354 | RUPHORBIACES. [ Cicea. 
as many glands; ovary rudimentary in the males, in the females 
globular, the 3 styles almost sessile, 2-cleft; glands 5, distinet ; 
berry-like capsules white, rather dry, the size of a pepper-grain, 
3-coccous, smooth. 
Hasz.—Burma, probably Ava.—Fl. B.S. 
6. C. obovata (Securinega obovata, Muell. Arg.; Bedd. Sylv. 
Madr., 197; Brand. For. Fl., 455).— Yae-chin-ya.—A leaf-shedding 
large shrub, often growing out in a little tree (12—15-+short 
42—1), unarmed, all parts glabrous; the flowering branchlets soft 
and sharply 4-cornered ; leaves variable, from elliptical to obovate 
‘and oboval, on a slender petiole 1 lin. long or somewhat longer, 
acute or obtuse at the base, 1-2 in. long, rounded or retuse or 
rarely acute to acuminate, membranous, pale-coloured or glaucescent 
beneath, the nerves thin; flowers minute, yellow, glabrous, dioe- 
cious, on slender pedicels, (the males on longer ones! , densely clus- 
tered in the axils of the young leaves or along the leafless branch- 
lets; calyx of both sexes 5-parted, the segments oblong, concave ; 
stamens 5, free, alternating with 5 glands; ovary flask-like-nar- 
rowed into the short style-column ; style-branches 3, 2-cleft ; disk 
annular-5-gonous ; capsules berry-like, with the fleshy pericarp thin 
and white, only 1-14 lin. in diameter, 3-coccous. 
Haz.—Common in the savannah jungles and along rivers all over Burma 
= fo and Chittagong down to Tenasserim.—Fl. Fr. Apr.-May.—l.— 
7. C. reticulata (Phyllanthus reticulatus, Poir; Bedd. Sylv. 
Madr., 190; Brand. For. Fl., 453).—A_ leaf-shedding large shrub, 
12-15 ft. high, the young parts shortly pubescent, rarely quite 
glabrous; stipules triangular-linear, usually oming spiny- 
hardened and recurved; leaves small, elliptical to elliptically and 
obovate-oblong, rounded at the base, on a thin often puberulous 
erect, 2-lobed; capsules depressed-globular, berry-like, eg 
_Var. 1, reticulata proper: young shoots and leaves beneath 
puberulous. . 
. Var. 2, glabra, Thw. : all parts glabrous. . 
