PHILIPPINE PHYLLANTHIN2E. 
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upper margin with 6 lobes alternating with the perianth-segments, in all 
1.5 mm in diameter; styles 3, 2-forked almost to the base, the arms slender, 
over 1 mm long: capsule brown, depressed-globose, 3 mm in diameter, 
3- or less evidently 6-grooved, 3-celled, with 2 seeds in each cell, testa 
brown, covered with minute papillae disposed in longitudinal lines. 
A small shrub 3 m high, the branchlets narrowly 2-winged and the 
smaller ones slightly compressed, between the wings densely but minutely 
pubescent: leaves alternate, distichous, borne on minutely pubescent 
petioles less than 1 mm long, the lamina chartaceous, glabrous, lanceolate 
or elliptic, 2-3.5 cm long, 6-9 mm wide, the margins revolute, the apex 
obtuse, usually mucronulate, toward the base narrowed, at the extreme 
base rounded and often slightly inequilateral; primary lateral veins on 
each side of the midrib 9-11 ; stipules membranaceous, 2 mm long, hastate 
and produced below the base of the petiole, the apices very acute. 
Luzon, Province of Nueva Viscaya, Cordon, Merrill I 61/ : Province of Tayabas, 
Lucena, Merrill 2885. Negros, Gimagaan River, For. Bur. 1/ 301 Everett (type). 
Allied to P. simplex Retz. Male flowers of this species greatly resemble those 
of P. samarensis Muell.-Arg., of which a portion of the original collection is in 
this herbarium, but it seems to be distinguishable not only by its winged stems 
but also by the wider stipules (1 mm at the fork), which are also more strongly 
produced downward; the leaves are larger and somewhat different in shape, 
though similar at the base. It is also close to P. myrtifolius Wight, but differs 
in the same characters as just noted. 
N. v. Miagos, Vis., Negros. 
11. Phyllanthus simplex Retz. Obs. Bot. 5 (1789) 29. 
Luzon, Province of Pangasinan, Bur. Sci. 1/837 Ramos: Province of Bulacan, 
Norzagaray, Yoder 195: Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 1182 Ramos; 
Manila, Merrill 31/33, Philip. Normal School 68 Arcebal, Hallier s. n. ; Diliman, 
Marave 100. Mindoro, Puerto Galera, Merrill 331/3. Mindanao, District of 
Davao, Davao, Copeland 605 ; Darong, Williams 2611 A. 
Manchuria to India and Polynesia. 
12. Phyllanthus niruri Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 981. 
P. carolinianus Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 691. 
P. kirganelia Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 2 (1845) 480, non Willd. Sp. PI. 4 (1805) 
587. 
Bataxes Islands, Batan Island, Santo Domingo de Basco, Bur. Sci. 3722 Fenix. 
Luzon, Province of * Pampanga, Bacolor, Parker IS: Province of Bulacan, Mey- 
cauayan, Marave 1/8: Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, Bur. Sci. 101/8 Ramos; Manila, 
Merrill 72, 356, 31/79, Philip. Normal School 121 Pineda: Province of Cavite, 
Cavite, Bur. Sci. 153 Foxworthy: Province of Laguna, Calauan, Cuming 717: 
Province of Tayabas, Atimonan, Gregory 30. Panay, Iloilo, Copeland s. n. 
Palawan, Puerto Princesa, For. Bur. 1/178 Curran. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, 
Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens s. n.: District of Davao, Davao, Copeland 571; 
Santa Cruz, Williams 2751/. 
Blanco’s species, the specific name changed in the second edition, has been 
generally reduced to P. niruri. The description does not entirely fit, but is 
nearer to that of this species than of any other. 
N.v. Sampasampalucan, Tag., Manila, Rizal: Iba-iba-an, Tag., Bulacan. 
Cosmopolitan in the Tropics, except of Australia. 
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