EUPHORBIACE^. 3^3 



Phyllanthus rhccd ii Wight, Kew Dist. No. 2588 ! ; RB.I. 

 V 293, X 21. An undershrub and annual. Stem reddish 

 slender, terete ; branchlets angular. Leaves elliptic, 

 apiculate, about M by I inch, thin : stalk 1/16 inch. Male 

 flowers % inch, two or three at a node : pedicels slender, 

 1/16 to 1/8 inch, pendulous : perianth segments with green 

 central streak and white border: anthers longish not 

 globose. Female flowers solitary : pedicel J^ inch, 

 stouter, three-angled. Petals larger than sepals in both 

 male and female flowers. Capsule % inch, globose. 

 Seeds with rather distant longitudinal very slender 

 ridges and minute cross-lines. 



Nilgiri and Pulney plateaus, and generally the Western Ghats. 

 Bourne 506, 596.''" 



Phyllanthus simplex Ret, var gardncriana ; F.BJ., v 

 295, X 26. Branches long and slender. Leaves I to l^ 

 by J^ to J^ inch, elliptic oblong, subsessile, with slightly 

 cordate base, and revolute margin. Pedicels of male 

 flowers % inch : of female J^ to I inch. Ovary smooth. 

 * Fruit smooth or spiny ; seeds minutely tubercled.' 



Pulneys : Glen falls near Kodaikanal. Fyson 2108, 3092, 

 3093. Bourne 1172,1404. Nilgiris : at 7,000 feet (C/rt:r/^^). 



Gen. Dlst. Also Ceylon, 



The type species has narrow elliptic or oblong leaves J/^ by 

 i/^ inch. Fyson 1906. 



Gen. Dist. Of the species throughout India on the plains and low 

 hills. 



GLOCHIDION. F.B.1. 135 XI. 



Shrubs and trees with alternate quite entire leaves 

 and axillary clusters of small unisexual flowers, the 

 sexes on the same or different plants, with perianth of 

 four to six lobes or sepals. Stamens of the male flower 

 combined into a central column with erect anthers. 

 Ovary in the female flower of three or more cells, each 

 with two ovules with ventral raphe : styles short variously 



