mischance, mixed some pinnate leaves with them, and was led to 

 believe that he had made a very remarkable discovery. Mueller 

 mentions this plant as being singular in the genus Phyllanthus in 

 its floral characters, particularly in having a disk of petaloid glands. 

 Generic rank has been given it here, because I believe that Phyllanthus, 

 as extended in De Candolle's Prodromu8 f is an unmanageable con- 

 glomeration of species. Sir Joseph Hooker and other botanists have 

 already restored Glochidion. — W. Dotting Hemsley. 



Plate 2563 : Sterile and fertile branches and detached leaf. Natural size. Fig. 1, 

 a male flower ; 2, segments of the disk ; 3, androecium. All mlarged. 



Plate 2564 : Sketch showing habit, and a leaf. Xatiual size. Fig. 1, a female 

 flower; 2, lower portion of one of the inner segments of the perianth with two of the 

 ligulate segments of the disk; 3, pistil; 4, cross section of ovary. All enlarged. 



