934 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Phyllanthus. 
Panag eons vertical or transverse. Pistillode 0. ? 
as Peta Disk glandular. Carpels connate 
in 5. celled, wr S Cicca sometimes and § Kirganelia) 4-more- 
celled ovary; ovules 2 in each cell; styles es ree or connate, usually 
2-fid, with slender arms, rarely dined Fruit of 3 crustaceous or 
coriaceous, rarely bony, 2-valved cocci, with or without a separable 
a a rarely (§ Hmblica) fleshy epicarp, sometimes (§ Kir- 
ganelia) a 4-8-celled berry or bods icca) a drupe with a 3-4-celled 
bony tat Seeds 8-gonous ; testa crustaceous ; hilum with- 
out strophiole; albumen a. : ‘molvleetaen flat or flexuous. 
*Sepals 5-6 in both sexes ; stamens either 5 or 3; styles 3 :—[p. 935] 
Stamens 5 in 2 series, the three inner filaments connate; anthers 
erect, slits vertical ; styles very minute ; stigmas 2-lobed ; fruit a 4-8- 
celled berry ; cells 2-seeded, the seeds superposed, one pendulous from 
apex, another from middle of cell (§ Kirganelia) ; a shrub with slender 
NEI sige distichous, 1-2 in. long -reticulatus. 
ents united in a short or long column, rarely 
Sta amen 
(S Sepiliandies sometimes) free sia recurved :— 
thers erect, slits vertical ; connective usually produced :— 
Fruit large, fleshy, with 3 bony, 2-valved cocci; styles united 
below, each twice bifid : disk a from male flower (§ E ee 
de leaves very smali, closely pinnately set on the 
SES fie’ 
seeeee 
Fruit a seaiahe of 3 crustaceous, 2-valved cocci; styles once bifid, 
free; disk present in flowers of both sexes (§ ate mosey age 
r apic 
A shrub ; leaves Saat oblong, *2—-25 in. long, obtuse 
late, very shortly petioled, close-set, distichous ; nerves eel 
8 — PALE; BOLACOOULS. .c0 coco Ue tinny eS cdegeons teense ae Lawit 
erbs; leaves ager or ieee glaucous beneath ; nerves 
seth: ; stipules 
Leaves aedak zen in. ae cuneately obovate ; sepals 
oad, green with white margins .............+- maderaspatensis. 
ishvea distichously oe hoa set, ‘2-6 in. long , oblong. 
or linear-oblong ; sepals ciliolate caurinari. 
Anthers didymous or reniform ; ae subglobose, slits very short, 5° 
nt the ise 
sule of 3 crustaceous or thin-walled, 2-valved cocci; styles free O° 
connate below, once bifid (§ 7 Sipgieaale legac 
Stipules agian ubsagittate ; annual or perennial herbs or under- 
shrubs with compressed Ce and distichous leaves ‘3-1 in, 
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