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ing from the densely 6— 15-braeteated small branches, sharply 

 trigonal-obconieal, smooth : lobelets of the male truncated calyx 

 inflexed : fructiferous, calyx small, not accrescent : connectivum 

 of the anthers not lengthened out : ovary contracted below the 

 apex and with depressed top^: capsule disciform and tumid at the 

 top. 



Far. GENriNA. — Shrub : leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, aoutish, 

 glabrous, somewhat of the same colour. — Phyllanthus rhamnoides, 

 Willd. — Melanthesa rhamnoides, Wight's Icon. t. 1898. — P. vitis 

 Idoea, Roxh. flor. Ind. III.^. 665. — P. tinctorius, VaM. sched. ex 

 Baill. Huph. p. 633. 



Peninsula. Mysore. Bengal. 



GENUS IX. PUTEANJIYA. 

 Dioecia Triandria. iSex : Si/st : 



Deriv. Prom Putra, a son, and Juvvi, a native term applied 

 to various kinds of Picus. 



Gek. Chae. Segments of the calyx lightly imbricated : petals 

 and disc none : stamens central : anthers with Z' clefts : cells 

 adnate lengthways : cells of the ovary 2-ovuled : fruit not opening 

 as a capsule : endocarp bony : seed albuminous : cotyledons flat, 

 ovate, palmiti-nerved. — Trees : leaves alternate, shortly petioled, 

 bistipulate, thickly feather-nerved, more or less serrato-dentate : 

 inflorescences situated in the axils of the leaves : flowers dioecious, 

 males glomerate or fascicled, . females longer pedicelled, few or 

 solitary : male calyx 2 — 5-parfced, female 4— 6-parted : segments* 

 narrow: stamens 3 — 2 : filaments monad elphous, diadelphous or 

 free: anthers globosely ellipsoid, thickish, obtuse at both ends: 

 ovary 3 — ^2-celled : fruit 1-celled by abortion, 1-seeded. 



(1) P. EoxBtrE&Hii. {Wall.) 



Ident. Wall. Tent. Plor. Nep. p. 61.— Dec. prod. XV. s. 2. 

 p. 443. 



Syn. Nageia Putranjiva, Boxh.flor. Ind. III.^. 766. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1876. 



Spec. Chae. Branchlets and petioles pubescent: leaves 

 elliptic, unequal-sided at the base, serrately denticulate : glome- 

 rules of male flowers numerous : segments of male calyx densely 

 ciliate-pubescent, sparingly puberulous at the back : ovary tawny- 

 silky : fruit oblong-ellipsoid, clothed with thick, pale, rusty hairs : 

 flowers small, yellowish-white. 



Coromandel mountains. Concans. Oude. Palghaut. Plower- 

 ing in the hot weather. 



