Compilation
Phyllanthus polygamus

a shrub or small tree, about 12 ft. high; branches and branchlets usually angular, glabrous; leaves elliptic or obovate, obtusely pointed or the smaller emarginate, cuneate, subacute or obtuse at the base, up to 2 1/2 in. long and 1 1/4 in. broad, rather rigidly membranous, glabrous on both surfaces, often glaucous below; lateral nerves 5–9 on each side, slightly prominent on the lower surface; veins fine and close; petiole 1 1/2–3 lin. long, glabrous; stipules lanceolate, margin slightly jagged; flowers diœcious; male flowers numerous, in axillary fascicles; pedicel slender, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, glabrous; sepals 5, unequal, the larger obovate, 1 lin. long and 2/3 lin. broad, the smaller oblong, 1/2 lin. long, 1/4 lin. broad, margins membranous and jagged or ciliate, otherwise glabrous; disc-glands usually large and fleshy, somewhat angular, with 3 or 4 depressions or pits on the outside, glabrous; stamens 5; filaments longer than the rudimentary ovary; anthers 1/2 lin. long; rudimentary ovary tripartite; segments free for about two-thirds of their length, terete, reflexed and often thickened in the upper part, a small second lobe often developed at the bend, glabrous; female flowers numerous; calyx as in the male; disc annular, glabrous; ovary ovoid, glabrous; styles connate at the base, or rarely nearly absent, bilobed, lobes spreading, flattened or subterete; fruits white, depressed-globose, about 2 lin. in diam.; styles persistent; seeds shining, with several longitudinal lines of pits on the back and sides. null