Sauropus.] cxxxv. EUPHORBIAOE^S. (J. D. Hooker.) 335 



11. S. quadrang'ularis, Muell. Arg. in Linntea xxxii. 72, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 242; a dwarf glabrous shrub, branchlets angled, leaves 

 very shortly petioled elliptic or broadly ovate or obovate obtuse or subacute 

 pennjnerved, sepals of male tongue-shaped obtuse, of fern, rounded or broader 

 than long, fruit globose, epicarp thin bursting more or less stellately, cocci 

 with a basal ventral depression on each side of which is a tooth. ? Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 530. S. Ceratogynuin, Baill. Etudes Gen. Euphorb. 635 (excl. 

 citation of Wight &[ Thwaites) ; Muell. Arg. in DC. 1. c. 243 (excl. many 

 citations). Phyllanthus rhamnoides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 663 (not of Willd.). 

 P. quadrangularis, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 585. P. Myrtillus, Ham. mss. P. 

 tenellus, Wall. Cat. 7892 A (the large specimen only). P. Leschenaultii, /3. 

 tenella, Muell. Arg. in Linncea xxxii. 37. ? Ceratogynum rhamnoides, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1900 ; Dalz. fr Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 234. 



NORTHERN BEHAE ; at Moughyr, Hamilton. COROMANDEL COAST, in culti- 

 vated fields, Roxburgh. The CON CAN and MXSOEE, Klein, Dalzell, &c. ? BUEMA ; 

 common, Kurz. 



Plant about a foot high, with many slender leafy terete branches, the shoots alone 

 being angled. Leaves % by ^ in., or broader, thin, nerves 4 or 5 pair, margins and those 

 of the fern, sepals most minutely rough; petiole -fVT^ in., ver . v slender; stipules 

 minute, ovate -lanceolate. Flowers shortly pedicelled, solitary or male and female from 

 the same axil (or the males long-pedicelled and in racemes from the lower axils, 

 Roxburgh), male very minute, -^ in. diam., fern. in. Styles very short, on the 

 margin of a crenulate ridge that bounds the broad very concave top of the 

 ovary ; arms subulate, recurved, eventually immersed in the top of the fruit. Fruit 

 in. diam., depressed-globose, narrower than the enlarged calyx. Seeds T \j in. long ; 

 albumen scanty. There has been confusion in respect of this plant, which is un- 

 doubtedly Roxburgh's Phyll. rhamnoides and the Ceratogynum rhamnoides of Dalzell 

 and Gibson. Wight's figure of Ceratogynum is so unsatisfactory, and differs so much in 

 the broadly ovate acute leaves, the large male flowers with lanceolate acuminate sepals, 

 and fern, with acute ciliolate sepals, that 1 have queried its identity. S. quadrangu~ 

 laris is apparently a very rare plant. Mueller states that specimens are in Herb. Hook, 

 from Wight, but 1 find none. The only ones I have seen are Wallich's single speci- 

 men on sheet 7092 A, from Herb. Hamilton ; another in Hamilton's Herbarium (in 

 Edinburgh Botanical Gardens), both from Monghyr, and Dalzell's from the Concan. 

 Of the synonyms, &c., cited by Mueller under S. Ceratogynum, Wallich's 7892 B, cited 

 as .P. Leschtnaultii, . tenella, is a'mixture of several species of Phyllanthus ; P. rotun- 

 difolius, No. 7892 D of Wallich, is, I think, a barren specimen ofBreynia patens ; and 

 P bacciformis, No. 7909, is Sauropus pubescens. Baillon erroneously cites VVight 

 as authority for referring Ceratogynum to Sauropus. I )>ave seen no Burmese 

 specimens ; Kurz has a variety pubescens which may be the following, and probably 

 his Burmese S. quadrangularis (IS. rhamnoides) is S. brevipes. 



12. S. pubescens, Hook. f. ; branches compressed and leaves on both 

 surfaces finely tomentose, leaves small very shortly petioled elliptic sub- 

 acute, calyx-lobes externally tomentose, of the male cuneately quadrate 

 retuse, of fern, rounded. Phyllanthus bacciformis, Herb. Ham. in Wall. 

 Cat. 7909. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA, and along its base ; the Morung, Hamilton ; Siligoree, at 

 the foot of the Sikkirn Hills, Clarke. 



Branches slender, strict, obscurely 2-winged here and there. Leaves f -|- in., 

 membranous, nerves 3 pairs ; petiole -^ in. ; stipules minute. Floioers T V~T\T i n - 

 diam., solitary red ; pedicels ^ in.., very slender. Hamilton, in a ticket attached to 

 the specimen in Wallich's Herbarium, queries this being J\ bacciformis, \\hich mark 

 of doubt is omitted in Wall. Cat. 



13. S. brevipes, Muell. Arg. in Linn^a xxxii. 73, and in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. ii. 242 ; quite glabrous, branchlets filiform angular, leaves shortly 



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