Phyllanthus.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 287 



toothed or lacerate, of male fl. 4, of fern. 4 or C. Stamens 2-4 ; anthers 

 didymous or reniform, sessile around a minute pistillode on the top of a 

 slender or short column, horizontal, cells often confluent, slits transverse. 

 Styles 3, 2-fid or 2-partite. Capsule of 3 thinly crustaceous 2-valved cocci. 



Sect. VIII. CICCA. A tree. Sepals 4 (rarely 5-6) in both sexes. Stamens 

 4, filaments free ; anthers oblong, erect, slits vertical. Styles 4, free. Fruit 

 fleshy, with a 3-4-celled bony endocarp. 



Sect. IX. PROSORTJS. Dioecious trees. Heaves deciduous. Sepals 4 

 in both sexes. Stamens 4, filaments free; anthers erect, slits vertical. 

 Styles 3, free, 2-fid. Fruit large, epicarp thin, dry, bursting irregularly, 

 enclosing 3 thin walled 2-valved cocci. 



Sect. I. PELTANDRA (see p. 286). 



1. P. longripes, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 10, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 341 ; quite glabrous, leaves shortly petioled3-5 in. very membranous 

 ovate-lanceolate finely acuminate, fern, pedicels very long axillary, capsule 

 small dry. Peltandra longipes, Wight Ic. t. 1891. Croton pedunculatus, 

 Wall. Cat. 7767. 



MALABAR ; Mont. Mamettori, Herb. Madr. ; at Quilon, Wight. 



Shrubby ? ; bark white ; branches long, terete, slender. Leaves undulate, base 

 acute or rounded, subglaucous beneath ; nerves 6-8 pair, very slender ; petiole ^ \ in., 

 slender; stipules ovate, ciliate, caducous. Peduncles of fern. fl. -j-L-iin., clothed with 

 tetrastich ously imbricating ovate fimbriate bracts; male pedicels ^, fern. 2-3 in. 

 Male calyx ^, fern. % in. diam. ; sepals 5, rounded. Disk of both sexes orbicular. 

 Capsule in. diam., globose; cocci thinly crustaceous. Seeds (in Wight's figure) 

 pyriform. 



2. P. macropus, HooJc.f. ; quite glabrous, leaves long petioled 3-5 in. 

 very membranous ovate- or oblong-lanceolate finely acuminate, fern, pedicels 

 very long axillary, capsule small dry. 



UPPEK ASSAM ; in the Mishmee Hills, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 4811). 



Habit of P. longipes, but at once distinguished by the petiole 1-3 in. long 1 . The 

 specimens are in fruit only, which appears to be like that of P. longipes. The leaf 

 margins are crisply undulate, as if crenate. 



3. P. suberosus? Wight in Wall. Cat. 7910 ; branches very slender 

 and petioles crisply puberulous, leaves 1-2 in. very membranous elliptic 

 acute at both ends, fern, pedicels long capillary, capsule minute. Muell. 

 Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 10, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 341. Andrachne fru- 

 ticosa & Tragia glabrata, Heyne in Herb. Bottler. 



The DECCAN PENINSULA, Wight ; Samulcotta, Heyne. 



Stem very slender, woody, terete ; bark at the base corky ; branches flexuous, with 

 a leaf at each flexure. Leaves almost hyaline, green ; nerves 4-6 pair, extremely 

 slender ; petiole T V~r<j in ' > stipules ovate-subulate. Pedicels axillary solitary or from 

 a very short peduncle clothed with subulate bracts, male -^ in., fern, f-1 in. Male 

 fl. J n in. diam., fern, larger; sepals rounded. Filaments united nearly to the top. 

 Capsule y\j in. diam., cocci thinly crustaceous. 



4. P. Thwaitesianus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 341 ; quite 

 glabrous, leaves 1-2 in. very shortly petioled membranous elliptic subacute 

 base acute, fern, pedicels capillary, capsule minute. P. Peltandra, Muell. 

 Arg. I. c. Peltandra flexuosa, Thwaites Enum. 281. P. parvifolia, Wight 

 Ic. t. 1892. 



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