Bseynt.] EUPHORBIACE2. 93: 
Himalaya up to 5,000 ft. ; common also in the Punjab Plain and in 
Sind, extending to Kanara, the Carnatic, Ceylon and Upper Burma. 
7. BREYNIA, Forst.; Fl. Brit. Ind. v, 329. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves small, alternate, petioled, entire, 
often distichous. Flowers moneecious, axillary, minute ; pedicels 
distinct, solitary or the males in fascicles. Perianth simple. Ma.r- 
flowers: Calyx turbinate or hemispheric with a truncate limb ;. 
margin often thickened and lobulate opposite the minute inflexed 
and rounded lobes. Petalsnone. Disk none. Stamens 3, filaments. 
connate ; anthers slender, adnate to the whole length of the column ; 
cells linear, parallel, distinct. Pistillode none. Fxm.-flowers : 
Calyx coriaceous, turbinate or rotate ; limb broadly and shortly 
-6-lobed, often much enlarged and disciform in fruit. Petals disk 
and staminodes none. Ovary 3-celled, fleshy above, globose 
truncate or depressed at the apex; styles 3, sessile or connate 
in a short column, each 2-fid. or 2-lobed; or stigmas 3, minute, 
simple and immersed in a cavity at the top of the ovary; ovules 
2 in each cell. Fruit globose or depressed, more or less succulent, 
indehiscent or with a 6-valved pericarp enclosing 3-6 imperforate 
indehiscent cocci. Seeds with a membranous testa, hilum without 
a caruncle, albumen fleshy, cotyledons broad, radicle long.— 
Species 12, in Trop. Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands. 
B. rhamnoides Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv, part 2, 440; 
Brandis For. Fl. 455 ; Ind. Trees 568 ; F. B. I. v, 330 ; Watt E. D.; 
Gamble Man. 604; Frain Beng. Pl. 933 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb. ii, 583. 
Phyllanthus Vitis-Idceea, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 665.—Vern. Tikkar 
(Oudh). 
A shrub or small tree, quite glabrous. Bark rough, yellowish-brown. 
Branches many, horizontal; branchlets flexuous, angular. Leaves 
many, membranous, distichous, shortly stalked, 2-14 in. long, elliptic, 
obtuse or subacute, pale beneath, turning darkebrown or black when 
dry, base subacute or rounded ; petiole ,}; in. ; stipules ;'; in., subulate 
from a triangular base. Flowers very small, on filiform pedicels, 
the males usually in small fascicles, females generally solitary. MatLr- 
flowers: Calyx turbinate or subcampanulate, mouth entire or 
obscurely lobed. Staminal column truncate at the apex and produced 
beyond the adnate anthers. Frm.-flowers. Calyx cup-shaped ; 
hardly enlarged in fruit ; lobes 6, acute. Ovary exserted, oblong, 
