94 EUPHORBIACE2. (BREYNIA. 
truncate ; styles very short. Fruit globose, about } in. in diam. 
smooth, succulent, dull-red or purple. 
Sub-Himalayan tracts and in the forests of Oudh and Bundelkhand ; 
abundant in open scrub lands and often met with in hedges. 
Flowers in April and May. Distris.: Throughout tropical India ; 
extending to Ceylon, Burma, China, the Malay Islands and the 
Philippines. 
§, PHYLLANTHUS, Linn.; FI. Brit. Ind. v, 285. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves distichous, the branchlets with 
their leaves often resembling pinnate leaves, entire, stipules usually 
narrow or none. Flowers small, moncecious, rarely dicecious, 
axillary or on the old nodes; males usually many, fascicled, sub- . 
sessile or pedicelled, rarely few or solitary ; females in the same 
or in distinct axils with longer pedicels, solitary or few; perianth 
simple. Matz-flowers: Sepals 4-6, free or nearly so, imbricate, 
more or less 2-seriate. Disk glandular, rarely none. Stamens 
3, rarely 4 or 5, in the centre of the flower, filaments free 
or connate, anthers 2-celled, oblong or didymous, rarely reniform ; 
cells parallel or diverging, dehiscence extrorse, vertical or trans. 
verse. Pistillode none. Frm.-flowers: Sepals as in male. Petals 
none. Disk glandular. Ovary usually 3-celled; styles free or con- 
nate, usually 2-fid. and with slender arms; ovules 2 in each cell. 
Fruit of 3 crustaceous or coriaceous rarely bony 2-valved cocci, 
sometimes a 4-celled berry or a drupe with a 3-4-celled bony epicarp. 
Seeds trigonous, testa crustaceous, hilum without a caruncle, 
albumen fleshy, cotyledons flat or flexuous.—Species about 400 
in all warm countries. 
Stamens 5, in 2 series, the 3 inner filaments ° 
connate.—A shrub, often scandent . . I. P. reticulatus. 
‘Stamens 3, filaments united in a column, rarely 
free and recurved :— 
Anthers erect, slits vertical, connective 
usually produced :— 
Fruit large, fleshy, containing 3 bony 
2-valved cocci; disk absent in the male- 
flowers; styles connate below, twice 
2-fid.—A tree . ‘ : ‘ . 2. P. Emblica. 
