300 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. ( J. D. Hooker. ) [Phyllanthus. 



ami primary branches stout, ultimate short, all angled ; the angles as well as the 

 leaves beneath hispidulous with white hairs. Leaves pale when dry, rather thick, 

 nerves 4-5 pair distinct on both surfaces ; petiole minute ; stipules white, membranous, 

 lanceolate. Malefl. -^ in. diam., fern, rather larger, pedicels of both T VrV m - Sepals 

 oblong obtuse with broad white margins ; fern, a little enlarged and reflexed after 

 fruiting. Disk of male of rounded glauds ; of fern, a low crenate cup ; anther-cells 

 at length confluent. Capsule in., depressed globose, 3-lobed, minutely granulate. 

 Seeds very broad, sides with concentric ribs. A' very distinct plant, near P. Niruri, 

 but with scaberulous branches and leaves, much larger flower and fruit, reflexed 

 sepals after fruiting, and very different seeds. ' 



Sect. VII. EEIDIA (see p. 286). 

 * Leaves 2-5 in. Sepals entire or lacerate. Ovary glabrous, smooth. 



39. P. elegrans, Wall. Cat. 7926 ; shrubby, quite glabrous, leaves 3-4 

 in. ovate- or oblong-lanceolate finely acuminate, male fl. shortly pedicelled 

 in clusters on the branches, fern, in terminal racemes, sepals of male 4 of 

 fern. 6 all lacerate, fruit smooth. Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 46, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 420. 



TENASSERIM; at Moolmayne, Mergui and Amherst, Wallicli, &c. 



Branches terete. Leaves coriaceous, glaucous or brown beneath, base acute or 

 rounded, margins recurved ; nerves 5-6 pair, very faint ; petiole -^ in. ; stipules 

 subulate. Male fi. -iy in. diam., densely clustered; pedicels -^-i "in., capillary; 

 sepals 4, fimbriate; glands cup-shaped; anthers 2, didymous. Fern. fl. solitary in 

 the axils of lanceolate bracts forming a terminal distichous raceme ; flowering pedicels 

 ^ in., fruiting 1-1^ in. ; sepals 6, unequal, lacerate, equalling the male in flower, 

 fruiting much enlarged. Fruit % in. diam. or more; cocci coriaceous. Seeds $ in. 

 long, finely transversely striolate. 



40. P. Saillonianus, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 47, and in DC. 



Prodr. xv. ii. 422 ; shrubby, quite glabrous, leaves l|-2 in. ovate acuminate 

 pale beneath, male fl. axillary long-pedicelled solitary or few together, fern, 

 axillary and in terminal racemes, sepals entire, fruit smooth. Epistylium 

 cordifolium, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 648. E. latifolium, Thivaites 

 Enum. 283 (exd. s\jn.}. 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 2-4000 ft., Gardner, Thwaites. 



A bush, 3-4 ft., branches terete. Leaves membranous, green when dry, base un- 

 equal rounded rarely subcofdate, often marbled with broad white or brown beneath ; 

 nerves 10-12 pair, very spreading ; petiole -^ in. ; stipules minute, subulate. Malefl. 

 4- in. diam.; pedicels capillary, J- in.; sepals 4, orbicular, entire; disk of 2 very 

 large dilated reniform fleshy tuberculate lobes ; anthers forming 2-lipped ends of a 

 fleshy cross. Fern. fl. much smaller, axillary or from an axillary short bracteate 

 peduncle; sepals concave, entire, much enlarged in fruit; disk large, dilated, fleshy, 

 convex, tubercled, 6-lobed; styles short, cleft to the base into slender segments. 

 Fruit 5 in. long. Seeds \ in. long. The disk is very remarkable. This is certainly 

 not the Travancore plant figured by Wight (Ic. t. 1904, f. 3 (2 in text) as Reidia 

 latifolia. 



41. P. Roxburgh!!, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 47, and in DC. 



Prodr. xv. ii. 420 ; shrubby, branches crisply puberulous, leaves glabrous 

 l|-3^ in. lanceolate subacute or acuminate, male and fern. fl. densely fas- 

 cicled in the axils or on the branchlets, pedicels of both capillary, sepals of 

 male pectinately fimbriate of fern, serrate, ovary smooth. P. tetrandrus, 

 Eoxb. FL Ind, iii. 674 ; Wall. Cat. 7936. Epistylium Koxburghii, Baill. 

 Etudes Gen. Euphorl. 648. 



