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FLORA OF ADEN. 
Flowers small, monoecious, rarely dioecious, axillary or on old nodes; 
males usually many, fascicled, subsessile or pedicellate, rarely few or 
solitary; females in the same or distinct axils with longer pedicels, soli- 
tary or few. Perianth simple. Male flowers : Sepals 4 — 6, free or very 
shortly connate, imbricate and more or less 2-seriate. Disk glandular, 
(rarely 0). Stamens 3 (rarely 4— -5), in the centre of the flower; 
filaments free or connate ; anthers 2-celled, oblong or didymous (rarely 
reniform), the cells parallel or diverging; dehiscence extrorse, vertical or 
transverse. Pistillode 0. Female flowers: Sepals as in the male. 
Petals 0. Ovary usually 3-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; styles free or 
connate, usually bifid, with slender arms, rarely dilated. 
Fruit of 3 crustaceous or coriaceous (rarely bony) 2-valved cocci 
with or without a separable coriaceous (rarely fleshy) epicarp, sometimes 
a 4-celled berry or a drupe with a 3 — 4-celled bony endocarp. Seeds 3- 
gonous ; testa crustaceous ; hilum without a strophiole ; albumen fleshy ; 
cotyledons flat or flexuous. 
Species about 400. 
Distribution : — In all warm countries. 
1. Phyllanthus maderaspatensis L. Sp. PI. p. 982 ; Mull.-Arg. 
in Linmea XXXII, 19 et. DC. Prodr. XYI, 362 ; Benth. FI. Austr, IV, 
103; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. I, 293. 
Phyllanthus andrachnoides Willd, Sp. PL IV, 575. 
Phyllanthus obcordatus Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. Suppl. p. 65. 
Phyllanthus javanicus Poir. ; Spreng. Syst. Ill, 21. 
Phyllanthus anceps Herb. Heyne. 
Phyllanthus linearis Herb. Madr. 
Phyllanthus malabaricus Herb. Wight. 
Phyllanthus niruri Wall. Cat. 7894. 
Arabic name : — Cholf. 
Description Annual, but sometimes woody at the base, very 
variable in habit ; stems glabrous, 1 — 3 feet long, erect, ascending or 
decumbent. Leaves scattered, variable, \ — 1J by f inch, glabrous, 
obovate-cuneate, rounded, truncate or somewhat obcordate at the apex, 
mucronate, much tapering into a very short petiole, glaucous and with a 
few lateral nerves conspicuous beneath ; stipules peltate, lanceolate, very 
acute. 
Flowers axillary, the male flowers minute in small clusters, subsessile, 
the female larger, solitary, shortly pedicellate. Sepals 6, obovate, 
obtuse, green with white margins. Stamens 3 ; filaments connate. 
Styles 3, distinct, very small, 2-lobed. 
