Phyllanthus, | CVIII.: EUPHORBIACER. 108 
dilated and 2-lobed at the end. Capsule depressed-globular, scarcely 
rrowed, scaly-tuberculate or almost muricate. Seeds more or less dis- 
tinctly marked with transverse ridges or rows of tubercles.—P. echinatus, 
A. Cunn. Her 
N. Australia. South Goulburn island, A, Cunningham; Port Darwin, i st 
n. 85, 203.—A common weed in tropical Asia and Eastern Africa. 
19. P. trachygyne, Benth. Stems from a perennial base, decum- 
bent or erect, simple or slightly branched, often compressed, 1 to 1} ft. 
t 
obtuse, i tolin.long. Stipules minute, bro Flowers apparently 
m "Wises clustered, the filiform jet about 2 lines long in 
ecimens, not above 1 line in others. € t o: 6 
Réiüida ‘flowers salsa or 2 td vier with short pedicels. Perianth- 
j ue Disk with :6 broad thin lobes. 
ie viru saw d Styles 3, bifid, recurved and E ies ap- 
ovar 
Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 112 ial with eed cels) ; n. 
Maioria with i laii stems and. obtuse leaves); n. 668 ^" d (ep AR n 
leaves); and 788 (males with longer pedicels and in Me 
20. P. maderaspatanus, Li»».; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 362 
var. angustifolius. An erect simple or r branched rather rigid annual (or 
Ee of 1 to 14 ft, the branches slender, virgate, et 
lar. Leaves distichous, oblong-linear or cuneate, obtuse or m 
eronate, contracted towards the base but sessile or nearly § so, $ to lin in. 
ic d nis usually bordered with white owers very sm 
male with or without 2 or 8 males in each axil, the pedicels 
e 
ie; Glands minute. Anthers 3, distinct, erect on the top of a short 
column, the cells parallel. Female perianth about twice the size of 
the male, iy 2 lobe 3-celled. Styles distinct, spreading, dilated ont 
d y 
tralia. p E TS island, Dam gutem ago, A, Cunningham ; Port 
: Walcot, N.W. coast, Harper; Uppe E e Vidos and Fitzmaurice rivers, F. Mueller; 
11. 
ensland. Hoc khampton, Bowman, O'Shanesy; Charlesville, Giles; Peak. 
urkitt. 1 
The species is common in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. The 
shape of the leaves in the Australian specimens is "T nearly Pt figured by Wight, 
although much narrower than in the commoner forms of the 
21. P. Mi Mitchelli, Benth. An erect bushy shrub, koe renting 
Some of the roux fone less pubescent forms of P, thymoides, with 
