218 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
ealyeis alternautes v. suppresse., Stamina ccntralia. Ovarii 2-1d-locularis loculi 2-ovulati. 
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Capsula 2-o9-cocca. Semina ecarunculata, eunpiltapay albaiaingaa, ee subrectus 5 cotyl b. 
dones complanat#.—Arbores y. seepius frutices, sepissime fruticull vy. RiENe ATES v. etiam sed rarius 
tamen herbe. Ramuli florigeri seepissime distiche nune sparse foliosi, raro foliis ad squamas tantum 
reductis praditi, teretes, angulosi aut rarius foliaceo-complanati. Folia reticle ao angulo 3 periphe- 
riz inter se distantia, forma magnitudine consistentia et indumento varia, seepissime tamen glabra, 
nunguam longe petiolata, integra, penninervia, bistipulata. Inflorescentize axillares ; vulgo in axillis 
foliorum site, raro in parte bienni aut trienni ramorum lignosorum site, monoice aut dioicr, v. 
etiam in eodem ramulo inferiores aut intermediz unisexuales a reliquis sexu distincte:, nunc aliw sexu 
mixte, aliz unisexuales v, omnes bisexuales, nune ad florem unicum reductze. Flores fasciculati aut 
solitarii ; pulvinuli fasciculigeri interdum elongati et raceemulum brevem dense imbricatim bracteatum 
formantes.—Cicca et Xylophylla, Linn, Bradleia et Emblica, Gertn. Gilochidion et Breynia, pro 
parte, Forst. 
One-third of all the Euphorbiacee hitherto discovered in tropical Polynesia, belong to this genus as now 
circumscribed, there being, besides the species described below, the following, viz. 1. Phyllanthus macro- 
phyllus, Mull. Arg., from New Caledonia ; ae ee Wagapensis, M ull. Arg., from New Caledonia ; 3. DP, Ka- 
nalophilus, Mull, Arg., from New Caledonia; 4, P, Billardieri, Mull, Arg., from New Caledonia; 5, P. Ca- 
ledonicus, Mull. Are. (Bradleia Zeylanica, Labill, Sert. Austr. Cal. p. 76, t. 76, excl. syn.), from New Cale- 
donia; 6, P. euspidatus, Mill, Arg., from the Samoan Islands; 7. P. Gaudichaudii, Mill. Arg., from the 
Samoan and Tongan groups; 8. P. Taitensis, Mill, Arg. (Bradleia pubescens, Sol, Prin. Fl. Ins. Paeif. 
(ined.) p. 329; yulgo Tahitens. “ Mahame” dicitur), from Tahiti (Banks and Solander !) ; 9. P. Gray- 
anus, Mull, Arg., from Tahiti; 10, P. glaucus, Mill. Arg., from New Caledonia . AVS Kanalensis, Mill. 
Arg., from New Caledonia; 12. P. buplewroides, Baill., from New Caledonia; 13. P. macrochorion, Baill., 
from New Caledonia; 14. 2. torrentium, Mill, Arg., from New Caledonia; 15. P. salicifolius, Mill. Arg., 
from New Caledonia; 16. P. vespertilio, Baill., from New Caledonia; 17. P. loranthoudes, Baill., from New 
Caledonia ; 18. P, myrianthus, Mill. Arg., from the New Hebrides; 19. P. platycalyx, Mill., from New 
Caledonia; 20. P. Fagueti, Baill, from New Caledonia; 21. P. eneus, Baill., from New Caledonia; 22. 
P. Baladensis, Baill., from New Caledonia; 28, P. Chamecerasus, Baill., from New Caledonia; 24. P. Pan- 
cherianus, Baill., from New Caledonia; 25. P. eataractarum, Miil), Arg., from New Caledonia; 26. P. cor- 
nutws, Baill., from New Caledonia; 27, P. caudaius, Mill. Arg., from New Caledonia; 28. P. Bourgeoisii, 
Baill., from New Caledonia; 29. P. cieeaoides, Mill, Arg. (Breynia disticha, Forst. Gen. t. 73), from 
Tana (Forster!) ; 80, P. Deplanchii, Mill. Arg., from New Caledonia; 81. P. Fieillardi, Baill., from New 
Caledonia; 32. P. Societatis, Mill. Arg,, from the Society group; 83. P. rufidulus, Miill. Arg., from New 
Caledonia; 34, P. pacificus, Mill, Arg., from the Marquesas Islands (Barelay!) ; 85. P. wreeolatus, Baill., 
from New Caledonia; 36. P. micranthoides, Baill., from New Caledonia; 87. P. Sandwichensis, Mill. Arg. 
(P. distichus, Hook. et Arn.}, from the Hawaiian Islands (Macrae! Nuttall! Barclay! Seemann! n, 
aoe) 3 38. P. persimilis, Mill. Arg., trom New Caledonia; and 39. P. chrysanthus, Baill., from New 
Caledonia, 
1. P, ramiflorus, Miill. Arg, in DC. 1. ¢, p. 289; floribus g $-que longiuscule pedicellatis 
parvulis, laciniis calycis g ovatis concavis; ovario globoso 6-loculari glabro; columna stylari yix 
distincta ; stylis brevissimis conniyentibus ; capsula depresso-globosa vertice foveola excavata 12-sul- 
cata.—Glochidion ramiflorum, Forst. Prodr. n. 861. Bradleia glochidion, Gertn. Fruct. vol. ii. 
p. 128. t. 109. Bradileia levigata, Sol. Prim. FI, Ins. Pacif. (ined.) p. 329, et in Parkins, Drawings 
of Tahit. Plants (ined.) t. 108.—Nomen vernac. Tahitense, fide Solander, ‘ Ula-moe-mou.” 
Var. lanceolatus (Mill, Arg. 1. c.); arborea ; petiolis 4-5 mm. longis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis 
utrinque acuminatis mediocribus v. parvulis—Nomen yernac, Vitiense, “ Molau.’’—Somosomo, 
Island of Taviuni, and Ovalau (Seemann ! un, 415), Also collected in the Marquesas (Jardin), Wood 
used for making clubs, 
Dr. Miller enumerates several varieties of this species, which, in m 
ol y opinion, are scarcely more than 
mere forms or stages of growth. At the British Museum there is a nu : 
mber of specimens representing a 
