Phyllanthus.| | CXX11, EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). 701 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kasongo, Dewevre, 950A. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usaramo, Stuhlmann, 1619! Tanga, 
Holst, 2012! Volkens, 98! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; various localities, 
Scott! Scott-Elliot, 8409! Whyte! Buchanan, 947! Rhodesia: near Victoria 
Falls, Miss Gibbs, 129! Galpin, 7016! Matoppo Hills, Rattray in Herb. Galpin, 
6969! 
Var, glader, Miill. Arg. in Linnawa, xxxii. 12. Entirely glabrous, otherwise 
similar to the typical plant.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr., xv. ii. 345; Hiern, lc. 
Phyllanthus polyspermus, Schumach, & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 416. Kirganeliu 
prieuriana, var. glabra, Baill. Adansonia, i. 12. K. zanzibariensis, Baill. Lc. ii. 48. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Kita (Quetta), Thonning/ Lagos, Millen, 53! 
Rowland! Southern Nigeria: River Quorra (Niger), Vogel ! 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Shimba Mountains, Kassner, 193! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Welwitsch, 3253! 
6. P. floribundus, Mill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxii. 14. A trailing shrub 
or climber up to 30 ft. high ; stems terete, glabrous, with short ovate or 
Iinceolate often recurved spines at the base of the lateral leaf-bearing 
branchlets; leafy branchlets slender, spreading, up to 7 in. long, 
thickened at the base, glabrous. Leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, rounded 
and mucronate at the apex or very shortly acuminate from a rounded 
apex, mostly rounded or truncate at the base, #-3 in. long, 4-14 in. 
broad, membranous or the older thinly chartaceous, glabrous on both 
surfaces, often glaucous below; lateral nerves 6-12 on each side, 
Spreading almost at right angles, then curved and branched, slightly 
raised on both surfaces; veins lax and indistinct ; petiole 14 lin, long, 
glabrous ; stipules linear, shorter than the petiole. Flowers monececious, 
racemose ; racemes fasciculate in the axils of the leaf-bearing branchlets, 
slender, up to 2 in. long; flowers in clusters on the main axis of each 
inflorescence, 2 or 3 males surrounding a solitary female; male pedicel 
very slender, 1 lin. long, glabrous, of the female a little shorter 
and stouter. Male flowers: Sepals 5, oblong, rounded at the apex, 
about $ lin. long, glabrous. Disk-glands 5, fleshy, slightly pitted or 
warted. Stamens 5; filaments quite free, slightly unequal ; anthers 
dehiscing at the side. Female flowers: Sepals soon deciduous. Disk 
cupular, entire or undulately lobed, glabrous. Ovary ellipsoid, 
glabrous ; styles 4-5, spreading, very slender, bilobed, lobes linear, 
Subterete. Fruit depressed- globose, 14 lin. in diam. ; mesocarp fleshy. 
eds triquetrous, convex on the back, smooth and faintly reticulate.— 
Mill, Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 343; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 
236, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 103; De Wild. & Durand, 
Relig. Dewevr. 204; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 
275, ii, 266; Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii, 648; Th. & Hél. 
Durand, Syil. Flor. Congol. 482. Phyllanthus floribundus, var. krebed- 
Jensis, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. Mém, viii. 55. Kirganelia 
floribunda, Baill. Adansonia, i. 83. Diasperus floribundus, O. Kuntze, 
Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 597, 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Nunez, Heudelot, 659! Sierra Leone: various 
localities, Scott-Elliot, 4144! 4402! 4625! Johnston, 96! Liberia: near 
Monrovia, Whyte! Togo: various localities, Krause, 17-19! Biittner, 19! 112! 
