Phyllanthus.| | CXX11. EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON). 703 
Stamens 5; filaments free; anthers dehiscing longitudinally at the 
side. Female flowers: Sepals 5, ovate-elliptic, membranous. Disk 
saucer-shaped, entire, glabrous. Ovary minutely pitted ; styles 3, erect 
and subconnate in the Jower half, bilobed, lobes spreading, slender. 
Capsule not seen.— Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 342; Hiern in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 957. Diasperus loandensis, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 
Pl. ii, 599. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda; in hilly bushy places on a clay soil behind 
Penedo, rare, Welwitsch, 335! WLoanda, Gossweiler, 146! 266! 
J. P. polyanthus, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 19. A glabrous 
tree with spreading branches. Leaves ovate or oblong, attenuated to 
the apex, subacute at the base, nearly 3 in. long, 1} in. broad, coriaceous, 
shining on both surfaces, margin slightly undulate; petiole 2 lin. long; 
stipules triangular, much shorter than the petiole and not spinescent. 
Male flowers in slender leafless racemose fascicles about 3 in. long, on 
woody branches; pedicel capillary, double the length of the flower. 
Sepals 5, ovate-orbicular, obtuse. Disk-glands 5. Stamens 5; filaments 
unequally free ; anthers dehiscing almost vertically. Female flowers not 
known. Capsule large, 4-celled, 1} in. in diam.—De Wild. & Durand, 
Relig. Dewevr, 204. 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Bangala, on the Congo near Bumba, 
Dewevre, 890. 
Bagshawe, 1493, from Uganda may possibly be this species; see note under 
10, P. physocarpus. 
10. P. physocarpus, Mill, Arg. in Flora, 1864, 515. A tree 
25 ft. high; branches terete, glabrous; branchlets clustered, slender, 
gtooved, glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, acute, subacute or 
very shortly acuminate, obtusely cuneate at the base, }-4 in. long, 
3~1} in. broad, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces, glaucous below ; 
lateral nerves 4-7 on each side, very slender and much branched ; veins 
very lax; petiole 1-2 lin. long, slightly wrinkled, glabrous; stipules 
subulate-filiform, about 1 lin. long, glabrous. Flowers diewcious, males 
few in axillary fascicles, females few and solitary or subsolitary. Male 
Owers: pedicel very slender, about 1} lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 5, 
oblong-ovate, 2 lin. long, } lin. broad, obtuse, entire, very thin and 
membranous, with a slonder midrib. Disk-glands 5, contiguous, trans- 
versely oblong, very thick and fleshy, distinctly pitted. Stamens 5; 
laments free; anthers dehiscing longitudinally at the side. Female 
flowers : pedicel much thicker than those of the male (at least when in 
fruit). Disk annular, subentire. Ovary ovoid, glabrous and smooth; 
styles free almost to the base, bipartite, very slender. Capsules about 
in. in diam., very light; exocarp crustaceous, slightly thicker than 
the very thin yellow endocarp. Seeds subreniform, not at all trique- 
trous, about 34 lin. long; testa mottled and rather dull_—Miill. Arg. in 
DC. Yr. Xv. ii. 342. Diasperus physocarpus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 
Pl. ii. 600. 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Mann, 1133! Barter, 2023! 
A specimen in fruit collected by Dr. Bagshawe (1493) in the Budongo Forest, 
