26 Euph07'biacece. {Phyllanthus,. 



17. p. clnereus, Muell. Arg. in Linncea, xxxii. 48 (1863). 

 Epistyliion Jloribttndumy Thw. Enum. 283 (part). C. P. 2531, 3872. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 303. 



A bush; bark brown, rough with scars of numerous leaf- 

 branchlets, which are crowded at ends of branches; young 

 parts pubescent or glabrous ; 1. numerous, on very short 

 petioles, \-\ in., broadly oval-oblong or oblong-orbicular,, 

 very unequal -sided, apiculate, rather thin, paler and often 

 pubescent beneath ; fl. solitary, drooping, on slender ped.,. 

 fem. much larger than male, on much longer ped. thickened 

 upwards, on upper part of branchlets ; male fl. : — sep. 4, 

 broadly ovate, entire ; disk of 4 large orbicular glands ; 

 stam. 4, anth. sessile, with transverse dehiscence; fem. fl.: — 

 sep. 6, oval, obtuse; ov. hairy, styles short, deeply bifid ; fr. 

 erect, under \ in., depressed, rough, with minute prominences; 

 seeds quite smooth. 



Montane zone; rather rare. Maturata; Wattakelle Hill. Fl. Feb.-; 

 Sept. ; red. 



Endemic. 



The branchlets and under surface of leaves vary in amount of 

 pubescence, they are often quite glabrous. 



18. P. aflfinis, Muell. Arg. in Linncea, xxxii. 48 (1863). 

 Epistyliurn fioribundum, Thw. Enum. 283 (part). C. P. 71. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 304. 



A bush ; leafy branchlets numerous, crowded near summit 

 of stems, more or less pubescent ; 1. numerous, on very short 

 petioles, \-\ in., or rather more, broadly oval-oblong, very 

 unequal-sided, apiculate, slightly pubescent above, strongly 

 so and pale beneath ; stip. linear, long-pointed, persistent ; 

 male fl. not seen, ' minute solitary ' axillary ; ' sep. rounded, 

 obscurely toothed;' disk glands large, lobulatc; fem. fl. on 

 slender ped. thickened upwards and longer than 1.; fruit \ in., 

 covered with a dense tomentum of branched processes; seeds, 

 smooth. 



Montane zone; very rare. Galagama (Gardner). 

 Endemic. 



Very near the last, with which Thwaites combined it. When dried, 

 leaves become nearly black on upper surface, pale yellow beneath. 



P. longifolius, Jacq. {Cicca disticha^ L.), is a bush or small tree much 

 grown in native gardens for its acid fruit, under the names ' Rata-nelli ' 

 or ' Siri-nelli,' and no doubt an ancient cultivation. It is the * Nelli ' of 

 Herm. Mus. 55, and therefore Fl. Zeyl. n. 179 (and the Averrhoa acida 

 of Linnaeus); but there is no specimen in Herb. Herm., and the drawing 

 is by no means characteristic. Rheede's figures (Hort. Mai. iii. tt. 47,. 

 48) are good. Probably originally a Malayan plant. 



