PJtyllantltus.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 291 



Seeds not seen. Mueller describes the styles of P. Latoii as connate for nearly 

 their length, but they are free, very short, with very short thick lobes, as he has 

 correctly described them under P.juniperinoides. 



13. P. hakg-alensis, Thwaitesmss. in Trimen Syst. Cat. Plant. Ceyl. 

 80 ; shrubby, quite glabrous, leaves ^ in. sessile oblanceolate or linear- 

 oblong acute coriaceous nerves very obscure, pedicels capillary longer than 

 the leaves, flowers axillary solitary males fern. ^ in. diam., anthers free 

 broadly oblong obtuse column slender, styles spreading cleft to the middle, 

 capsule globose smooth enclosed in the enlarged sepals. 



CEYLON ; at Hakgalle, Thwaites. 



Branches terete, woody, scarred. Leaves scattered round the branches, close set. 

 Sepals of both sexes broadly oblong, membranous. Disk of male of 6 rounded 

 gtends, of fern, a thick cushion. Capsule - in. diam. I have seen only one small 

 specimen. 



14. P. nemorum, Russell in Wall. Cat. 7897 B; shrubby, quite 

 glabrous, leaves in. sessile linear-oblong apiculate nerves distinct, flowers 

 axillary solitary shortly pedicelled, staminal column equalling the connate 

 obtuse anthers, styles long slender connate at the base with capitate notched 

 tips. Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 70, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 358. 



The DECCAN ? Keenly, in Herb. Resell. 



Branches terete, leafy branchlets 2 in., very slender, horizontal. Leaves \ in. 

 broad, coriaceous, brown when dry, nerves 5-6 pair ; stipules subulate. Malefl. -j^ni. 

 diarn.; pedicels capillary, about equalling the sepals; sepals oblong; fern. fl. in. 

 diam., pedicel stouter, shorter than the narrower sepals ; disk annular. Ovary glo- 

 bose, glabrous, shorter than the erect recurved styles. The styles are very peculiar. 

 Wallich's specimen is a solitary one, without fruit. On the back of the sheet is 

 written, " Phyllanthus nemorum, fruticosus foliis bifariis simpliciter pinnatis, pinnis 

 linearibus, fructu baccato exsucco tricocco parvo, ex spec. Keen." 



15. P. bceobotryoides,, Wall. Cat. 7942 ; shrubby, quite glabrous, 

 leaves 2-4 in. sessile ovate- or oblong-lanceolate acute acuminate or caudate, 

 flowers in slender axillary spikes or racemes, sepals of male 5-6 orbicular of 

 fern, oblong-lanceolate obtuse, anthers erect large acute free terminating the 

 staminal column, stylar column long straight. Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 

 15, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 354 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 348. 



SILHET, Wallich, Griffith. TENASSEEIM, Heifer. 



Branches woody, terete ; branchlets long, slender, compressed and angled. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, brown when dry, shining above ; nerves 6-8 pairs, slender ; petiole 

 minute or ; stipules minute. Racemes or spikes solitary or 2-nate, very slender, 

 shorter than the leaves ; bracts minute ; flowers solitary or clustered ; males shortly 

 pedicelled, -^ in. diam., with spreading sepals, and disk of 5-6 glands ; fern, larger, 

 with erect narrower sepals and an obscure disk. Anthers as long as or longer than 

 the column of filaments, lanceolate ; connective produced, acute. Stylar column as long 

 as the ovary, longer than the 2-partite recurved lobes which are linear-clavellate. 

 Fruit not seen, but described by Kurz as a more or less woody capsule. 



16. P. coluxnnaris, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 15, and in DC. 



Prodr. xv. ii. 334 ; a tree, branchlets finely tomentose, leaves 1-2 in. elliptic 

 or oblong obtuse or apiculate, flowers densely clustered in leafless terminal 

 racemes, sepals of male oblong glabrous of fern, ovate tomentose, anthers 

 minute obtuse terminating a very long slender column, stylar column short. 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 347. P. tetrandrus, Roxb. ?, Wall. Cat. 7930. 

 PEGU to TENASSERIM, Wallich, Griffith, Heifer. 



