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(9) A. DiANDErM. {Tulasne.) 



Ident. Tul. 1. c. p. 198.— Dec. 1. c. p. 266. 



Spec. Chae. Stipules linear-lanceolate, longish : bracts broad- 

 ovate, rotund obtuse : calyx urceolar, shortly 4i-toothed, dian- 

 drous : disc hairy : ovary obovoid, attenuated above, glabrous. 



Var. a. otattjm. — Tul. 1. c. p. 198. — Shrub : branchlets tawny- 

 tomentose : leaves broad ovate or obovate or elliptic, at both ends 

 rotund-obtuse or shortly and obtusely acutate, often mucronulate : 

 calyx glabrescent within. — A. sylvestre, Wall. Cat. No. 7281. 



Mountainous districts. 



Var. h. GENunrcrM. — Shrub : branchlets tawny -tomentose : 

 leaves elliptic, subacuminate, glabrous, pubescent or subciliated 

 at the margin : petioles rusty-villous : racemes terminal, panicu- 

 lately branched, rusty, somewhat glabrous : calyx glabrous out- 

 side, tawny -hairy within: drupe ellipsoid, shortly acuminate, 

 putamen compressed, coarsely pitted. — A. diandrum, Soth. 

 Spreng. — Stilago diandra, Roxh. Cor. II. t. 166. Mor. Ind. III. 

 p. 759. 



Circar Mountains. Neilgherries. Canara. Flowering in 

 June. 



Var. c. LAiifCEOi-ATUM. — Tul. 1. c. p. 199. — Shrubby : branchlets 

 and leaves afterwards glabrous : leaves lanceolate, narrowed at 

 the base and apex, sharply acuminated at the apex : racemes at 

 first spiciform, dense-flowered, slender, flowers at length slenderly 

 pedicelled. — A. lanceolarium, W'^all. Cat. JNo. 7284. Wight's 

 Icon. t. 766. — Stilago laneeolaria, SoscJ). I. c.p. 760. 



Chittagong. Khasia. 



Var.'d. PARTiEOLirM. — Tul. 1. c. p. 198. — Small tree : branch- 

 lets soon glabrate : leaves obovate-lanceolate, acute at both ends, 

 narrowed towards the base. — A. Wallichianum, Fresl. Epimel. 

 p. 235. 



Silhet. 



aENTJS VI. PHYLLANTHUS. 



moiicecia Decandria. Sex: Syst: 



*" Deriv. Prom Fhyllon, a leaf, and AntJios, a flower, the flowers 

 being produced from the edges of the leaves. 



Gen. Chae. Segments of the male calyx imbricated : petals 

 none : glands of the disc alternating with the calycine segments, 

 or suppressed : stamens central : cells of the (2 — 15-celled) ovary 

 2-ovuled ; fruit capsular, 2 — polycoccous : seeds ecarunculate, 

 without aril, albuminous : embryo straightish : cotyledons flat- 

 tened. — Trees or usually shrubs, very often undershrubs, rarely 

 herbs : flower-bearing branchlets very often distichous, sparingly 



