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the indumentum. The more glabrous. veia des hori smaller flowers ; both occur 
with 3-locular as well as 4-locular ovaries a s. It is possible, however, that there 
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the size of the flowers; but the specimens ave seen, numerous and various as they 
are, have been insufficient for determining. the point; the great perine kanig "either 
male flowers only, or fruits only from which the styles have fallen a 
17. PHYLLANTHUS, Linn. 
(Glochidion, Forst.; Kirganelia, A. Juss. ; Synostemon, F. Muell.; Reidia, Wight.) 
Mae ers moncecious or rarely ie ds axillary — or solitary. 
socfions 4, more or less distinctly in 2 fi all stn’ and often petal- 
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cell. Styles free or : e or less deeply 2-lobed or rarely 
entire. Capsule separating into 2-valved cocci or ea de- 
hiscent. Seeds triangular in the cross section, the in i straight ; 
the back semicircular, without any carunculus. Caiado road.— 
Herbs, shrubs or s alterna tire, often distichous so as 
the branchlets the appearance of x leaves.  Stipul 
small, ally brown — enini or t or edged cat 
e genus is numerous in species dispersed over the warmer regions both of the 
Nee. and the Old World. . Of the forty-four Aus edes species, I have been only able 
` to identify four with widely-spread Asiatic ones, the others appear to be all endemic; 
but, d in the sinon Glochidion, the species are distinguished by characters so 
that it is possible that some may be still referred to Indian or Archipelaga 
faot. 1. Glochidion.— Trees or shrubs the leaves often large. Stamens 3 or 
, the anthers erect and sessile on a central column, ded Ovary 3 more jd 8 S 
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Ovary pet idit, slightly rowel, he ő pe S OG : s Ferdinandi. 
Ovary and capsule deeply lobed, 3- s nS P. lobocarpus. 
Szor. 2. Synost —Undershrubs is a herbs. Leaves small. 
Stamens 3, sg — adnate to a central column, tee cells parallel. 3-celled. 
Styles dist connate at the base. No glands or disk in either sex. 
Male Satna yos: narrow, erect, herbaceous or rigid, 
d dts Hoary or glaucous "undershrubs or rarely 
Styles thick bat free. Stems from a woody base decum- 
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Leaves seil M lower ones pem yo. 
ovate 3. P. ditassoides. 
