700 OXXII, EUPHORBIACER (HUTCHINSON). [Phyllanthus. 
stipules linear, membranous with jagged margins, about 1 lin. long, soon 
falling off. Male flowers in axillary fascicles on the young branchlets, 
surrounded at the base by laciniate brown bracts ; pedicel short, glabrous. 
Sepals 5, elliptic-ovate, acute, 1-nerved, ? lin. long, $ lin. broad, glabrous. 
Disk-glands 5, rounded, fleshy, nearly smooth. Stamens 5, three fila- 
ments connate to near the top, the other two free nearly to the base; 
anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Female flowers not’ known. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Unyamwezi; Mugondi, Trotha, 72! 
Mgogondi, Trotha, 2p!  Kagehi, on Lake Victoria, Fischer, 554! Karagwe; 
Thangiro, Stuhlmann, 904! 
5. P. reticulatus, Poir. Eneycl. v. 298. An erect much-branched 
shrub; stems pubescent, at length nearly glabrous ; flowering branchlets 
sometimes produced in fascicles, but more often solitary, up to 2} in. 
long, densely crisped-pubescent. Leaves oblong or elliptic, mostly 
rounded at both ends, $-1} in. long, 34-7 lin. broad, somewhat men- 
branous, glabrous or crisped-pubescent ; lateral nerves 7-9 on each side ; 
petiole pubescent ; stipules lanceolate, acute. Flowers monccious, 
axillary, one female and two or three males in each fascicle ; pedicel 
slender, up to 2 lin. long, slightly pubescent or glabrous. Male flowers: 
Sepals 5, ovate-elliptic, I-nerved, about 3 lin. long. Disk-glands 5, 
obovate, flattened, smooth.. Stamens 5; two or three of the filaments 
connate to near the top, the two others always free and much shorter ; 
anthers dehiscing at the side, cells cohering at their tips, diverging at 
the base. Female flowers: Sepals as in the male. Disk of separate 
glands similar to those of the male. Ovary depressed-globose, glabrous ; 
styles very short, erect and crowded. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous, 8-16- 
seeded, about 3 lin. in diam. Seeds irregularly trigonous, punctulate. 
—Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236; Durand & De Wild. in Bull. Soc. 
Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 103; De Wild. & Durand, Relig. Dewevr. 205; De 
Wild. Miss. £. Laurent, 127, and Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, !. 
275, ii, 268; Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 469. Phyllanthus 
multiflorus, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 581. P. priewrianus, Miill. Arg. 1 
Linnea, xxxii. 12. P. alaternoides, Reichb. ex Baill. Adansonia, 1. - 
P. reticulatus, var. genuinus, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. U. B44 ; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 958. Anisonema reticulatum, Adr. J ee 
Kuph. t. 4, fig. 11. Kirganelia reticulata, Baill. Etude Gén. Kuphor : 
613. K. priewriana, Baill. Adansonia, i. 82.  Diasperus reticulatus, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 600. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Senegal, Sieber, 41! Leprieur ! Ragen 
64, 751, 752. Western Sudan: from El Massara to Djygm, Chevalier, 34 . 
Northern Nigeria: Katagum district, Dalziel, 210! sand-flats of the River 
Benue, Dalziel, 161! North Bornu; near Duchi, Elliott, 143! Southern Nigeria: 
Attah (Idda), Vogel, 114! Cameroons: Garua, Ledermann, 3253! : 
Wile Land. Sudan: Sedab, between Berber and Khartum, Schwer 
540! near Khartum, Schweinfurth, 868! Atbara, Broun, 1017! Mittu: 
Schweinfurth, 2828! British East Africa: Witu, Thomas, 202! ; 979 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: various localities, Dewevre ; ale, pi 
4045, Pynaert, 191, Laurent, Biittner. Ango'a: Loan‘a, Welwitsch, 325! 
weiler, 245! Benguela, Welwitsch, 326! 
nfurth, 
Mvolo, 
