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EUPHOEBIACEJ3. 
[Phgllanthus. 
branchlets. Leaves nearly sessile, in. long, oblong or obovate- 
oblong, obtuse with a minute mucro, membranous, pale green above, 
glaucous beneath ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, very minute. Flowers 
in the axils of most of the leaves, usually solitary on pedicels twice as 
long as the perianth. Female perianth -Jy in. long ; segments ob- 
lanceolate-oblong, with a broad membranous border, persistent, 
reflexing after the capsule falls. Capsule smooth, depresso-globose, 
under in. broad. Seeds longitudinally ribbed. Male flowers smaller, 
usually in pairs in the axils of the upper leaves. Stamens 3, with mon- 
adelphous filaments. 
Seychelles, Mauritius, and Rodriguez, a common weed; Coin de Mire, Home ! 
Cosmopolitan in the Tropics. Castique petite espece or Nuriri. 
5. P. tenellus, Poxb. ; Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 338. An erect 
much-branched glabrous annual with the habit of P. Niruri, with 
filiform terete branchlets. Leaves membranous, nearly sessile, obovate, 
obtuse, y— J in. long, green above, glaucous beneath ; stipules very 
minute, ascending, lanceolate acuminate. Female flowers solitary 
in the axils of the lower leaves, on erecto-patent filiform ^ in. 
pedicels. Female perianth in. long ; segments oblanceolate-oblong, 
obtuse, with a green centre and broad white membranous edge. Cap- 
sule under in. broad, depresso-globose, umbilicate. Seeds minutely 
granular. Male flowers very minute, in pairs in the axils of the upper 
leaves on shorter pedicels. 
Seychelles, in the streets of Port Victoria and other places in Mahe, Horne, 311 ! 
584 ! Said to have been introduced from Mauritius to the Calcutta botanic garden, 
but I have not seen Mauritian specimens. Also Cape, Natal, and Arabia. 
6. P. dumetosus, Pair. ; Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 398. A 
low erect shrub of heath-like habit, with very numerous crowded angular 
slender glabrous sulcate branchlets. Leaves nearly sessile, subcoria- 
ceous, ascending, 1-nerved, linear or lanceolate, \ in. long ; stipules 
minute, deltoid-cuspidate. Flowers monoicous, usually solitary in the 
axils of the leaves ; pedicels scarcely as long as the perianth. Female 
perianth -Jg- in. long, w T ith 5-6 oblanceolate-oblong obtuse segments 
with a narrow green centre and broad whitish borders. Capsule 
depresso-globose, in. broad. Seeds smooth. Filaments nearly free. 
Grlands of the disk of both sexes free. Kirganelia dumetosa, Spreng. ; 
Bojer, PLort. Maur , 278. 
Rodriguez, Commersov, Balfour ! Said by Bojer to be also a plant of Mauritius, 
but I have not seen specimens. Endemic. 
7. P. anomalus, Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 418. A much- 
branched dioicous shrub, with angular branchlets. Leaves distinctly 
petioled, obovate or oblong, 2-3 in. long, obtuse or acute, subcoriaceous, 
deltoid at the base ; stipules large, lanceolate, membranous, caducous. 
Female flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves on stout pedicels 
