CXV. BUPHORBIACE^. 585 



Stipules simple, not peltate. 

 Glabrous annuals. 



Styles minute, 2-lobetl ; disk-j;lancls of 

 males minute ; seeds with i-egular 



parallel ribs 7. P. Xiruri. 



Styles reflexed with recurved arms ; 

 disk-glands of males stcUately lobed ; 



seeds with irregular ribs S. P. dcbilis. 



Branches and leaves hispidly hairy 9. P. scahrifolius. 



Sepals 4 in both sexes ; stamens 4 ; styles 3 ; flowers 



dicecious ; a tree 10. P.inclicus. 



1. Phyllanthus reticulatus, Poir. Encyc. Method, v. 5 (1804) 

 p. 298. A large glabrous or pubescent straggling or climbing shrub (in 

 the forests along the Indus in Sind climbing over the largest trees 

 \^Brandis]); branches smooth or lenticellate. Leaves 1-1 5 by 5-I in., 

 variable, oblong or elliptic, sometimes almost rotuudate, obtuse or acute, 

 thin, glabrous or nearly so, pale beneath, base rounded, acute or sub 

 cordate ; main nerves few , slender ; petioles y^-^ in. long, slender, 

 stipules y'^ in. long, ovate, acute, sometimes bristle-pointed. Flowers 

 axillary, the males in fascicles oF 2-6, the females solitary ; pedicels 

 -Y^-\ in. long, slender. Calyx glabrous, reaching y\y in. long; segments 

 oblong, very obtuse, alternating with the glands of the disk. Male 

 FLOWERS : Stamens 5, the 3 inner connate into a column, the 2 outer 

 free, shorter. Female flowees: Ovary 5-10-celled ; ovules 2 in each 

 cell," superposed ; styles 3, minute, 2-lobed. Fruit a purple fleshy 

 berry ^ in. in diam., globose, smooth and shining. Seeds 8-16 

 (usually 10), irregularly 3-gonous, finely granulate. Fl. B. I. v. 5, 

 p. 288; Trim. Fl.'Ceyl. v. 4, p. li); Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 300 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 369; Prain, Beng. PL 

 p. 934; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 1, p. 223. Ph>fllanthus 

 multiflorus, Willd. Sp. PL v. 4 (1805) p. 581 ; Grab. Cat. p. 180. 

 Anisonema multijiora, Wight, Icon. t. 1899 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 234. — 

 Flowers througliout the year. Veen. Pdvaa ; Datvan. 



Throughout the Presidency, often in hedges. Xonkan : Law !, Stocls !, Graham. 

 S. M. Country: Dharwar, Cookc\ Kanara : Karwar, Talbot, 13! Gujarat: 

 Dakor, Kanitkarl—'DiaTmn. Throughout Tropical India; Ceylon, Tropical Africa, 

 China, Malay Islands. 



2. Phyllanthus Emblica, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 982. A decid- 

 uous small or middle-sized tree with crooked trunk and spreading 

 branches : bark greenish-grey, peeling off in conchoidal Hakes ; branch- 

 lets glabrous or hnely pubescent, 4-8 in. long, often deciduous. Leaves 

 subsessile, g-g by j^y-g in., closely set along the brauchlets, distichous, 

 light-green, glabrous, narrowly linear, obtuse, imbricate when young, 

 having the appearance of pinnate leaves ; stipules ovate, finely acute. 

 Flowers greenish-yellow, in axillary fascicles on the leaf-bearing branch- 

 lets, often on the naked portion below the leaves, with fimbriate bracts 

 at the base. Male flowers numerous, on short slender pedicels. 

 Sepals 6, oblong, obtuse, -^ in. long. Disk 0. Anthers 3 on a short 

 central column. Female flowers few, subsessile. Sepals as in the 

 male. Disk a lacerate cup. Ovary 3-celled ; styles connate at the base, 

 irregularly twice 2-fid with acute lobes. Fruit g-f in. in diam., fleshy, 

 globose, with 6 obscure vertical furrows, pale yellow, of three 2-seeded 

 crustaceous cocci. Seeds 6, 3-gonous. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 289 ; Grab. 

 Cat. p. 180 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. t. 258 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 4, p. 19 ; 



