CXXVIII. EUPHORBIACE^E. 
[A ndrachne. 
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blunt hairy. Petals much smaller spathulate glabrous. Stamens 5 ; 
filaments thick narrowed upwards. Disc lobes linear acute long. 
Pistillode short oblong blunt. Female flowers *2 in. wide. Sepals 
coriaceous hairy outside. Capsule *i in. long, hairy round semi- 
ovoid. Seeds grey transversely rugose. Hab. Perlis, Tebing 
Tinggi near Kanga (Ridley). 
(3) A. calcarea Ridl. Kew Bulletin , 1923, p. 362. 
Shrublet under 1 ft. tall, stems slender pubescent, little or not 
branched. Leaves membranous, glabrous or sparsely hairy beneath, 
elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate blunt mucronulate, base shortly 
narrowed; nerves faint, 4 pairs; 1-25 in. long, -6 in. wide; petioles 
hairy, *3 to *4 in. long. Flowers 1 or 2 in axils. Males -i in. 
across on filiform hairy pedicels -15 in. long. Sepals oblong hairy. 
Petals narrow lanceolate. Stamens 5, filaments free slender. 
Disc deeply cut into linear lobes. Pistillode rather large. Female 
flower *25 in. wide. Sepals ovate harry on the back. Ovary 
glabrous. Styles bifid. Capsule 1 in. long, light brown. Seeds 
oblong, grey transversely rugose. Hab. Limestone rocks, Selangor, 
top of Batu Caves (Ridley). Lankawi, Dayong Bunting (Robinson). 
Distrib. Siam. 
7. AGYNEIA, Vent. 
Herbs erect, branched. Leaves small entire alternate. Flowers 
minute apetalous. Males in axillary clusters; females solitary 
larger. Bracts numerous, stipule-like. Male flowers, sepals 6, 
gland-dotted thick with white edges. Disc 6-lobed. Stamens 3, 
central, filaments connate; anthers sessile on them. Pistillode 0! 
Female flowers. Disc o. Sepals acute not edged with white. 
Ovary ovoid truncate; ovules two in a cell; styles very short sunk 
in top of ovary. Capsule splitting into 2-valved cocci. Species 2, 
Mascarene, Indo-Malaya. 
(1) A. bacciformis Jussieu, Tent. Eufihorb. 24; Hook, til 
F.B.I. v. 285. 
Plant 12 in. tall, glabrous, stems angled. Leaves fleshy sessile 
oblong-obovate to linear-lanceolate, blunt or acute, *5 in. long, 
•1 in. wide. Stipules minute ovate or lanceolate-acute. Flowers 
pedicelled minute. Females -12 in. across. Sepals ovate acumin¬ 
ate. Capsule -13 in. long, globose ovoid nearly terete. Hab. 
Sandy spots, Singapore, Tanjong Katong. Pahang, Kwala Pahang 
(Ridley). Distrib. Mauritius, India, Java. 
8. PHYLLANTHUS, Linn. 
Shrubs or shrublets, rarely herbs. Leaves membranous alter¬ 
nate, entire distichous very small to 4 in. long. Flowers small in 
axillary clusters, apetalous. Males, sepals 4 to 6, imbricate in 
2 series. Stamens 3 to 6 filaments free or united. Pistillode 0 
(except in P. pulcher minute). Disc various. Female flowers as 
