304 cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Phyllanthus. 



CEYLON; Central Province, alt. 3-5000 ft., Thtoaites (C.P. 2531). 



Branches slender, smooth, terete ; branchlets upcurved, finely tomentose. jLean.s 

 as in P. Wightianus, but less pubescent beneath, almost black above when dry and 

 glaucous beneath ; nerves 5-6 pair, very faint ; petiole minute ; stipules ovate-lanceo- 

 late. Malefl. T \y in. diam. ;*pedicel in., capillary ; sepals membranous, ovate-oblong, 

 ciliate ; disk-glands very large concave stipitate. Fern. fl. larger; sepals glabrous. 

 Fruit about ^ in. long ; cocci thinly crustaceous. Seeds quite smooth. 



52. P. affinis, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 48, and in DC. Prodr. xv. 



ii. 425 ; shrubby, quite glabrous, leaves f-1 in. obliquely oblong acute 01 

 apiculate, flowers solitary axillary glabrous, males minute shortly pedi- 

 celled, sepals rounded obscurely toothed, disk-glands of male large lobulate, 

 ovary and fruit densely hirsute with rough hairs. Epistylium floribundum, 

 Thwaites J2num.283 (in part). 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 3-5000 ft. 



Very similar m habit, foliage and flowers to P. Wightianus, but the fruit is densely 

 clothed with much longer f rough hairs. 



53. P. Hamiltonianus, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxiv. 75, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 424 ; shrubby, slender, branchlets and leaves beneath 

 puberulous, leaves 1-1 ^ in. elliptic or broadly ovate obtuse or acute mem- 

 branous glaucous beneath, male fl. small long-pedicelled in axillary fascicles. 

 fern, on longer pedicels axillary and in terminal racemes, sepals pubescent 

 at the back male 4 fern. 6 all fimbriate, fruit scabridly hispid. P. sikkim- 

 ensis, Muell. Arg. in LinncEa, xxxii. 48, and in DC. I. c. 425. Agyneia 

 tetrandra, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 125 ; Wall. Cat. 7951. 



ASSAM, Hamilton. SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-2000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. 



A small bush, branches terete. Leaves very membranous, pale green when dry, 

 paler beneath, base cuneate or rounded, nerves 5-7 pair very faint ; petiole T ^ in.; 

 stipules ovate and subulate, caducous. Male fl. -^ in. diam. ; pedicels capillary, 

 T V-e- in., springing from minute clusters of bracts; sepals rounded, deeply toothed; 

 disk dilated, deeply 4-lobed ; staminal column very short. Fern. fl. i in. diam.; 

 pedicel very slender, longer than the leaves, curved. Sepals less deeply toothed than 

 in the male, hardly enlarged in fruit ; disk saucer-shaped ; ovary 4-celled ; styles 4, 

 subulate, erect. Fruit ^ in. diam., globose, rufous with rough hairs; cocci crus- 

 taceous. Mueller describes >the sepals of the fern, as entire, but I find them strongly 

 toothed. 



Sect. VIII. CICCA (see p. 287). 



54. P. distichus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 413 ; a tree, 

 quite glabrous, with very robust branches and slender leafy branch- 

 lets, leaves pinnately distichous 2-3 in. petioled obliquely ovate acute, 

 flowers minute densely clustered, clusters axillary or in slender racemes from 

 the thick branches shortly pedicelled. Beddome forester's Man. 191. P. 

 Cheremila, lloxb. Hort. Seng. 114. P. longifolius, Jacq. Hort. Schcenbr. ii. 

 36, t. 194; Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 672. P. Cicca, Muell. Arg. in Linntea xxxii. 

 50. P. tetrandrus, Wall. Cat. 7930. Cicca disticha, Linn. Mant. 124 ; Lamk. 

 III. ii. t. 757, f. 1 ; G-rah. Cat. Bomb. PL 180 ; Dalz. <$f Gibs. Bomb. FL 

 Swppl. 78 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 353. Rheede Sort. Mai. iii. t. 47, 48. 



In Gardens throughout INDIA. DISTEIB. Malay Islands, Madagascar. 



A deciduous tree, 20-30 ft.; branches as thick as the finger; bark very rough, 

 grey ; leafy branchlets 1-2 ft., terete below, angular above. Leaves rather mem- 

 branous ; pale beneath, base usually rounded ; nerves 5-8 pair, arched ; petiole -J^- i- 

 stipules toothed. Flowers most densely clustered, T ^ in. diam., occasionally 2-sexual, 

 sometimes 3-4-rnerous ; pedicels capillary, in. Sepals orbicular. Disk of male 



