FlwggiaJ] cxxxv. EUPHORBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 329 



lar. A. Juss. Tent. Euphorb. 106, t. 2, f . 7 A ; Wight Ic. t. 1875; Thwaites 

 Enum. 281. F. xerocarpa, A. Juss. I.e. t. 2, f. 7 B. F. virosa, Dalz. fy 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 236. F. W,allichiana, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 592. 

 Securinega Leucopyrus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 451 ; Brand. 

 For. Fl. 456, t. 54 (in part] ; Beddome Foresters Man. 197, t. 24, f. 4 and 

 1-6 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 354. S. virosa, Baill. Adans. vi. 334. 

 Cioca Leucopyrus, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 353. Phyllanthus albicans, Wall. Cat. 

 7937. P. Lencopyrus, Keen. mss. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 658 ; Wall. Cat. 7938. 

 P. Lucena, Heyne mss. Xylophylla Lucena, Roth Nov. Sp. 185. 



The PANJAB PLAIN, Duthie. DECCAN PENINSULA, from Canara southwards. 

 BUKMA, Griffith. CEYLON, abundant. 



This differs from F. microcarpa more in habit and foliage than in flowers or fruit ; 

 the leaves are smaller, broader, and more rigid, rarely 1 in. long, with longer petioles, 

 the nerves less distinct, the flowers even smaller, the fruit identical. Mueller describes 

 the styles as entire, and they are so represented by Wight, but they are usually 

 2-fid, as in Brandis' figure. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



F. PHYLLANTHOIDES, Baill. ~Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 592 ; Muell. Arg-, in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 452 ; an altogether doubtful plant, said by Baillon to differ from the 

 Dahurian (Securinega ramijlora, Muell. Arg. 1. c. 449) in the leaves not being entire, 

 and to have been collected in the Himalaya by Strachey and Winterbottom, and to 

 exist in the Paris Museum; where, however, Mueller searched for it fruitlessly. 



13. BREVNXA, Forst. 



Shrubs or small trees, leaves small, alternate, petioled, quite entire, 

 often distichous. Flowers minute, axillary, monoecious. Petals and Disk 0. 

 MALE FL. Calyx turbinate or hemispheric, truncate, rim of the tube ofte,n 

 much thickened and lobulate opposite the minute lobes which are inflected 

 and rounded. Stamens 3, filaments united into a column ; anthers adnate 

 to the whole length of the column very slender, cells linear parallel distinct. 

 Pistillode 0. FEM. FL. Calyx coriaceous, hemispheric turbinate campanu- 

 late or rotate < broadly shortly 6-lobed, fruiting often greatly enlarged and 

 disciform. Staminodes 0. Ovary globose or truncate or depressed at the 

 top, fleshy above, 3-celled ; styles 3, sessile or united in a short column, 

 2-fid or 2-lobed ; or stigmas 3, minute simple immersed in a cavity at the 

 top of the ovary ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit more or less succulent, glo- 

 bose or depressed, indehiscent or with a 6-valved pericarp, and 3-6 trigonous 

 imperforate indehiscent cocci. Seeds with a membranous testa and fleshy 

 albumen, ecarunculate ; cotyledons broad, radicle long. Species about 12, 

 Tropical Asia, Africa and Pacific Islands. 



* Calyx of female greatly enlarged in fruit. 



1. B. patens, Benth. in Gen. Plant, iii. 277 ; quite glabrous, leaves 

 membranous elliptic oblong or ovate obtuse or subacute, style exserted with 

 3 2-tid arms, fruit depressed 6-12-seeded seated on the greatly enlarged 

 calyx. Melanthesopsis patens, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 437; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 348 ; Beddome Forester's Man. 196. M. variabilis, Muell. 

 Arg. in Linnaa xxxii. 75. Melanthesa obliqua, Wiglit Ic. t. 1898. M. tnr- 

 binata, Wight Ic. t. 1897; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 234. Phyllanthus 

 patens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 667 ; Wall. Cat. 7911. P. turbinatus, Keen. mss. 

 in Roxb. 1. c. 666 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 180. P. suffultus, Wall. Cat. 

 7939. P. retusus, Dennst. in DUlw. Rev. Sort. Mai. 24. P. Naviruli, 

 Miquel Plant. Hohenack., No. 1556. P. pomaceus, Moon Cat. CeyL PI. 65. 



