698 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). [ Phyllanthus, 
Leaves rounded or truncate and often 
slightly emarginate; lateral nerves 13-16 
on each side, slightly raised below ; sepals 
of the female flowers obovate, narrowed 
to the base; seeds covered with numer 
ous longitudinal rows of very small wart- 
like protuberances “ “ “ . 66. P. Beillei. 
tfLeaves }-2 in, long . : “ ‘ . 38. P. hutchinsonianus. 
1. P. kirkianus, Miill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 486. A small shrub ; 
branches subsimple, stout, terete, glabrous ; young shoots produced in 
fascicles, rather slender, glabrous. Leaves obovate or suborbicular, 
rounded or truncate at the apex, very obtuse or slightly cuneate at the 
base, 2-6 lin. long, 2—4 lin. broad, membranous, glabrous on both sur- 
faces ; lateral nerves about 5 on each side, branched, slightly prominent 
below ;. veins slightly prominent below, rather lax; petiole 4 lin. long; 
stipules linear-lanceolate, equalling the petiole, membranous, brown, 
margin jagged. Flowers dicecious, clustered on extremely short lateral 
branchlets produced in fascicles on the older wood. Male flowers: 
bracts membranous; pedicel very slender, 2 lin. long, glabrous. 
Sepals 6, unequal, obovate or oblong, $ lin. long, membranous, glabrous, 
tips reddish-brown and laciniate or jagged. Disk annular, subcrenulate, 
glabrous. Stamens 6; filaments about thrice the length of the calyx, 
glabrous, very shortly connate at the base or nearly free; anthers 
curved. Female flowers: pedicel 14-14 in. long, very slender, slightly 
thickened towards the apex, glabrous. Sepals joined at the base, other- 
wise similar to the male. Disk very thin and adnate to the base of ne 
calyx, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, each carpel depressed in the upper part : 
styles slender, connate at the base, bilobed to about the middle, slightly 
yapillose. Capsule (immature 2) trilobed, about 3 lin. long and rs Pie 
in diam., closely and distinctly reticulate, each style persistent 1n 
depression of the incurved apex of each carpel. Ripe seeds not seen 
Miill, Arg. in DC. Peodr, xv. ii. 334; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236. 
P. cenensis, Miill. Arg. lice. 835. Diasperus kirkianus and D. senensis, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl ii. 599, 601. Cluytiandra Schinz, Pax in 
Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me sér. viii. 635. 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi ; 
Sena, Peters ! Boruma, Menyharth, 779! 
Tete, Kirk, 4! 
2. P. lalambensis, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. lre sér. Me 
App. ii. 802. A ‘shrub several feet high or a small tree; rer 
terete, with a dark-brown sulcate bark ; flowering-branchlets FS m= 
late, leafy, less than 1 in. long, subterete, glabrous. Leaves = peas 
oblong-elliptic, obtuse at both ends, 3-5 lin. long, 2-3 lin. broad, long ; 
chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; petiole about 4 lin. le 
stipules ovate or oblong-lanceolate, a little longer than the r cel 
margin lacerate. Flowers dicecious, males in axillary fascicles ; proadly 
about } lin. long, rather slender, glabrous. Sepals 4 or 5, Disk- 
elliptic or obovate, slightly unequal, margins slightly saree ‘ 
glands 4, fleshy, rounded, almost contiguous, slightly pitted. 
