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CHINA. 



[Euphorbiacea. 



collection was obtained from Singapore, Silhet, the Calcutta Botanic Garden, and Courtallum ; the first is 

 probably identical with Rumphius' plant, the last with the Ceylon one, and the two others with that culti- 

 vated in this country, the seeds of which were forwarded by the late Dr. Carey. 



Ord. LXXII. EUPHORBIACEiE. Juss. 



1. Glochidion Sinicum. — Bradleia Sinica. Gcertn. — Roxb. Fl. Ind.3.p. 700. — Phyllanthus 

 villosa. Poir. in Lam. Enc. Meth. 5. p. 297 ? 



We have only received it from Rev. G. H. Vachell, n. 153, collected in Lappas Island. 



2. Glochidion mode ; ramulis compressis, petiolis pedunculisque pubesccntibus, foliis 

 petiolatis ovalibus basi retusis apice vix acuminatis subtus molliter pubescentibus, adultis 

 supra glabris nervis pubescentibus, pedunculis petiolo subdimidio brevioribus multifloris, 

 pedicellis masculis pedunculos subsequantibus, fcemineis nlifbrmibus 2-3-plo longioribus. — 

 Phyllanthus obscurus. Willd. ? 



From Roxburgh's character, this appears to be closely allied to his Bradleia hirsuta (Fl. Ind. 3. p. 699). 

 In the few specimens we have seen, and which we owe to Mr. Millett, the ovary and young fruit are con- 

 stantly injured by insects : we refer it, however, without hesitation, to Glochidion, as denned by M. Adrien 

 de Jussieu, from the structure of the male flower and of the stigma. We may remark, that the character given 

 by him must be altered, if Bradleia pinnata, Roxb., in which the fruit is said to have 8-10 cells, and B. 

 multilocularis, Roxb., or Agyneia multilocularis, Willd., belong to it ; this last has 8-12 anthers. 



1. Phyllanthus Niruri. Linn. (excl. syn. Rheed.) — Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3. p. 659 certe (excl. 

 syn. Rheed.) Plu/i. Phyt. t. 183. / 5. Bunn. Thes. Ztyl. t. 93. f. 2. Rheed. Hort. Mai. 

 10. t. 16 ? (certe non t. 15.) Rumph. Herb. Am. 6. t. 17./ 1. 



We can scarcely clear up the synonyms between this and P. urinaria, Linn., nor are we quite certain 

 that we are not reversing the appellations given by Linnaaus. What we here call P. Niruri, has smaller 

 leaves than P. urinaria, and the capsule is perfectly smooth and even, which, in the other, is covered with 

 numerous flattened small scale-like tubercles. To our P. urinaria belong Rumph. Amb. 0. t. 17. f. 2, and 

 Rheed. Mai. 10. t. 15, which last represents faithfully our specimens from the Peninsula of India, from Dr. 

 Wight : indeed, although this figure has been always quoted for P. Niruri, Rheede says decidedly, that the 

 gemma or capsules " sunt in superficies velut granulatce ac in sex cancellos suturis distincta?." Plukenet's 

 t. 183. f. 6, seems distinct from either, unless it be a narrow-leaved form of Ph. Niruri. Linnanus describes 

 P. urinaria as the smaller plant of the two, and as having procumbent stems : we find it as large, and both 

 to be erect. If, then, Linnaeus be correct in his reference to Rheede, our P. Niruri must be his P. uri- 

 naria, and vice versa. Both P. Niruri and urinaria of Poiret, in Lain. Encycl., appear to belong to our 

 P. Niruri. 



2. Phyllanthus lucens. Poir. (1804.) in Lam. Enc. 5. p. 296. — P. turbinatus. Sims (1816.) 

 in Bot. Mag. t. 1862. (non Koen.) — Nymphanthus rubra. Lour. FL Coch. 2. p. 665 ? 



Our difficulty about Loureiro arises from his saying, that the male and female flowers spring from the 

 same axils, which is not the case in our plant. As the name turbinatus was applied by Sims to this, while 

 Koenig and Roxburgh intended by it another species, (that figured by Rheede in his Hort. Mai. 5. t. 43, 

 which dill'ers by the shape of the leaves, and several other characters,) we have availed ourselves of the 

 older appellation given by Poiret. The Chinese plant, with P. turbinatus, Koen., P. patens, Roxb., P. 

 vitis-Idea, Koen., and Roxb. (Rheed. Hort. Mai. 5. t. 44.) form a small groupe, with turbinate male perianths, 



