932 BENGAL PLANTS. [Agyneia. 
solitary; perianth simple; bracts usually numerous, sass 
¢ Sepals 6, gland-dotted, thickened except the white, membra- 
ous margins. Disk 6-lobed. Stamens 3, central, cannes anthers 
subsessile on the column; cells parallel; dehiscence extrorse. 
Pistillode 0. ? Sepals 6, acute, not margined. Disk 0. Carpels 
fa) an ovoid, truncate, 3-celled ovary; ovules 2 in each 
cell; styles very short, sunk in the top of the ovary, 2-fid. Fruit 
a capsule, splitting into three 2-valved cocci. Seeds slender, 
curved, with an elongated hilum; albumen copious, fleshy ; coty- 
ledons flat, broad. 
1846. Acynera Baccrrormis A. Juss.; F. B. I. v. 285. Phyllan- 
thus bacciformis F. I. iii. 661. 
. Beng ndribuns. 
A glabrous annual or biennial herb. 
820. Sauropus Bl. 
Small shrubs or undershrubs; leaves alternate, distichous, 
mbranous, quite entire; stipules minute. Flowers monecious, 
minute, axillary, clustered or eon ; perianth simple; pedicels 
distinct. ¢ Sepals connate in a disk- hike, urceolate or turbinate, 
6-lobed or 6-cleft calyx ; mouth eee with oa thickenings 
that meet round the stamens. Petals 0. Disk 0. Stamens 3; 
filaments connate in a short, truncate, 3-gonous odtumn 
sessile on the angles; cells linear or srsnetin poll dehis- 
cence extrorse. Pistillode ? Sepals a 6-cleft, 
acerescent calyx. Petals 0. Di sk 0. Ca ipete wad in an 
ovoid or globose, 8-celled ovary, with rounded or concave apex; 
ovules 2 in each cell; styles 8, very short, spreading, 2-fid or 
rti 
se y 
6-valved or breaking up irregularly, containing 6 indehiscent 
3-gonous, crustaceous or bony cocci. Seeds with = albumen ; 
embryo straight or nearly so; cotyledons flat, broa 
847. SAUROPUS QUADRANGULARIS Muell.-Arg.; F. RB. I. v. 335. 
hyllanthus rhamnoides F.. I. iii. 668. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur. 
A dwarf, glabrous undershrub. 
821. Breynia Forst. 
rubs or small trees ; Beeried small, alternate, petioled, entire, 
inn distichous. Flower cecious, minute, ax! ; peri 
simple ; péaibeds distinct, oltiaey, or the males fascicled, the fas- 
