Phyllanthus. | 
Styles erect or suberect, free to the 
base . . c - 26. 
Styles erect, connate in the lower 
half, free parts recurved or 
spreading. 
Leaves elliptic or obovate, 2~4 in. 
long; styles slender . > Ss 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, 3-13 in. 
long; styles very thick . 26. 
fiStamens 3. 
Perennials ; sepals 6. 
Stems simple or subsimple, arising from a 
woody rhizome. 
Flowers dicecious . ; : 5 “8 
Flowers monecious ets de - 28. 
Shrubs ; stems branched, not from arhizome 13. 
Annual herb; sepals 5. C 6 : - 29. 
ttStamens 3; filaments ecnnate their whole length or 
nearly so. 
Sepals of both sexes 5, those of the female in a 
single serics. 
Flowers dicecious. 
Leaves reticulate, margins slightly recurved. 30. 
Leaves not reticulate, with reddish margins . 31. 
Flowers moneecious. 
Styles absent ; stigmas sessile ; leaves slightly 
woolly-pubescent . : c . 32. 
Styles. present, sometimes short; leaves not 
woolly-pubescent. 
Ovary prominently warted. 
Styles very slender, spreading ; stigmas 
not swolleu; disk of female flower 
5-lobed . 5 
Styles erect ; stigmas 
female flowers crenulate 
Ovary smooth. 
: Disk of female flowerlarge,fleshy, support- 
ing the stipitate ovary like a collar 35. 
P Disk of female flower flat; ovary not 
or only slightly stipitate. 
Disk of female flowers 5-lobed, lobes 
triangular ° é : . 36. 
Disk of temale flowers crenulate or 
undulate, not regularly lobed. 
Leaves conspicuously mucronate . 37. 
Leaves not or scarcely mucronate. 
Male disk-glands smooth. 
Under-shrub ; styles spreading 38. 
Annual; styles erect or sub- . 
erect . . 39. 
Male disk-glands strongly warted 40. 
Sepals of both sexes 6, those of the female often 
in 2 series. 
Flowers dicecious. 
globose; disk of 
. 34. 
CXXU, HUPHORBIACHA: (HUTCHINSON). 
P. angolensis. 
P. loandensis. 
PP. purpureus. 
P. alpestris. 
P. glaucophyllus, 
var. major. 
P. meruensis, 
P. benguelensis. 
P. arvensis. 
P. microphyllinus, 
P. sublanatus. 
. RP. niruroides. 
P. leucocalyx. 
P. microdendron. 
P. amarus. 
P, Pazit. 
P. hutchinsonianus. 
P. Behmii. 
P. Dekindtii. 
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