﻿Plate 1569. 



PHYLLANTHUS TEWELLUS, Boxb. 

 EuPHORBiACEiE, Tribe Phyllantheje. 

 P. (Menarda) tenellus, Boxb. ; herba v. frutex tenellus, glaberrimus, 

 ramosus, ramis gracillimis, foliis subsessilibus disticbis omnibus con- 

 formibus i oblongo-obovatis apice rotundatis nervis divaricatis, stipulis 

 ovato-subulatis, flonbus minimis axillaribus, femineis solitariis masculis 

 1-2 immixtis longius pedicellatis, pedicellis femineis foliis brevioribus, 

 sepalis 5, masc. late orbiculari-ovatis obovatisve obtusis, femineis paulo 

 majoribus et angustioribus staminibus 5 glandnlis orbicularis alter- 

 nantibus, filamentis brevibus liberis recurvis, antberis suberectis 

 ovoidew nmis verticalibus, ovario globoso, glandulis orbiculatis suffnlto, 

 styhs 3 homontahbus brevibus liberi £ , , irvia> capsu la 



globosa tenmter Crustacea 3-cocca, coccis 2-valvibus 2-spermis. — Boxb. 

 Fllnd. m. 608, et Ic. ined.; Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii 7 et in 



ata; petiolo brevis'simo. Fl.i 



Totus glaberrimus; axis abbreviatus, 

 bliformibus superatus Folia laxe pinnatim disposi^iT poll? 

 membranacea, nervis obscuris, basi acuta; petiol 1 2 3 - 2 P ™ 

 breviter pedicellati, ^ poll. diam. ■ fern, longiu 

 A poll, diam., leviter lobata. Semina (in 

 lectis) pallida, seriatim tuberculata. 



iovfh^m th % e 5f m ^ ou of the Wallichian species of Phyllanthus 

 rrisJd nn l 1 0fBntls ^ I n ndia ' I ^d occasion to unravel those com- 

 ImZZ ^ ° f P - tendluS ^ No - 7892 of hia i ^d finding 



TJmT? 1 ^ specimen of the original plant of Roxburgh, 

 ?w? Mueller does not appear to h«.™ JL rt& i,« ,1™. ^ £2 



vr - thought it of sufficient inl 



luueiier, who has correctly referred to the same 



frican and Arabian 



specimens of Phyllanthus, has subdivided the 



nder seven varieties, of which the first is this plant, t 

 bases of th! ?° xhur 9 1l % d } ffG ™S chiefly in the very much narrower 

 bases of the leaves. Roxburgh describes his plant at Eve years old 

 clw aSd* W. i V trai S ht wood y fc ™S H feet high ; but the 

 describe, hi lt I* S^?. . s P ecimens ™ annual, and Mueller 



hZ^T^l R ^ lurg ^ 1 as eifcher annual or Perennial. P. tenellus 



