Phyllanthus.| | CXX11, EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). 699 
two of the filaments quite connate, the two others shorter and free ; 
anther-cells diverging from their apex, dehiscing at the side. Female 
flowers not known.—Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Genova, 1892, 360, 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Lalamba Mount:in, near Keren, Schweinfurth, 881! 
Ginda, Schweinfurth, 404. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, 
Buchanan, 169! 
Occurs also in Arabia. 
3. P. guineensis, Pax in Bull. Herb. Boiss. lve sér. vi. 732. A 
shrub, much branched from the base, 3-10 ft. high; branches angular, 
glabrous, with spinescent stipules; flowering branchlets produced in 
clusters of 2-4, up to 8 in, long, leafy, glabrous. Leaves oblong or 
oblong-elliptic, truncate or rounded and often mucronate at the apex, 
rounded or obtuse at the base, 4-3 in. long, 14~4 lin. broad, thin or very 
slightly chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves spreading, 
very faint, about 7 on each side ; petiole 3 lin. long, glabrous; stipules 
on the flowering branchlets oblong, brown, membranous, ciliate. 
Flowers moneecious, axillary, about 4 or 5 males and 1 female in each 
fascicle ; pedicel slender, 14 lin. long, glabrous. Male flowers: Sepals 4, 
ovate, obtuse or subacute, # lin. long, 1-nerved, glabrous. Disk-glands 
4, rounded or transversely oblong, fleshy, slightly pitted. Stamens 4, 
two of the filaments connate for nearly their full length, the other two 
free and slightly shorter; anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Female 
flowers : Sepals 5, a little longer than those of the male. Disk fleshy, 
cupular, very slightly crenulate or entire. Ovary ovoid or ellipsoid, 
slightly wrinkled, glabrous; styles long and slender, free to the base, 
entire or very minutely bifid. Fruits fleshy, ellipsoid, about 2 lin. in 
diam. Ripe seeds not seen.—P. floribundus, Hiern in Cat. Afr, Pl. 
Welw. i. 957, not of Miill. Arg. P. ugandensis, Rendle in Journ, Linn. 
oc. Xxxvii. 210, 
Wile Land. Uganda: coast of Victoria Nyanza, Bagshawe, 571! Dumu, 
Dawe, 29! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda; Cazengo, Gossweiler, 4882! Golungo 
Alto; near Sange and Bango, Welwitsch, 319! near the rivulet Delamboa, Welwitsch, 
318! Ambaca; near a dried-up stream near Hilo, Welwitsch, 320! Pungo 
Andongo, Welwitsch, 3178! Malange district, Gossweiler, 960! 965! 969! Antunes, 
1243! Kunene region; on the banks of the Kakulovar River, Dekindt, 844. 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Buchanan, 353! 469! 
Ntondwe, Cameron, 135! 
4. P. Engleri, Pax in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 236. A tree about 
18 ft. high; stem slender; branches knotted with perennial spiny buds 
which produce annually several flowering branchlets in fascicles ; flower- 
ing branchlets 3-4 in each fascicle, somewhat slender, up to 7 in. long, 
finely sulcate, glabrous, Leaves rounded or elliptic, mucronate and 
Sometimes slightly emarginate, }-3? in. long, }-} in. broad, firmly 
-Chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, glaucous below; lateral nerves 
Scarcely visible, about 5 on each side; petiole 3 lin. long, glabrous ; 
