5. KiBGANELiA. J 22. EV* BOJtiBIACEJE. [ 6. Puyllanthus. 



1. K. reticulata, Baill. Syn. P. reticulata, Poir % 

 Panjoli, II., Beng. 



A climbing shrub with slender glabrous or pubescent 

 branches, oblong leaves about If" by £", minute fls. and 

 small black berries T Vi 7 diam. 



Chiefly along ravines and naks in Hazaribagh (Damuda valley), 

 Banchi, and G.angpnr. Fl. Feby.-May. Fr. April-June (perhaps all the 

 year). Dec. Jany.-Feb. 



Brav chiefs sometimes deciduous at their base. The subtending 

 bract and its two stipules often become converted into three recurved 

 thorns by means of which it climbs. L. sometimes attain 3", obtuse 

 both ends, pale beneath, glabrous with 6-8 prs. of slender sec. n. Fls. 

 usually 1 male and 1 female in each axil, frequently racemed from the 

 reduction of the leaves, racemes sometimes fascicled. M. fl. 2W7?" long, 

 green or purplish, oampanulate, 3 outer sepals smaller than the inner, diao 

 of 5 fleshy glands. 



6. Phyllaiithus, L. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs with entire leaves often pinnately 

 arranged and small or minute monoecious flowers in axillary 

 clusters, male and female pedicels often of unequal length. 

 Sepals 4-6 imbricate in 2 series. Disc usually of scales or 

 glands (or sometimes in M. of P. Emblica). St. 3-5 free or 

 connate in the center of the flower, anths. 2-celled or didy- 

 mous. Pistillode 0. Ovary 3-celled. Styles elongate, free 

 or connate. Fruit of 3 2-valved cocci with sometimes a 

 coriaceous or fleshy epicarp, or drupaceous. 



A tree, leaves pinnately arranged on the twigs. Frt. a 

 drupe .... .... 1. Emblica. 



An erect shrub, leaves pinnately arranged Fr. 



nearly dry . 2. Lawn. 



Undershrubs or herbs St. 3. Styles 3. Fr. capsular. 



a. Anths. erect, slits vertical. Fr. echinate. 3. urinaria. 



b. Anths. didymous or reniform, «jells sub- 



globose. 

 L. narrowly oblong to elliptic. Anths. sessile on a 

 short column. 4. Niruri 



(pendulus). 

 Stipules lanceolate. Fil. sho^t, more or less free. 5. debilis 



X elliptic. (rotundifolius). 



Stipules semisagittate. FiL free. L. narrow linear 6. simplex. 

 or linear . Mong. 



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