GENERA AND SPECIES. 
Mierantheum. 
A heath-like shrub, glabrous or the branchlets slightly 
pubescent ; leaves rigid, linear or oblong ; flowers 1 
or few-together; axillary; stamens 6 to9. 
Pseudanthus. 
A rigid much-branched glabrous shrub; leaves mostly 
ovate, 1 or 2 lines long, very shor tly stalked 
Phyllanthus. 
1. Stamens with connate anthers ; styles distinct 
or united. 
Sepals of male flowers, narrow, erect, connate in a more 
or less tubular calyx. 
Herbaceous, glabrous; leaves from narrow- to 
cuneate-linear or the lower ones spatular-cuneate, 
flat or recurved at the margin ; styles united 
An intricately branched spinescent shrub ; leaves 
very small obcordate or cuneate, clustered ; 
styles 3, very short spreading; male flowers 
sessile, female flowers on long pedicels ... 
Sepals of male flowers ovate, spreading. 
A somewhat tall shrub, "glabrous; leaves oblong or 
broadly linear, arranged in 2 rows; stipules subu- 
late ; styles short, very shortly lobed 
A dw a6 shrub with pubescent br a leaves 
oval or elliptical, scattered 
11. Stamens with the anthers and filaments free; 
styles free. 
Fruiting-calyx as long or longer than the capsule. 
A glabrous shrub ; leaves oblong-cuneate, very ob- 
tuse, scarcely stalked; flowers on rather long 
stalks; capsule glabrous; seeds ribbed, striate or 
smooth sds ses Ds ast sas 
A hoary undershrub ; leaves spatular or elliptic- 
obovate, shortly stalked ; flowers on short stalks ; 
capsule pubescent ; seeds smooth... 
Fruiting-calyx shorter than the capsule. 
Low diffuse glabrous annuals. 
Leaves elliptical, in two rows, almost sessile ; 
stipules very minute spreading; fruit at- 
tenuated upwards ; seeds large rough 
Leaves oblong or linear-cuneate very shortly 
stalked ; stipules minute; fruit depressed- 
globular ; seeds finely str iated 
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hexandrum 
micranthus 
thesioides 
rigens 
rhytidospermus 
Tatei 
calycinus 
Fuernrohrii 
trachyspermus 
lacunarius 
