Andrachne."] cxxxv. EUPHORBIA CEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 285 



epicarp separating; seeds transversely wrinkled. The Timor L^ut specimen so closely 

 resembles this, that I think they must be co-specific^ though 1 find no petals in their 

 few tiowers. 



5. A. Clarkei, Hook. f. ; sparsely hairy, branches acutely angled, 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate acuminate base rounded, ovary glabrous. 



MTJNNIPORE; on Kohima, alt. 4700ft., Clarke. 



A slender erect shrub, 18 in. high ; branches green with slender ribs at the angles. 

 Leaves 2-2% in., pale green, laxly hairy beneath ; petiole - in., pubescent. Malefl. 

 % in. diam.; pedicel capillary, |-^ in.; sepals oblong, obtuse, rather fleshy, hairy 

 externally ; petals as long as the sepals; disk -scales linear, in pairs opposite the 

 sepals with a gland betwoen the bases of each pair, about as long as the petals. 

 Stamens erect ; pistillode 0? Fern. fl. % in. diam.; pedicel f-1 in.; sepals ovate- 

 Lmceolate, acute, 3-nerved, green ; disk -scales as in the male ; ovary quite glabrous. 

 Capsule 3-lobed, depressed, smooth, glabrous, about in. diam. ; seeds turgidly 

 trigonous, smooth. 



9. AGYNEIA, Vent. 



Annual or perennial glabrous herbs ; stems diffuse, often angled or com- 

 pressed. Leaves small, alternate, quite entire. Flowers minute, monoecious, 

 apetalous ; males in axillai'y clusters ; females solitary, largest ; bracts often 

 numerous, stipule-like. MALE FL. Sepals 6, gland-dotted, thickened all but 

 the white margins. Disk 6-lobed. Stamens 3, central; anthers subsessile 

 on the connate filaments ; cells parallel, extrorse. Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. 

 Disk 0. Sepals acnte, not margined. Ovary ovoid, 3-celled, truncate ; 

 styles very short, 2-fid, sunk in the top of the ovary. Ovules 2 in each cell. 

 Capsule splitting into 3 2-valved cocci. Seeds slender, curved, hilum long, 

 albumen fleshy ; embryo curved, cotyledons broad flat. Species 2, Indian, 

 Malayan, and Mascarene. 



A. bacciformis, A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 24; leaves fleshy sessile 

 oblong obovate or rounded to linear-lanceolate acute or acuminate obtuse 

 glaucous. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 238 ; Wight Ic. t. 1893 ; Miquel 

 FL Ind.-Bat. i. 2. 367. A. impubes, Vent. Sort. Cels. 23, t. 23; A. Juss. 

 I. c. 109, t. 6, f. 19 ; Baill. Etudes Gen. JEuphorb. t. 24, f. 10-14. A. phyl- 

 lanthoides, Spreng. Syst. iii. 19. Phyllanthus bacciformis, Linn. St/st. 

 Ed. 13, 707; Roxb. FL Ind.ui. 661 ; Wall. Cat. 7896. P.racemosus, Linn. 

 Suppl. 415. P. anceps & rotundifolius, Herb. Madr. Diplomorpha her- 

 bacea, Griff 1 . Notul. iv. 479. Emblica racemosa, Spreng. Syst. iii. 20. 



BENGAL, Griffith, Clarke. COROMANDEL COAST, in grassy pastures, Roxburgh, 

 &c. CEYLON, near the sea. DISTRIB. Java, Mauritius. 



Annual or biennial. Stems 6-18 in., laxly branched, angular, green. Leaves 

 rarely fin. long, nerveless; stipules minute, ovate or lanceolate, acute. Flowers 

 shortly pedicelled, males -^ in., fern. |-i in. diam. Sepals broadly ovate, acuminate, 

 studded with immersed glands, persistent. Ovary broadly ovoid, obtuse ; style with 2 

 recurved arms, stigmas acute. Capsule in. long, globosely ovoid, obtuse, nearly 

 terete. I have seen no specimen of the Javanese A. affinis, Kurz (DC. 1. c. 239) ; the 

 only Javanese species known to me is bacciformis, collected by Horstield. Roxburgh 

 describes the male sepals as laciuiate. 



10. PHYLLANTHUS, Linn. 



(See also 11. GLOCIIIDIOX.) 

 Herbs, trees or shrubs. Leaves bifarious or distichous, alternate, quite 



