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2-parted : seeds endowed with a hilar cavity • embryo lightly 

 curved. 



" (1) M. PATENS. (Muller.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. p. 437. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves memhranaceous : female flowers solitary, 

 males proceeding from minute about 6 — 9-bracteolated race- 

 mules: calyx obconical, sharply lengthened out, and crenately 

 12-lobed round the base of the segments. 



Var. a. obiongieolia. — Shrub : leaves oblong-ovate or oblong- 

 elliptic, obtuse or subacute at both ends, glaucous pale beneath : 

 pedicels somewhat reflexed, subcapillacemis : fruit subglobose, 

 obtusely 3-furrowed.— M. obliqua, WigU's loon. 1. 1898. Bheede 

 Mai. V. t. 43. 



Silhet. 



Var. i. TUEBiNATA. — Leaves slightly approximate, ovate. — 

 Phyllanthus turbinatus, Soxb.Jfor. Ind. III.^. 666. 



Mountains of Orissa. 



Var. c. TtriiaAEis. — Leaves sKghtly approximate, broadly 

 elliptic, round obtuse at both ends, obscurely glaucescent beneath : 

 male pedicels capillaceous, flexuose, females straight, stronger. 

 — Melanthesa turbinata, Wight's Icon. t. 1897. 



Khasia. Mysore. Concan. Malabar. Common on the Neil- 

 gherries. 



Var. d. GENTJiNA. — Leaves small, more approximate, obovate or 

 ovate or broad-elliptic : pedicels more slender, males aggregated : 

 ovary shortly turbinate-ovoid, broadly truncated : styles 2-partite 

 to tlie middle. — Phyllanthus patens, Boxh.flor. Ind. III. p. 667. ; 



Near Chittagong. 



GENUS VIII. BEEYNIA. 



nionoecia Triandria. Sex : Syst : 



G-EN. Ohae. Male calyx deeply gamosepalous, turbinate, 6-lobed 

 in 2 rows, transversely sub-appendiculate at the back : petals none : 

 stamens central : anthers 2-cleft : cells adnate lengthways : cells 

 of the ovary 2-ovuled : fruit baccato-subcapsular, tricoccous : 

 seed exarillate, ecarunculate, albuminous : radicle shorter than the 

 broad cotyledons. — Shrubs, agreeing in habit and chiiracter ■yvith 

 the preceding genus, but different in the structure of the seeds and 

 absence of arU. 



(1) B. EHAMTTOIBBS. (Muller.) 



Idem. Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. p. 440. 



Spec. Chae. Leaves membranaceous : male flowers proceed* 



