1146 
INDIAN MEDICINAL N.ANTS. 
deciduous. Leaves rather membranous, pinnately distichous, 
2- 3in., petioled, obliquely ovate, acute, pale beneath ; base usu- 
ally rounded. Nerves 5-8 pair, arched. Petiole A-iin.; stipules 
toothed. Flowers brownish-red, minute, most densely clustered, 
Ain. diam. ; clustersaxillary or in slender racemes from the thick, 
old branches, shortly pedicelled ; occasionally 2-sexual, sometimes 
3- 4-merous ; pedicels capillary, J-Jin. Sepals 4, orbicular ; 
filaments free. Disk of male, of large glands ; of female, annular 
crenate. Stamens 4, recurved ; anthers shortly oblong, slits 
lateral. Ovary ovoid ; styles 3-4, reflexed from the contracted 
top, 2-partite ; arms subulate, acute. Fruit globose, often crowd- 
ed. Pericarp fleshy, acid, seed-lobed, generally 6-8 grooved. 
Endocarp 3-4-celled ; parts 1 -celled , 1-seeded. 
Use : — The fruit is acid and astringent, the root is an active 
purgative, and the seed is also cathartic. 
1136 . Flucggia microearpa, Blnme., h.f.b.i., v. 
328 . 
Syn. : — Phyllanthus leucopyrus Koen., Roxb., 679. 
V ern. : — Parpo (Goa). Paudharphali, kante puwan (Bomb). 
Dal me (H.) ; Rithoul (Dehra Dun). 
Habitat : — The Punjab Plains. Deccan Peninsula, from 
Canara southwards. 
A small, deciduous tree or large shrub. Bark smooth, thin, 
rusty or reddish-brown. Wood red, hard, close-grained. “A 
graceful little tree of slow growth,” says Gamble. Glabrous, 
unarmed ; branchlets slender, angled and compressed, marked 
with small, white specks. Branches straight and regularly fluted 
or angular. Leaves very variable, l-4in. long, elliptic-ovate, 
obovate or orbicular, membranous, but tough, rather glaucous 
beneath ; tip rounded, obtuse or acute, rarely acuminate or re- 
fuse ; lateral nerves 6-8 pair, very slender; petiole iVlin., slender. 
Flowers dioecious, very small, pedicelled, usually in axillary 
fascicles. Sepals 5, imbricate. Male flowers: — Stamens 5, 
alternating with disk-glands, but opposite to the sepals; pastil- 
lode large, 3-fid. Female flowers: — Ovary, ovoid, on an annular 
disk ; styles 3, 2-fid. Fruit of two sizes, mostly small and dry, 
