170 AN ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION 



Also occurs in Perak, and on the limestone rocks of 

 Kota Glanggi, Pahang. A pretty little bush or treelet, 

 only occuring on limestone rocks. 

 Phyllanthus urinaria, L. Bangtaphan (Keith). 



Distrib. whole tropics. 

 Ph. nirwri, L. Lankawi, Kwah (Curtis). 



Distrib. whole tropics. 

 Ph. madraspatcnsis, Ij. Lankawi (Curtis). Bangtaphan (Keith). 

 Distrib. Tropics, Africa and Asia. 



Ph. simplex, Retz. Perlis in fields about Kanga, in long grass, 

 (H897). 



Distrib. India. Malaya, China, Australia. 



Ph. colimmaris, Muell. Arg. Lankawi, Pulau Tanjong Sirih 

 (Curtis, 2501). 



Distrib. Pegu to Tenasserim. 



Ph. boeobotry aides, Wall? Lankawi (Ridley). 



A very curious and distinct plant. In young fruit, 

 the fruit is in slender spikes, several in an axillary tuft, 1$ 

 inch long, or solitary 5 inches long. Bracts lanceolate 

 obtuse; fruits distant globose with a short discoid stigma 

 as in Breynia, but there are 5 ovate sepals. 



Ph. (Beidia) secundiflora, n. sp. 



Shrub with slender branches, white, tomentosely 

 hairy. Leaves herbaceous than elliptic acute, base round-" 

 ed broad, very unequal-sided, sparingly hairy on both 

 sides, glancous beneath, (deciduous when dry) 2 inches 

 long, 1 inch wide at thebase, petiole to inch long, pubes- 

 cent. Flowers in small tufts of hairy bracts. Males not seen. 

 Females secund. Pedicels in fruit, 4 inch long, pubescent, 

 solitary with two lanceolate, acuminate bracts, sepals 

 triangular, oblong lacerate. Fruit globose, dark brown 

 with scurfy papillae at the tip, larger than in the next 

 species. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



