692 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA (autcuinson).  [Lingelsheimia, 
4.L. tessmanniana, //vichinson. Branchlets angular when 
young, at length subterete, glabrous; internodes 3—1 in. long. Leaves 
sessile, obliquely oblong-elliptic or ovate-oblong, acutely acuminate, 
rounded and unequal-sided at the base, one half of the blade produced 
about 1 lin. below the other, 24-44 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, sharply 
and rather remotely denticulate, subcoriaceous, glabrous and con- 
spicuously reticulate on both surfaces; lateral nerves 6—7 on each side, 
}-oped and branched well within the margin, prominent on both sur- 
faces; veins rather close, conspicuous; stipules small and very early 
deciduovs. Flowers dieecious, sessile in axillary clusters. Male flowers: 
Sepals 4, suborbicular, nearly 2 lin. in diam., coriaceous, tomentellous 
outside, puberulous inside. Stamens 8-10; filaments stout, glabrous; 
anthers 3 lin. long. Disk deeply divided, segments fleshy, rusty- 
puberulous. Female flowers not known.—Cyclostemon tessmannianus, 
Paxin Engl. Jahrb, xlv. 236. 
Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea: on the way to Nsangbrang, Tessmann, 
996! 
5, L. parvifolia, Hutchinson. A small shrub; branchlets terete, 
glabrous or with a few scattered whitish hairs on the young shoots ; 
bark light yellowish-grey when dry. Leaves somewhat crowded, ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, acumen subacute, rounded and subequal 
at the base, 13-33 in. long, 4-14 in. broad, papery or slightly coriaceous, 
closely reticulate, serrate or somewhat repand-dentate, glabrous on both 
surfaces; lateral nerves 4—5 on each side, looped and reticulate some 
distance from the margin, distinct on both surfaces; tertiary nerves 
reticulate ; petiole scarcely } lin. long, very finely wrinkled, glabrous ; 
stipules lanceolate, 2 lin. long, nearly glabrous, very soon deciduous. 
Male flowers axillary, fasciculate on the young branchlets ; bracts small, 
ovate, acute, densely ciliate ; pedicel about 1 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 
usually 4, orbicular, thinly coriaceous, glabrous except for the ciliolate 
margin, strongly imbricate. Stamens 10-14; filaments very short, 
glabrous. Disk lobed, wrinkled, glabrous. Female flowers not known. 
—Cyclostemon parvifolius, Mill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 532, and in DC. 
Prodr, xv. ii. 486; Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 279. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 
1032! 1700! 
31. PHYLLANTHUS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
P). iii. 272. 
Flowers monecious or sometimes diccious. Petals absent. - 
always present in the African species. Male flowers: Sepals 4-6, 
* Poa . 9 
or slightly joined at the base, imbricate, and when 4 or 6 often 
series. Disk of separate glands (annular in 19, P. discoideus) ; ge 
usually fleshy, smooth or more or less warted. Stamens 2-6, 10 
free and the 
centre of the flower; filaments free or connate, or some llel 
others connate; anthers 2-celled, oblong or rounded, the cells Fr “er 
and dehiscing lengitudinally, or diverging from the apex, the Hn 
