EUPHORBIACEAE 



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peduncled, about 2 cm long and wide, dichotomous, rather lax, 

 few-flowered, the peduncle about as long as or slightly exceeding 

 the petiole. Male flowers pale yellow, about 3 mm in diameter, 

 their pedicels pubescent, 1 to 2 mm long, the bracteoles very 

 small. Calyx about 2 mm long, externally cinereous-pubescent 

 with short, appressed hairs, the lobes 5, oblong-ovate, obtuse, 

 about 1.5 mm long. Petals glabrous, oblong, apex rounded- 

 subtruncate, entire or very obscurely notched, not retuse or split, 

 nearly 1.5 mm long. Stamens 5, about 1.5 mm long, glabrous. 

 Glands densely pubescent, small. Pistillate or perfect flowers 

 not seen. 



This species is apparently closely allied to Dichapetalum timo- 

 riense (DC.) Engl., from which it is distinguished by certain 

 floral characters, the flowers dioecious (or polygamous?), the 

 glands densely pubescent, not glabrous. It seems to be even 

 more closely allied to Dichapetalum papuanum (Becc.) Engl., 

 of New Guinea, but has rather smaller, differently shaped leaves, 

 while the petals are truncate and entire, rarely minutely notched, 

 not at all bifid at the apex. 



Rumphius's description and figure agree sufficiently well with 

 the specimen cited above to warrant the reduction of Funis 

 butonicus minor to Dichapetalum moluccanum Merr. The only 

 previously suggested reductions are Burman's opinion that it 

 represented some species in the Contortae and Lamarck's opinion 

 that it was near Menispermum. 



EUPHORBIACEAE 



PHYLLANTHUS Linnaeus 

 PHYLLANTHUS NIRURI Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 981. 



Herba moeroris I alba Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 41, t. 17, f. 1. 

 Amboina, Batoe merah, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 350, July 20, 1913, 

 in ditches at low altitudes. 



This reduction was made by Linnaeus, in Stickman Herb. 

 Amb. (1754) 26, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 134, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 

 1264, Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1763) 1392, has been accepted by all authors 

 who have had occasion to cite the Rumphian figure, and is cer- 

 tainly the correct disposition of Herba moeroris I alba. 



PHYLLANTHUS URINARIA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 982. 



Herba moeroris II rubra Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6: 42, t. 17, /. 2. 

 Amboina, Hatiwe ketsjil, Robinson PI. Rumph. Amb. 351, July 20, 1913, 

 on coral limestone at low altitudes. 



This reduction was made by Linnaeus in the same publica- 

 tions as those in which Herba moeroris I alba was reduced to 



