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2. P NIRURI, Linn. Annual, erect-branched ; branches her- 

 baceous, ascending ; floriferous branchlets filiform ; leaves elliptic, 

 mucronate entire, glabrous ; male and female flowers in separate 

 axils, male on the lower ones ; dehiscence of anthers transverse, 

 glands in the female bifid and trifid ; capsule globose, smooth, 

 2 seeds in each cell; seeds triangular. A common weed. Wight 

 Ic. 1894. 



3. P SIMPLEX, Willd. Perennial, diffuse ; branches flattened ; 

 leaves bifarious, lanceolate, sessile, smooth, entire, three-quarters 

 of an inch long ; stipules obliquely cordate ; flowers axillary, male and 

 female mixed ; capsule minutely tubercled ; seeds black, muricated ; 

 dehiscence of anthers transverse ; styles divided to the base. This 

 is an example of Wight's genus Macraea, separated by him on 

 account of the filaments bein^ separate. 



4. P POLYPHYLLUS, Willd. A shrub; floriferous branchlets 

 many-leaved; leaves linear, obtuse-mucronate, minute ; flowers 

 axillary ; female ones above; stamens monadelphous; anthers vertical, 

 cohering. Fringes the banks of rivers towards the Ghauts. Wight 

 Ic. 1895, fig. 2 ; Syn. P lawii, Graham's Cat. p 181. 



21. MELANTHESA, Blume. 



1. M TURBINATA, Wight. Ic. 1897. Shrubby or arboreous; 

 floriferous branchlets bifarious ; leaves oval-obtuse, entire, some- 

 times unequal-sided ; flowers axillary, male and female in the same 

 axil ; male flower turbinate, six-lobed ; female calyx deeply 

 6-lobed, enlarging with the fruit, red ; fruit when ripe dry and 

 capsular ; seeds 3, angular, arilled at the base. Malabar and 

 Worlee Hills, Bombay; Concan jungles, common. Syn. Phyllan- 

 thus turbinatus, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 666. 



22. ANISONEMA, Juss. 



1. A MULTIFLORA, Wight Ic. 1899. Shrubby, climbing, 

 primary branches twiggy ; young shoots pubescent ; floriferous 

 branchlets angular ; leaves oval-obtuse, bifarious ; flowers axillary 

 aggregated, several males, and usually one female ; male flowers 

 purplish ; berries size of a pea, dark-purple or black, very common, 

 almost always near water or damp places. This species extends 

 to Sind, where it is found in the forests of great size, climbing to 

 the tops of the highest trees. Syn. Phyllanthus multiflorus, 

 Willd. 



23. CERATOGYNUM, Wight. 



1. C. RHAMNOIDES, Wight Ic. 1900.-- -1 to 1 } foot high, 

 a little shrubby ; young shoots angular ; leaves alternate, short- 



