Phyllanthus.'] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) 303 



Prodr. xv. ii. 422 ; quite glabrous, leaves spreading 1-1 \ in. ovate acuminate, 

 flowers all in axillary clusters male and female .together, sepals lacerately 

 toothed, anthers with transverse dehiscence, ovary smooth. Reidia fim- 

 briata, Wight Ic. t. 1904, f. 1. 



NILGHIBI HILLS; on the western slopes, Wight. 



Quite glabrous. Leaves 1^2 by f in., base obtuse, minutely pellucid-punctate, 

 reticulately veined; stipules of the branches triangular ovate scarious brown, of the 

 branchlets triangular-lanceolate longer acuminate. Pedicels of the male fl. half as 

 long as the leaves. Outer sepals of the female not entire as in Wight's figure, but 

 hardly less lacerately toothed than the outer. Male dislc of orbicular glands ; fern, 

 an entire cup. Styles erect. I do not recognize this plant in Wight's Herbarium (in 

 Herb. Hook.), where Mueller states that he saw it; he says the habit is that of P. 

 Baillonianus, but that the leaves are hardly iuaequilateral, and the sepals are not 

 entire. 



49. P. oreophilus, Muell. Arg. in Linnaa xxxii. 49, and in DO. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 421 ; shrubby, quite glabrous, leaves ^ in. broadly unequally 

 oblong very unequal-sided subacute or apiculate, flowers axillary subsolitary, 

 males minute pedicels equalling the leaves, anthers with transverse slits, 

 fern, larger pedicels much exceeding the leaves, sepals of males 4 of fern. 6 

 all broad irregularly toothed, disk of male of 4 glands, of fern, urceolate, 

 ovary and fruit smooth. Epistylium montanum, Thwaites Enum. 283. 



CEYLON; Central Province, Horton Plains, alt. 6-7000 ft., Gardner, Thwaites. 



"Branches long, slender, terete, smooth ; branchlets very slender. Leaves very 

 membranous, dark brown when dry, base acute or rounded; nerves 5-6 pair, very 

 faint; petiole and subulate stipules minute. Male fl. -Jg- in. diavu., of fern, larger. 

 Fruit % in. diam. ; cocci thinly crustaceous. Closely resembles P. affinis, differing 

 in the smooth fruit. The specimens are very indifferent. 



ff Fruit hirsute tubercled or scabrid. 



50. P. Wightianus, Muell. Arg. in Linnoea xxxii. 47, and in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 425; shrubby, branchlets and leaves beneath tomentose, 

 leaves ^-1 in. close-set drooping obliquely oblong acute or apiculate, flowers 

 solitary axillary pubescent, males minute shortly pedicelled fern, long- 

 pedicelled, sepals entire ciliate, disk of separate glands in both sexes, 

 anthers ovary and fruit scurfily scabrid. P. obliquus, Wall. Cat. 7947. 

 Eeidia floribunda, Wight Ic. t. 1903. Bradleia obliqua, Serb. Wight. 



NILGHIBI and PULNEY HILLS, Wight, Perrottet. 



Branches terete, scarred ; brauchlets long, spreading and upcurved. Leaves mem- 

 branous, unequal -sided, pale green when dry, paler or glaucous beneath, puberulous 

 above, base rounded or cuneate, rarely subcordate ; nerves 5 6. pair, very obscure; 

 petiole and stipules minute. Malefl. -^ in. diam., pedicel ^ in., capillary; sepals 4, 

 lanceolate, ciliate ; disk -glands truncate. Fem.fl. in. diam. ; pedicels | in., slender ; 

 sepals lanceolate, obtuse ; disk -glands cuneate, 2-lobed ; ovary pubescent ; styles 

 cleft to the base in two slender anus. Capsule in. diam., subsquamosely hirsute 

 with rusty short unequal bristles, cocci crustaceous. Seeds smooth. Wight describes 

 the flowers as fascicled, but figures them, as I find them, solitary. 



51. P. cinereus, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 48, and in DC. Prodr. 



xv. ii. 425 ; shrubby, branchlets tomentose, leaves -|-| in. broadly obliquely 

 oblong unequal-sided or orbicular acute or apiculate pubescent beneath 

 sparsely above, flowers solitary axillary, pedicels of male shorter of fern, 

 longer than the leaves, sepals ovate entire, ovary hairy, capsule rough with 

 minute tubercles. Epistylium floribundum, Thwaites Enum. 283 (in part, 

 excl. 



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