Phyllanthus.'] cxxxv. BUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 299 



Seeds much more strongly ribbed than in its allies. This resembles a minute rigid 

 branched Niruri, and has similar styles, but is smaller in all its parts with differently 

 ribbed seeds. 



36. P. debilis 9 Herb. Sam. ; annual, quite glabrous, leaves ^-f in. 

 very membranous elliptic or obovate obtuse or acute, nerves 4-5 pair very 

 obscure, pedicels much shorter than the leaves, sepals with broad mem- 

 branous margins, filaments very short free, anthers didymous, styles short 

 reflexed arms recurved, capsule minute, seeds ribbed. P. tenellus, Wall. 

 Cat. 7892 G. 



NORTH- WEST INDIA, Soyle. SIKKIM and BHOTAN HIMALAYA, alt. 1-3000 ft., 

 Griffith, &c. BEHAK and Hazaribagh, Hamilton, Clarice. ASSAM and KHASIA MTS., 

 Jenkins, &c., alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. H. # T. T. DECCAN PENINSULA, Herb. G. 

 Thomson. DISTRIB. Trop. Africa. 



An erect very slender herb, 1-3 ft. high ; stem terete, naked below, branched 

 above, branches slender. Leaves pale green when dry, glaucous beneath, base usually 

 acute ; petiole -^ in. and less ; stipules membranous, lanceolate. Male fl. -^ in. 

 diam., very shortly pedicelled; sepals obovate-oblong; disk-glands stellately lobed ; 

 filaments recurved. Fern. fl. -^ in. diam., fruiting in. diam.; sepals as in the male, 

 but much larger, spreading in fruit. Capsule ~ in. diam., coriaceous. Seeds with 

 irregular slender ribs. Near P. Leschenaullii, but a much more slender and annual 

 plant with smaller leaves, few faint nerves and much larger fern, flowers. Much 

 nearer P. Niruri, but the leaves, fruit and flowers are much larger, the ribs of the 

 seed irregular, the style-arms longer and recurved, and the disk-glands of the male 

 lobulate. The true P. tenellus is a Mauritian plant, cultivated in Calcutta, and is 

 Wallich's 7892 A, the left-hand specimen only, and is pentandrous. It is figured in 

 Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 1569. 



37. P. rotundifolius. Klein in Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 584 ; annual, quite 

 glabrous, stems many rigid ascending from the woody root branched, leaves 

 -J in. subsessile coriaceous orbicular or broadly obovate tip rounded or 

 apiculate nerves obsolete, flowers minute males sessile fern, very shortly 

 pedicelled, anthers subsessile reniform, styles minute free 2-lobed, seeds 

 with equal slender ribs and cross strias. Muell. Arg. in Li.nnaa xxxii. 43, 

 and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 405. P. bacciformis & rotundifolius, Herb. 

 Madr.; Wall Cat. 7896 B. P. Nirnri, Wall. Cat. 7895 A (in part). P. 

 tenellus, Wall. Cat. 7892 A (in part), C. 



DECCAN PENINSULA, Klein ; Coromandel coast, Roxburgh, Wight, &c. CEYLON, 

 at Ballicaloa, Gardner. DISTRIB. Arabia, Trop. Africa. 



Stems many, 6-24 ft., stiff', terete ; branchlets compressed or angular, angles 

 sometimes minutely hirtellous. Leaves pale when dry, glaucous beneath ; petiole 

 minute; stipules minute, subulate. Male Jl. -^ in. diam., very shortly pedicelled; 

 fern. -jL in. ; fruiting i in. diam., spreading; pedicel stout, not half as long as the 

 leaf. Sepals oblong- obovate, with a broad white margin. Disk of male of minute 

 glands, of fen), annular. Capsule T V-yV ^ u< diam., depressed-globose, smooth, scarcely 

 lobed. Mueller gives Assam as a locality, but the specimen so marked from Col. 

 Jenkins is probably from the Calcutta Gardens. 



38. P. scabrifolms 9 Hook. f. ; annual, erect, stem and branches 

 angular and leaves beneath scaberulous, leaves %-% in. subsessile broadly 

 elliptic or obovate tip rounded nerves distinct, flowers very shortly pedi- 

 celled, stipules lanceolate serrate, filaments short united to the middle tips 

 recurved, anthers reniform, styles free short reflexed arms recurved, capsule 

 smooth, seeds with 7-9 dorsal ribs and faint transverse strioe. 



The CONCAN, Stocks. 



A leafy herb, 6-10 in., copiously branched from the base and upwards ; stem 



