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as are represented by M. Adr. de Jussieu, in his P. tristis, Euph. p. 22. t. 5. f. 16. B. To these M. de Jussieu 
adds P. cernuus and P. rhamnoides. We suspect that he, as well as Poiret, mean by this latter Koenig’s 
and Roxburgh’s P. vitis-Idea; indeed, we are almost sure of it, for at p. 108 he looks on P. rhamnoides as, 
perhaps, the same with his P. tristis. What Retz’s and Willdenow’s P. rhamnoides is, we scarcely know, 
the synonyms adduced by the latter belonging to several very different plants. Roxburgh’s species of that 
name has the male flowers racemed, and six scales on the middle of the leaflets of the perianth, “ pointing 
inwards, before the flower expands, so as to cover the anthers like so many hoods:” he compares it with 
P.pendida, Roxb., and this last is, “ when young, not unlike Niruri.” We have received P. lucens from 
Mr. Miliett and Mr. Vachell, n. 95. 
3. Phyllanthus citierascens ; frutex glaber, ramis striatis cortice cinereo, foliis parvis 
obovatis vel ovalibus obtusissimis vel retusis coriaceis glabris approximatis fasciculatis vel 
2-4 ad ramulos breves juniores, floribus 3-5-nis breve pedicellatis 6-fidis. 
The only specimen we have seen, sent by Mr. Miliett, is very imperfect. The leaves scarcely exceed a 
third of an inch : the flowers (we have only observed the male ones,) arise from a small scaly tubercle, or 
abortive branchlet; their structure is precisely that of P. lanceolata, Adr. de Juss. Euph. t. 5. n. 16. A. f. 2. 
1. Bridelia Loureiri ; ramulis pubescentibus virgatis, foliis obloiigis acutiusculis utrinque 
glabris, stipulis minutis deciduis, floribus plurimis axillaribus glomeratis sessilibus, proces- 
subus petaloideis late cuneatis apice grosse dentatis periantbio vix dimidio brevioribus, 
stylo trifido. — Cluytia monoica. Lour. Coch. 2. p. 784. 
This was received, about ten years ago, in Sir Wm. J. Hooker’s first packet from Mr. Miliett. The 
flowers are sometimes 6-cleft, and with 6 anthers. It approaches very closely to B. patula, but seems to 
differ in several particulars, 
M. Adrien de Jussieu has remarked, (Euphorb. Tent. p. 25.) that although four or five of the East 
Indian species of Cluytia agree with C. pulchella and the other Cape ones, in having a trifid style, 
and three-celled fruit, he is rather disposed to unite them with Bridelia, and make the principal difference 
between that genus and Cluytia to depend on the disk that lines the bottom of the perianth, (as in some genera 
of the Rhamnece) unaccompanied with the bifid or trifid appendages that alternate with the petaloid bodies, 
and characterise the Cape species. We have, therefore, inserted Loureiro’s plant in Bridelia, and this, 
with C. stipularis, Linn., C. diversifolia, Roxb., C. collina, C. patula, and C. oblongifolia, will constitute a 
section distinguished by the trifid style and trilocular capsule. It is probable that C. semperjlorens, Roxb. El. 
Ind. 3. p. 730, from Silhet, must form a genus (Silvia, Hook, et Arn.) distinct from either ; in it there appear 
to be in the male, five glands that alternate with the insertion of the petaloid processes, instead of a disk, and 
the petaloid processes are of a deep purple colour; there are six anthers. In the female, the petaloid pro- 
cesses are wanting, but the ovary is surrounded at the base by a pentagonal ring, similar to what almost 
always usurps the place of a disk in the female flowers of Bridelia. The species belonging to the groupe 
with a three-celled fruit, may be thus distinguished : — 
§ 1. Stipulm majusculm. 
1. B. stipularis ; foliis ovalibus subtus tomentosis, stipulis ovatis acutis. — Cluytia stipularis. Linn. 
2. B. diversifolia; foliis utrinque glabris ex obovatis obtusis in late lanceolata acuta, stipulis eusiformibus, 
floribus sessilibus, processubus petaloideis rotundato-obovatis. — Cluytia diversifolia. Roxb. FI. Ind. 3. p.l3\. 
§ 2. Stipules parvcB vel minutce. 
3. B. collina ; foliis ovalibus glabris, floribus paucis glomeratis breviter pedicellatis, processubus petal- 
oideis minutis lanceolatis integerrirais. — Cluytia collina. Roxb. Cor. 2. t. 169; FI. Ind. Z.p. 732. 
