702 CXXII, EUPHORBIACE (HUTCHINSON). — [| Phyllanthus. 
157! Kersting, 42! 165! 171! 4380! Graf Zech, 291-293! Lagos: various 
localities, Barter, 3280! Rowland! Moloney! MacGregor, 159! Northern 
Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1666! Zungeru, Dalziel, 64! Southern Nigeria: Old 
Calabar River, Mann, 2262! Idda, Barter, 454! Cameroons: various localities, 
Zenker & Staudt, 458! Zenker, 1310! 2486! 2729! 3657! Staudt, 571! 
Ledermann, 3801! 4831! 2106! 2773! Bates,377! Fernando Po, Mann, 12! 
North Central. Lake Iroregion, Chevalier, 8755! Ndellé, Chevalier, 8037! 
Nile Land. Bongo, Schweinfurth, 2209! 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Mann, 1076! French Congo: 
Krebedjé; valley of the Tomi, Chevalier, 5394! Boma; Upper Shiloango, Cabra 
§ Michel. Stanley Pool; Kimuenza, Gillet. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Monbuttu; Munza, Schweinfurth, 3359! 
3449! Niamniam: Diagbe River, Schweinfurth, 3111! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, 
Scott-Elliot, 8313! 8351! 
7. P. Dinklagei, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix.77. A shrub ; branches 
spiny, angular or subterete, glabrous; flowering branchlets spreading, 
slender, 2-34 in. long, with up to 14 pairs of leaves, rather sharply 
angular, glabrous. Leaves oblong, rounded at both ends, 5-7 lin. Jong, 
1}-3 lin. broad, very thin, darker and closely reticulate on the upper 
surface, glabrous on both surfaces, glaucous below; lateral nerves 9-12 
on each side, not at all raised on either surface; petiole } lin. long, 
glabrous ; stipules subulate, nearly twice the length of the petiole, 
margin slightly serrulate or jagged. Flowers moncecious, axillary, 
one female and three or four males in each leaf-axil; pedicel very 
slender, glabrous, of the male 2-24 lin. long, of the female a 
little shorter, Male flowers: Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, 
3 lin. long, not membranous, glabrous. Disk-glands 5, small, rounded, 
fleshy. Stamens 5; filaments free, 3 long and 2 shorter; anthers 
dehiscing Jongitudinally. Female flowers: Sepals as in the male. Disk 
cupular, rather fleshy, crenulate. Ovary ovoid, smooth ; styles erect, 
connate in the lower half, free portion bilobed to near the base, lobes 
linear and very slender, reflexed or reflexed-spreading. Capsule sub- 
globose, about 1 lin. in diam.; exocarp slightly fleshy. Mature seeds 
not seen. 
‘Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Efulen, Bates, 371! between Mundane and 
Otam, Schlechter, 12887! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Sibange Farm, Dinklage, 583! 
8. P. loandensis, Welw. ex Mill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 32). 
An undershrub, woody at the base; stem erect, 2~3 ft. high, branched ; 
branchlets slender, glabrous. Leaves elliptic or obovate, obtuse at bot 
ends, obtusely mucronulate at the apex, 2-4 lin. long, 1-24 lin. broad, 
slightly coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves Tee 
each side, slightly prominent below; veins not visible ; petiole ae 
long, glabrous; stipules subulate, a little longer than the petiole. i . 
flowers: pedicel } lin. long, glabrous. Sepals obovate, rounded ye 
apex, } lin. long, } lin. broad, membranous, with a distinet mi - 
glabrous. Disk-glands 5, broadly obovate, truncate, thin, glabrous. 
