290 cxxxv. EUPHOKBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Phyllantlms. 



staminal column slender, styles robust 2-lobed lobes short broad 3-crenulate, 

 fruit 1 in. diam. globose fleshy. Cicca macrocarpa, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 352. 



Pegu and Prorae districts of BURMA, Kurz. 



I have seen no specimens of this, which with the leaves of P. Mmblica differs, ac- 

 cording to Kurz, in the wrinkled fissured bark, the styles, and large fruit. 



' 10. P. pectinatus, Hook. f. branchlets scurfily tomentose, leaves 

 in. distichously close-set linear-oblong obtuse coriaceous incurved when 

 dry with recurved margins nerveless, fruit turbinate ^-f by ^ * in. P. 

 Emblica, Wall. Cat. 7903 G. 



PERAK, King' s Collector ; SINGAPORE, Wallich-, MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 

 4799), Maingay (Kew Disfrib. 1352). 



Very similar to P. Emblica , but differing in the scurfy rusty branchlets and form 

 of the fruit. 



Sfect. Y. PARAPHYLLANTHUS (see p. 286). 

 * Shrubs or trees. 



11. P. polyphyllus, Willd. Sp.Pl. xiv. 586; shrubby, quite glabrous, 

 /eaves - in. sessile linear-oblong obtuse or apiculate, nerves very distinct, 

 flowers pedicelled subsolitary, anthers subsessile on a very short column 

 free, style stout with 3 2-fid arms, fruit small 3-lobed epicarp thin, cocci 

 subglobose crustaceous, seeds remotely foveolate. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 352 ; Beddome Forester's Man. 190 (excl. some syns.} ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 1895. P. racemosus & polyphyllus, Herb. Heyne in Wall. Cat,. 7902. P. 

 ernblicoides, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 15, and in DC. I. c. 353. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, Klein, Heyne; in subalpine jungles, common towards 

 the eastern slopes of the Nilghiris, Wight. CEYLON ; common in the north part of 

 the island. 



Branches terete, strict. Leaves - in. broad, base rounded or subcordate, nerves 

 6-8 pair; stipules ovate-lanceolate, entire. Male fl. -^ in. diam ; sepals 6, oblong ; 

 disk-glands fleshy ; anthers not apiculate. Fern. fl. twice as large, disk annular. 

 Fruit 4- in. diam., depressed. Seeds flat on the opposed faces, convex on the other. 

 There is some confusion about this plant. Wight figures the styles as free and sessile, 

 and the anthers as cohering and crowned with a prolonged connective, none of which 

 characters do I find. Mueller describes the stylar column as slender, with 3 long 

 slender 2-fid arms, and the anthers as shortly apiculate. I find the stylar column long 

 and stout, and the anthers hardly apiculate and quite free. Mueller further cites Nepal 

 as a habitat, and Don's P. taxifolius as a synonym, which plant has pubescent 

 branches, and is, I should think, P. Emblica. I find no difference between Mueller's 

 P. emblicoides and polyphyllus. Dalzell's P. polyphyllus is no doubt Mueller's P. 

 Lawii. Beddome erroneously unites P. Lawii with polyphyllus. 



12. P. Lawii, Grali. Cat. Bomb. PL 181 ; shrubby, quite glabrous, 

 leaves - in. very shortly petioled linear-oblong obtuse or apiculate, nerves 

 very obscure, flowers subsessile, anthers free stipitate, styles 3 very short 

 2-lobed. fruit small 3-lcbed, cocci subglobose crustaceous. Muell. Arq. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii 353. P. spinulosus, Herb. Heyne, Wall. Cat. 7897 A. 

 ? P. polyphyllus, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 234 P. juniperinoides, Muell. Arg. 

 in Linncea xxxii. 18, and in DC. I. c. 358. 



BEHAII; on the banks of the' Soane, J. D. H. DECCAN PENINSULA, from the 

 Concan and Belgaum to the Wynaad, Law, Stocks, &c. 



A shrub; branches usually grooved, branchlets sometimes faintly puberulous. 

 Leaves half as broad as long or narrower, base rounded or cordate ; stipules minute, 

 setaceous. Male and fern. fl. T \j-^ in. diam. ; sepals 6, oblong, obtuse or subacute. 



