Se ae eT 
Phyllanthus,) EUPHORBIACEA. 933 
cicle rarely replaced by a short raceme. ¢ Sepals ee in a 
turbinate or hemispheric calyx, with limb truncate, m: en 
thickened and lobulate gatas the ere inflexed, at rounded 
lobes. Petals 0. Disk 0. Sta s 8; filaments connate in a 
column ; anthers slender, nities whe length of column ; cells 
linear, parallel, distinct. Pistillode 0. Sepals connate in a 
coriaceous hemis ispheric, turbinate, campanulate or rotate calyx; 
limb broadly, shortly 6-lobed, often much accrescent and disciform 
in fruit. Petals 0. Disk 0. Staméinodes 0. Carpels connate in 
a 3-celled ovary, fleshy above, globose, or truncate or depressed = 
the top; ovules 2 in each cell; styles 3, sessile or connate in 
short column, each 2-fid or 2- rte or stigmas 3, simple, saan: 
and immersed in a cavity at top of ovary. Fruit globose or 
depressed, more or me scenulai indehiscent or with a 6-valved 
pericarp enclosing 3-6 imperforate, indehiscent cocci. Seeds with 
membranous testa; hilum without caruncle; albumen fleshy; 
cotyledons broad; radicle long. 
Calyx of female greatly enlarged in fruit 
Calyx of female slightly enlarged in fruit rhamnoides 
1848. BREYNIA PATENS itecips F, B. I. v. 829. Phyllanthus 
patens F, I, iii, 
Tirhut; N. Bagi? Chittagong ; Chota Nagpur ; Orissa. 
s or ser tree. 
1849. Breynra RHAMNOIDES Muell.-Arg.; F. B. I. v. 830; E. D. 
B. 858. Phytlanthus Vitis- tdi F. I. iii. 665. 
In most of the provinces. 
A shrub or small tree. Beng. Kali sitki. 
822. Phyllanthus Linn. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees ; leaves 2-farious or distichous, alternate, 
quite entire, the branchlets with tl leaves often resembling 
pinnate leaves: ; stipules usually narr or 0. Flowers small, 
monecious, axillary or on old nodes, aes usually many, fascicled, 
subsessile or pedicelled, rarely few or solitary, females in the same 
or in distinct axils, longer pedicelled, solitary or few; perianth 
simple. 3 Sepals 4-6, free or very shortly connate, imbricate 
and more or less distinctly 2-seriate. Disk glandular, rarely 
(§ Emblica $)0. Stamens 3, rarely (§ Cicca) 4, or (§ Kirganelia) 
5, in centre of elaiwenes filaments connate or free ; anthers 2-celled, 
oblong or didymous, rarely reniform ; cells parallel or ae ; 
patens 
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