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divisions entire or irregularly 2.1obed : fruit capsular, lightly de- 

 presso-globose, pure white, succulent. 



"Widely distributed throughout the country. 



(2) S. GEiSEA. {Muller.) 



Ident: Dec. 1. c. p. 451. 



Spec. Chae. Shrub : branchlets numerous, distichously leafy : 

 leaves elliptic, shortly acute at both ends, brown, glaucescent 

 beneath, glabrous: female flowers solitary: capsules globose: 

 styles suberect, scarcely 2-lobed. 



Khasia hills. 



(3) S. LErcoPTErs. (MuUer.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 451. 



Syn. Muggea leueopyrus, MZZJ.— Xylophylla Lucena, Boik. 

 — F. xerocarpa. Ad. Juss. — P. virosa, Dalz. Bonib.flora. — P. "Walli- 

 chiana, Baill. Mud. Mwph. p. 592. — Phyllanthus virosus, JVilld. 



Miffrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 1875.— Ad. Juss. Tent. Euph. t. 2. 

 fig. 7. 



Spec. Chae. Tree: branchlets spinescent at the apex, gla- 

 brous: leaves obovate, obtuse or retuse, acute or cuneate- 

 narrowed at the base, paler below : calycine segments broadish 

 hyaline at the margin, and usually deeply lacinulate: male 

 flowers very numerous : capsule depresso-globose : branches of 

 the styles narrow, entire. 



Peninsula. 



GENUS XI. BACOAUEEA. 

 Dioecia Decandria. Sex : 



Deriv. So named from the golden colour of the berries. 



Gen. Chae, Calys imbricated in sestivation : petals none : 

 disc suppressed or developed : stamens inserted round the base of 

 the rudimentary ovary : anthers 2-cleft : cells connate lengthways : 

 cells of the ovary 2-ovuled : fruit not opening as a capsule, central 

 column, however, developed: seeds arillate, albulninous: coty- 

 ledons ovate, 3-nerved : radicle short. — Trees : leaves alternate, 

 petioled, bistipulate, simple, feather-nerved, most frequently 

 elliptic or obovate-lanceolate, acute at the base, obtusely cuspi- 

 date-aeuminate at the apex, entire or somewhat toothed, distantly 

 gland-bearing at the margin beneath : ribs beneath prominent, 

 glabrous or clothed with simple hairs : inflorescences axillary, 

 racemiform- or somewhat spiciform-panicled, unisexual: flowers 

 dioecious or male in some branches, in others of the same tree 

 female, bracteate, usually situated in threes or fives in the axil of 

 each bract, pediceUed : bracts often for a long distance connate 



