Phyllanthus EUPHOIIBIACE^. 255 



outer obovate, inner ovate. Disk saucer-shaped with undulate margin. 

 Fruit globular, 6-7 mm. in diam., outer coat fleshy, milky-white, 

 enclosing 3 cocci. Seeds 3-cornered, 2 mm. 1., somewhat reddish-brown, 

 smooth. 



4. P. Fadyenii Urb. Symb. Ant. vi. 13 (1909) ; shrub, glabrous ; 

 leaves 4-5 mm. 1., upper elliptical or shortly ovate, leathery, 

 apex rounded, generally obsoletely apiculate, base emarginate, 

 the lower roundish ; sepals of male flower 5, 1 * 2 mm. 1., roundish, 

 of female flower 5, 2 mm. 1. (in fruit) ; filaments 3, free ; anthers 

 opening longitudinally.^ — P. orbicularis Griseh. FI. Br. W. Ind. 34 

 (1859) (as regards the Jamaican plant) (non H. B. & K.). Type 

 in Herb. Kew. 



Macfadyen\ 



Stipules linear-awl-shaped, persistent, l"5-"5 mm. 1. Flcnvers in the 

 axils, generally solitary. Pedicels of male flower about 1 mm. 1., of female 

 to 3'5 mm. 1. i)is/i; of 5 glands. Female flowers : Sepals ohovate. 



[P. Urinaria L. Sp. PL 982 (1753); an erect or procumbent 

 annual herb (occasionally pei*ennial), 4-16 inches (and more) 

 high ; stem and branches minutely hispid at the angles ; leaves 

 •5-2 cm. 1., oblong, .sensitive, tip rounded or apiculate, margin 

 often minutely hispid ; flowers subsessile; sepals of male floAvers 6, 

 about "5 mm. 1., of female flowers 6, about •? mm. 1., oblong, 

 1-nerved ; filaments united into a column ; anthers 3, erect, united, 

 opening vertically ; styles free ; seeds transversely wrinkled. — 

 Mtiell. Arg. in DC. Proch: .rv. pt. 2, 364 ; Hool. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 V. 293 ; Urh. Symb. Ant. vi. 89 ; Hutchinson in Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. 

 pt. I, 721. P. leprocarpus Wirjjit Ic. t. 1895, /. 4 (1 852). P. foliis 

 pinnatis floriferis, floribus sessilibus caule herbaceo procunibente 

 L. Fl. Zeyl. 157. Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb. Mus. 

 Brit. 



Naturalized ; Hope river valley ; Hope grounds ; Castleton grounds ; 

 Bath; Harris \ Fl. Jam. 9980, 12,082, 12,142, 12,155, 12,195.— Tropical 

 Asia, Australia, Pacific Is., rare in Africa. 



Stipules lanceolate-acuminate from a peltate base. Flowers greenish, 

 minute, solitary in the axils, males in the uppermost part of the branch. 

 Male flowers : Sepals obovate-elliptical. Disk composed of separate 

 minute glands. Female flowers : Sepals persistent, reflexed in fruit. 

 Disk saucer-shaped, margin irregularly toothed. Ovary, surface densely 

 granulate. Styles short, 2-cleft. Capsule about 2 mm. in diam., depressed- 

 globular, sometimes with minute spines on the surface. Seeds about 

 1-3 mm. 1.] 



5. P. carolinensis Walt. Fl. Carol. 228 (1788) ; herb, becoming 

 woody below, 2-11 inches high, glabrous; branches spreading, or 

 stiff" and erect; leaves 6-11 (-20) mm. 1., membranous, obovate 

 or oblong-obovate, apex rounded or blunt ; sepals of male flower 6, 

 about • 5 mm. 1 , obovate-roundish, of female flower 6, • 5-1 mm. 1.,, 

 increasing to about 1 or 1*5 mm. in fruit, linear-oblanceolate ; 



