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finally J inch long. Expanded female perianth i in. across ; segments 4, 
oblong, obtuse, persistent. Capsule broader (J inch) than long, 2- 
celled ; styles 2, short, broad, spreading, bifid. Male flowers in dense 
clusters on filiform pedicels. Perianth similar to that of the female. 
Stamens 4, free. Disk of the flowers of both sexes minute. Securinega 
hysterantha, Bojer, Hort. Maur . 282. Bridelia Berryana, Wall. Cat . 
JVo. 7960. Cicca anomala and Eluggea major, Baillon. 
Mauritius, frequent in mountain woods. Also Comoros, Madagascar, and Zam- 
besi-land. 
8. P. casticum, Willem ; Mull. Ary. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 348. 
A shrub 10-15 feet high, with very numerous very slender ascending 
pubescent or glabrescent branches. Leaves distichous, alternate, 
short- petioled, membranous, obtuse, oblanceolate or oblong, in. 
long. Blowers monoicous, 1-4 together in the axils of all the leaves, 
on pedicels in. long, subtended by minute lanceolate persistent 
bracts. Perianth ^ in. long ; segments oblong, purplish-green, 
imbricated. Stamens twice as long as the perianth, the 3 inner joined 
in a column, the 2 outer nearly free. Ovary-cells and styles usually 
3, sometimes 4 or 5 ; styles bifid. Bruit obovoid, the size of a small 
pea, at first reddish, fleshy. P. virgineus, Pers. Kirganelia elegans, 
* Tuss. ; Bojer, Hort. Maur. 279. 
Mauritius, common on dry banks through, the island. Rodriguez, only in one 
or two of the valleys, Balfour! There are two varieties, one with pilose 
branches and smaller leaves, and the other with glabrous branches and larger leaves. 
Also Bourbon and Madagascar. Kirganellie or Castique. 
9. P. phillyresefolius, Poir . ; Mull. Ary. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 376. 
A dioicous shrub, 5-10 feet high, with numerous erecto-patent 
angular branchlets. Leaves shortly petioled, coriaceous ? bright green 
above, very variable in size and shape, oblong or ovate or obovate, 2-4 
in. long, acute or obtuse, usually deltoid at the base ; stipules minute, 
deltoid. Blowers of both sexes in dense axillary clusters, with masses 
of cupular bracts ; pedicels of the female finally in. long. 
Expanded female perianth in. across ; segments whitish, oblong, 
obtuse. Male flowers smaller, on shorter pedicels. Stamens 3, mona- 
delphous and the anthers also adhering. Capsule blackish, depresso- 
globose, i in. thick ; seeds smooth. P. Commersoni, Baill. Adans. ii. 
53. P. polymorphus, Mull. Ary. in Linncea , xxxii. 24, in part. 
Mauritius, frequent in the woods at all elevations. Also Bourbon. A variable 
plant, of which Dr. Muller in the Prodromus describes and names eleven varieties. 
Of these, the most striking are P. subcordatus , Baill., a high mountain form, with 
nearly orbicular small obtuse subcordate leaves, and P. Telfairianus . Wall. Cat. 
7935, with nearly sessile membranous oblong leaves about an inch long, and flowers 
smaller and fewer in a cluster. P. con sanguineus, Mull. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 2, 
378, which differs from typical phillyrecefolius by its larger lanceolate-acuminate 
stipules, is probably another variety. 
