288 cxxxv. EUFHORBI. \CE;E. (J. I). Hooker.) [Phyllanthus- 



CEYLON ; at Minnery, not common, Thivaites. 



Stem shrubby below, much branched above, branches slender angular. Leaves 

 bright glaucous-green often marbled with white, very thin; nerves 4-5 pair, extremely 

 slender ; petiole -y^-^ in. ; stipules subulate. Pedicels axillary or from a very short 

 peduncle clothed with ovate fimbriate bracts, male in., fern. |-| in. jfalefl. 5 ' in. 

 cliam., fern, larger; sepals rounded. Filaments united to the middle. Style-arms 

 capitellate. Capsule $ in. diam. I have little doubt but that Wight's Peltandra 

 parvifolia, of which he had lost the locality, is from- Ceylon, and is the Phyll. 

 Thtvaitesiamis, Muell., in which I find the filaments free from the middle upwards. 



Sect. II. KIRGANELIA (see p. 286). 



5. P. reticulatus, Poir. Encyc.L v. 298 ; glabrous pubescent or 

 tomentose, branches smooth or tuberculate, leaves 1-2 in. oblong or el ' "tic 

 tip rounded obtuse or acute, flowers axillary and subracemose on si der 

 branches, 3 inner filaments connate, ovary globose 5-8-celled, stigi s 3 

 distant very minute 2-lobed, fruit coriaceous or fleshy 8-16-seeded. J\. ell. 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 344; Brand. For. Fl. 453; JBeddome Fore >rs 

 Man. 190 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 353. P. microcarpus, Muell. A in 

 Linncea xxxii. 51, and in DC. I. c. 343. P. multiflorus, Willd. Sp. J ?"v. 

 581; Eoxb. FL Ind. iii. 664 (not of Roxb. Icon.}; Grah. Cat. . &. 

 -PL 180; Wall. Cat. 7921. P. Kirgauelia, Herb. Ham. and Sox,.. P. 

 dalbergioides & myrtifolius, Wall. Cat. 7934 and 7940. P. "Wighti- 

 auus, Wall. Cat. 7919. P. griseus, Wall. Cat. 7918 A (in part). P. 

 Prieurianus, Muell. Arg. in Linnaa xxxii. 12. P. Chamissonis, Klotzsch in 

 Nov. Acad. Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. 420. P. sinensis, Muell. Arg. in Linncea 

 L c. 12. P. puberulus, Miquelin Herb. HolienacJc. No. 728. P. pentandrus, 

 Herb. Roxb. P. virosus, Wall. Cat. 7928 D. P. spinesceus, Wall. mss. 

 Anisonema reticulatum, A. Juss. Tent. Euplwrb. 19 t. 4, f. 1. A. mul- 

 tiflorum, Wight Ic. t. 1899 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. FL 234. A. Zollingeri, 

 Miqiiel FL Ind. Sat. i. ii. 375, and Suppl. 449. A. dubium, Blume Bijd. 

 589 ; Dene, in Nouv. Ann. Mus. iii. 481; Miquel L c. 375. A. intermedium 

 & eglandulosum, Dene. I. c. 482 ; Miquel I. c. Kirganelia reticulata, multi- 

 flora, intermedia, Wightiana, puberula, dubia, sinensis & eglandulosa, 

 Saill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 613, 614. K Prieuriana, Baill. Sec. Obs. 

 i. 82. K. multiflora, Thwaites Enum. 282. Cicca reticulata, Kurz For. FL 

 ii. 354. C. decandra, Blanco FL Filipp. 487. C. microcarpa, Benth. FL 

 Hongk. 312 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 355. Ehamnus zeylanicus, Burm. Thes. 

 Zeyl. 198, t. 88. 



Throughout TROPICAL INDIA ; in the plains from Scind, Behar, Rohilkund, Sikkim 

 and Assam, to Travancore, Malacca, Perak, the Andaman Islands, Burma and CEYLON. 

 DISTEIB. Tropical Africa, China, and the Malay Islands. 



A large often scandent shrub ; branchlcts slender. Leaves thin, sometimes rather 

 stiff, variable in size and form, base rounded acute or subcordate ; nerves 6-8 pair, 

 slender; petiole T V^ m - > stipules ovate-subulate, entire. Flowers male and fern, 

 subequal, about -~^ in. diam. ; pedicels about in. Sepals?) 6, rounded. Disk-glands 

 variable. Ovary usually much exserted. Fruit ^^ in. diam., subgranulate. Fruit 

 often racemose on the slender leafless branches. Seeds irregularly trigonous, testa 

 crustaceous granulate punctulate. The pubescent state, though the less common one, 

 occurs throughout the range of the species. I can find no characters whereby to 

 distinguish P. microcarpus from reticulatus; the lenticellate branches occur in both, 

 those with globose and depressed-globose fruits. 



Sect. III. FLUEGGEOPSIS (see p. 286). 



6. P. glaucus. Wall. Cat. 7927 A ; quite glabrous, leaves 1-1 in. 



