
(Greek “leaf” and “flower” from the fact that in the typical American 
forms the flowers are borne on the leaves.) 
Species about 400, in all warm countries, 20 in the Philippines. 
1, weorabs ‘with Deshy berry-like trutt.20 7-2 .4225ee- ee 1. P. reticulatus 
1. Herbs with dehiscent capsules. 
2. Anthers dehiscing vertically; flowers sessile or nearly so; capsules 
pana Z ese Recta i tf Col | 7 — lA ae lad eG ni anh: PP Pe 2. P. urinaria 
2. Anthers dehiscing horizontally; flowers distinctly pedicelled; capsules 
smooth. 
8. Leaves 2 to 5 mm wide; usually much-branched plants; pedicels 
iL doce long... ic Aes atta onde ae 3. P. niruri 
3. Leaves 6 to 9 mm wide; slightly or not at all branched plants; 
pedicels ‘about 5. mar: lame iis.tcs tie si ee 4. P. simplex 
1. P. reticulatus Poir. Tintatintahan (from Sp. tinta=ink). 
An erect or somewhat scandent shrub 1.5 to 5 m high, the branches 
elongated, often pendulous, somewhat. pubescent or glabrous. Leaves dis- 
tichous, oblong to elliptic-oblong, 1.5 to 4 em:long, obtuse or acute, rather 
pale beneath, short-petioled, base rounded or obtuse. Flowers axillary, 
solitary or few in each axil, slenderly pedicelled, 2 to 3 mm long, green 
tinged with purple. Fruit depressed-globose, soft and fleshy, smooth, black 
when mature, 5 to 7 mm in diameter. (FI. Filip. pl. 239.) 

*For the Philippines species of this and allied genera (Agyneia, Flug- 
gea, Glochidion, Phyllanthus, Cicca, Sauropus, and Securinega) see Ro- 
binson, C. B., “Philippine Phyllanthinae.” Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 
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