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partly scandent : leaves broad or narrow elliptic, ovate, or obovate, 

 obtuse, acutisb at the base, brownish-green above, beneath of the 

 same colour or glaucescent : stipules triangular-linear, broadish at 

 the base, lowest ones of the branchlets more or less distinctly 

 spinesc^ntly hardened and recurved: female pedicels a little 

 longer than the males : fruit at first somewhat berry-shaped, then 

 more dry, depresso-globose, obtusely 6 — 12-ribbed. — P. reticu- 

 latus. Pair. — Anisonema reticulatum, Adr. Jtiss. JEuph. t. 4. 

 1ig. xi. — Kirganelia reticulata, \Saill. Etud. p. 613. — Phyllanthus 

 multiflorus, Willd. Boocl.yior. Ind. III. p. 664 (not Poir). — A. 

 multiflorum, Wighfs Icon. t. 1899. — P. pentandrus, Soxb. in 

 Thwaites' ^um. pi. Zeyl. — P. Wightianus, Wall. Cat. — P. Prieu- 

 rianus, MmU. Arg. in Linn. V. 32. p. 12. — ^A. dubium, Bl. hidjr. 

 — Kirganelia dubia, Baill. lEtud. Gen. JEuph. — K. puberula, do. 



Common in all India. 



Var. h. GiiABEE. — Mull. Arg. in LinnsBa,V. 32, p. 12. — Glabrous : 

 a common variety of the preceding — K. multiflora, Thwaites I. c. 

 — E. Wightiana, Baill. I. c. p. 614. — P. "Wightianus, Wall. — 

 K. eglandulosa, Baill. I. c. — K. intermedia, Baill. I, c— P. mul- 

 tiflorus, Wall, (not Poir) . — P. Kirganelia, Roxh. flor. Ind. III. 

 p. 668. — P. Jamaicensis, Grisebach flora of West Indies, p. 34. 



(28) P. Embiica. {Linn.) 



Ident. Linn. spec. p. 1398. — Dec. 1. c. p. 352. — Eoxb. flor. 

 Ind. Ill p. 671. 



Syn. Emblica officinalis, Gcertn. — Phyllanthus glomeratus, 

 Wall. 



Ungrav. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 548.— Baill. Etud. p. 627. t. 24. 

 fig. 20— 24.— Adr. Juss. Tent. Euph. t. 5. flg. 15.— Wight's Icon, 

 t. 1896. 



Spec. Chae. Tree: leaves densely distichous, narrow linear- 

 elliptic, obtuse at both ends, or a little acute at the apex, re- 

 curved at the margin, glabrous : petioles very short : flowers very 

 numerous, fascicled, males pediceUed, females sessile : glands of 

 the male flowers very often none : urceolus hypogynous, cylin- 

 dric, with many small divisions at the apex : anthers shortly apicu- 

 lated : ovary ovoid : styles large, compressed above, twice djcho- 

 tomously divided, papillose, connate at the base into a column 

 nearly equalling the ovary: fruit globose, large, subbaccate, 

 fleshy, slowly opening as a capsule. 



Common in most parts of India. 



(29) P. poLTBHTiLrs. (Willd.) 

 Ident. Willd. sp. vol. IV. p. 586.— Dec. 1. c. p. 352. 



Syn. P. taxifolius, Don. prod. Flor. I7ep. p. 63, — P. race- 

 mosus. Wall. Cat. M. 7902. 



Ungrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1895. fig, 2, 



