&8 EUPHORB1ACEJE. [PEYLLAKTHUS. 



and often imbricate, subsessile, -J-J in. long, linear-oblong, obtuse 

 and apiculate ; stipules peltate, sagittate, brownish, scarious. 

 Flowers usually solitary, on slender or stout pedicels, the females 

 larger than the males. Sepals about -^ in. long, oblong, obtuse v 

 those of the female flowers slightly enlarged in fruit. Stamens 3, 

 filaments free ; anthers diclymous, the slits very short so that when 

 the cells are confluent the dehiscence appears to be transverse. Styles 

 short, once 2-fid., free or connate. Capsule globose, T \j in. in diam. 

 obscurely 3-lobed, crustaceous, rough but not echinate. Seeds 

 minute, trigonous, rounded on the back, finely tubercled, dark- 

 brown. 



Dehra Dun (Gamble), Pilibhit, N. Oudh in the districts of Kheri and 

 Bahraich (Duthie). DISTRIB. : Throughout the hotter parts of 

 India and up to 2,000 ft. in Kumaon ; also in Ceylon, Malay Islands, 

 China and in the Pacific Islands. 



6. P. Niruri, Linn. Sp. PL 941 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 659 ; 

 F. B. I. v, 298 ; Watt E. D.; Comm. Prod. Ind. 887 ; Prain Beng. 

 PI. 936 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 587. Vern. Jar-dmla, jangli-dmli. 



A glabrous annual, up to 2 ft. high. Stems often branching from the 

 base, angular ; branchlets slender, spreading. Leaves many, subsessile. 

 distichous and often overlapping, J J- in. long, elliptic-oblong, 

 obtuse or rarely subacute, glaucous beneath, nerves obscure ; stipules 

 lanceolate-subulate, acute. Flowers axillary, numerous, very minute, 

 the males solitary or 2-3-nate, the females solitary, on short pedicels. 

 Sepals of male flowers in. long, rounded ; those of the female twice 

 as long, oblong, subacute, white -margined, not enlarging in fruit. 

 Stamens 3 ; anthers didymous, on a short column. Styles minute, 

 free, 2-lobed. Disk of males of minute glands ; of females annular, 

 lobed. Capsule depressed -globose, ^ in. in cliam., smooth, obscurely 

 lobed. Seeds trigonous, rounded on the back and with parallel 

 regular longitudinal ribs. 



A common garden weed and in cultivated fields within the area ; Dehra 

 Dun (Duthie), Moradabad (T. Thomson), Bundelkhand (Mrs. Bell), 

 etc. Flowers in July and August. DISTRIB. : Throughout the 

 hotter parts of India, also in Ceylon and in most tropical countries, 

 but not in Australia. The plant is much used as a diuretic by the 

 natives of India. 



P DISTICHUS, Muell.-Arg.; F. B. 1. v, 304; Watt E. D.; Prain Beng. 

 PI. 936; Gamble Man. 600; Brandis Ind. Trees 570; Cooke Fl. Bomb, 

 ii, 589. P. longifolius, Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 672. Cicca disticha, Linn. 



