Botanical Description.--Small trees, 9-12° high. Trunk erect. Branches cylindrical, stumpy (not tapering), several very small leaves at the ends. Flowers yellowish, in umbels. Calyx, 5 rounded, fleshy sepals. Corolla, 5 groups of woolly hairs on the divisions of the calyx. Stamens 5, inserted on the sepals, with double or irregular anthers. Seed vessel, 3 carpels each with one seed. Habitat.--Very common, especially in the suburbs of Manila where they serve as hedges. _Phyllanthus reticulatus_, Müll. (_Cica decandra_, Blanco.) Nom. Vulg.--_Tinatinaan_, _Tintatintahan_, _Malinta_, Tag.; _Sungot-olang_, Vis. Uses.--The natives eat the little berries of this species, which are dark purple before and black after maturity, and use their juice for ink. The leaves are diuretic and refreshing; the bark alterant. In the bazaars of India the bark is sold commonly in pieces 1° long and as thick as the wrist; its taste is slightly sweet, color dark and the alterative dose of its decoction is 120-150 grams a day. In Concan they make a compound pill of the leaf-juice, powdered cubebs and camphor, to be dissolved in the mouth for ulcerated, bleeding or scorbutic gums. The juice is also given internally for urticaria. Botanical Description.--Small trees, 12° or more high, with leaves pinnate, oval, entire, alternate, glabrous, downy when young. Common petiole, 2 stipules at the base. Flowers monoecious. Staminate: calyx, 5 colored sepals; no corolla; filaments 4, coarse, somewhat shorter than the calyx, the middle one thicker and 2-parted; anthers 10, 4 on the middle filament and two on each of the others. Pistillate: calyx and corolla same as staminate; nectary, 5 glandules on the base of the ovary. Fruit, a black berry seated within the calyx, crowned with 2 erect styles, 6 or 8 compartments each with a single seed. Habitat.--Grows everywhere and is well known. _Phyllanthus Niruri_, L. _P. urinaria_, L. Nom. Vulg.--_Hierba de San Pablo, de San Pedro_, Sp. Uses.--This species is not used medicinally in the Philippines, but in India is given for its diuretic effect and has great repute in the treatment of genito-urinary diseases, dropsy and gonorrhoea. The infusion of the leaves of _P. Niruri_ with Fenugreek seeds is a highly prized remedy for chronic dysentery, mentioned by Ainslie. The leaves are bitter and tonic and in Bombay they are in common use in gonorrhoea to correct the acidity of the urine. Bruised and mixed with salt they make a sort of jelly frequently used as an application for itch; without salt the same is used for contusions. The dose of the leaf juice of both species, for internal use, is 15 grams a day in divided doses. A decoction of the entire plant well dried and powdered, is given for jaundice in doses of 5 grams a day. The milky juice of the stem is useful in the local treatment of ulcers. The bruised root is employed in Concan for neuralgia.