302 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Phyllanthus. 



side, leaves \ in. glaucous erect imbricating obliquely obovate-oblong acute 

 or apicnlate, flowers solitary, male and fern, subequal, pedicels capillary, 

 sepals laciniate, ovary smooth. Mucll. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 49, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 421. _ P. pallidifolius, Muell. Arg. in DC. 1. c. 424. P. 

 Zollingeri, Muell. Arg. in Linncea I. t\ 47. P. pallidus, Muell. Arg. in DC. 

 1. c. 283 (under Zollingeri). Epistylium pulcnrum & glaucescens, Baill. 

 Etudes G-en. Euphorb. 648. Reidia glaucescens, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 

 374; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5437. Eriococcus glaucescens, Morr. $ Zoll. mss. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Malngay. SINGAPOEE, Murton, &c. PEXAXG, WallicJi, 

 Curtis. DISTEIB. Siam, Java. 



Branches very stout, strict, terete, brauchlets slender. Leaves subsecund, margins 

 somewhat thickened, nerves very obscure ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, some with long 

 flexuous points. Pedicels -1 in., males in the lower axils. Floivers J in. diam., 

 white with a purple eye ; sepals deeply lacerate. Disk of male of 4 reniform glands, 

 of fern, thick annular crenate ; styles cleft to the base into 2 filiform segments. Fruit 

 not seen. 



46. P. long-iflorus, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 7905 ; shrubby, quite gla- 

 brous, leaves i-f in. obliquely oblong or obovate-oblong subacute or apicu- 

 late, flowers subsolitary, pedicels slender, sepals entire of male ovate-oblong 

 of fern, lanceolate obtuse, staminal column long slender, ovary smooth. P. 

 Heyneanus, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 49. P. nephradenius, Muell. Arg. 

 in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 423. P. tenellus, Wall. Cat. 7892 B. Epistylium 

 phyllanthoides, Baill. Etudes G-en. JSuphorb. 648. ? Heidia ovalifolia, Wight 

 Ic. 1904, f. 3 (by error 2 in text). 



DECCAN PENINSULA, Heyne. Travancore, at Courtallam, Wight. 



Branchlets slender, spreading. Leaves spreading, unequal-sided, pale brown when 

 dry, glaucous beneath; nerves very faint j petiole minute; stipules very minute. 

 Malefl. in. diam.; pedicel rather longer, capillary; sepals membranous. Fem.fi-. 

 i in. diam. ; pedicels stouter, % in. ; disk small ; styles divided to the base into slender 

 arms. Fruit -i in. long, smooth. Heyue's name of longiflorus, in allusion to the 

 narrow fern, sepals, which are conspicuously elongate when reflexed from the fruit, is 

 unobjectionable. Mueller has referred Wight's Reidia ovalifolia to (this, but the 

 leaves on the branch figured are not only (as Wight observes) too small, but far too 

 narrow ; the separate leaf at fig. 8 is more acuminate, but the petiole is much too long ; 

 the ovary does not taper into the styles, and the male disk is annular and 4-lobed, 

 not of separate glands removed from the staminal column as in its allies. More 

 specimens are required to clear up this point. 



47. P. anabaptizatus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 421 ; 

 leafing branches obscurely puberulous, leaves | in. sessile erect imbricating 

 obliquely oblong obtuse or apiculate, flowers axillary solitary, males on 

 short fern, on long pedicels, sepals of male orbicular subentire of fern, broadly 

 ovate irregularly toothed, anthers with transverse dehiscence, ovary 

 smooth. P. zeylanicus, Muell. in Linncea xxxii. 49. Eeidia polyphylla, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1904, f. 4. Epistylium polyphyllum, Thivaites Enum. 283. E. 

 zeylanicum, Baill. ^Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 648. 



CEYLON; Adams Peak, alt. 5000 ft.. Thwaites. 



A low shrub. Branches stout, strict, terete ; branchlets slender, jointed on the 

 brand). Leaves sometimes somewhat falcate, nerves obscure; stipules entire, minute, 

 ovate-lanceolate. Malefl. -^ in. diam., pedicels % in., disk of 4 glands; fern. ^ in. 

 diam., pedicels ^ in., disk annular, creuate. Styles cleft to the base into 2 slender 

 segments. Fruit 1 in. diam., quite smooth. 



48. P. fimbriatus, Muell. Arg'. in Linncea xxxii. 47, and in DC. 



