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PSEUDANTHUS. 



774. Leaves mostly ovate. 



A small spreading shrub ; leaves quite small ; sepals linear- 

 spathulate ; three of the filaments much longer than the 

 anthers. P. OValifolius. 



Leaves mostly orbicular. 



A small spreading shrub ; leaves quite small ; sepals yellow- 

 ish, ovate-spathulate ; none of the filaments much longer 

 than the anthers. P. divaricatissimus. 



PHYLLANTHUS. 



775. Fruit protracted upwards. 



Annual, glabrous, greyish-green ; leaves almost elliptical, 

 somewhat cuneate, in two rows turned away from the 

 flowers somewhat to one side ; flowers axillary, on very 

 short stalklets ; sepals much shorter than the fruit ; seeds 

 large, rough, livid, acute at both ends, excavated at the 

 inner angle. P. trachyspermus. 



Fruit depressed-globular ... ... ... 776 



776. Styles undivided. 



Herbaceous, glabrous ; leaves from narrow- to cuneate- 

 linear or the lower spatular-cuneate, flat or recurved at 

 the margin ; calyx of staminate flowers tubular. 



P. tliesioides. 



Styles divided into two segments ... ... ... 777 



777. Beset with short hairlets 778 



Glabrous 779 



778. Staminate and pistillate flowers on distinct plants. 



Perennial, beset with short scattered hairlets ; leaves 

 cuneate- or elliptic-obovate, recurved at the margin ; 

 stipules dark ; flowers quite small, on very short stalk- 

 lets ; fruit small. P. thymoides. 



Staminate and pistillate flowers on the same plant. 



Perennial, invested with minute greyish hairlets ; leaves 

 spatular- or elliptic-obovate ; flowers on short stalklets ; 

 fruit small ; seeds smooth, brownish. 



P. Fuernrohrii. 



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