Phyllanthus.| | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). 705 
branous, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, 
distinct on both surfaces and slightly raised below; petiole ? lin. long, 
slender ; stipules linear, 1-14 lin. long, glabrous, membranous. Flowers 
dicecious, solitary, female pedicel about 1 lin. long, the male much 
shorter. Male flowers: Sepals 6, oblong-elliptic, 1-nerved, scarcely 
3 lin. long. Disk-glands 6, flattened, rounded and prominently warted. 
Stamens 3 ; filaments free to the base; anther-cells distinct, dehiscing 
at the side. Female flowers: Sepals 6, oblong-oblanceolate, 3 lin. long, 
3 lin. broad, with a broad green portion in the middle, margins trans- 
parent and membranous. Disk thin, saucer-shaped, crenulate. Ovary 
subglobose, slightly warted ; styles free to the base, slender, bilobed to 
below their middle, lobes linear and not swollen at the apex. Capsule 
depressed globose, reticulate, about 1} lin. in diam. Seeds with about 
6 or 7 faint longitudinal lines on the back.—Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
C. 236. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Tana River, Battiscombe, 240! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Meru Mountain, Fischer, 102! 
532! between Meru Mountain and Kilimanjaro, Merker, 610! Kilimanjaro; 
various localities, Merker, 609! Folkens, 1718! 1639! 1640! south of Mondul, 
Uhlig, 424! 
14. P, virgulatus, Will. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 330. Anunder- 
shrub; stems elongated, woody, finely longitudinally sulcate, glabrous ; 
flowering branches slender, spreading, up to 5 in. long, subterete. Leaves 
linear-lanceolate, produced into a sharp spinescent apex, narrowed to the 
base, the largest } in. long, 1} lin. broad, coriaceous, 1-nerved, with a 
cartilaginous margin, glabrous on both surfaces; petiole very short ; 
stipules rigidly subulate from a broader base, very acute, 1} lin. long. 
lowers dicecious, males axillary, solitary, or sometimes accompanied by 
one or two rudimentary ones, shortly pedicellate. Sepals 6, in 2 series, 
3 outer elliptic, rounded at the apex, 1} lin. long, ? lin. broad, 3 inner 
a little narrower, all with a faint median nerve and several lateral ones. 
Disk-glands 6, thin, smooth. Stamens 3; filaments connate; anthers 
dehiscing at the sides. Female flowers solitary ; pedicel about 1 lin. 
long, much thickened towards the top. Sepals 6, in 2 series, 3 outer 
ones small, ovate, obtuse, 3 inner ovate-oblong, 1} lin. long, } lin. broad, 
the whole very thick and coriaceous without visible veins. Disk entire, 
annular, flat, glabrous. Ovary subglobose, slightly lobed, glabrous ; 
styles erect, free to the base, entire, stigma subeapitate. Ripe capsule 
hot seen.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 360; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Yelw. i. 959; Pax in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 282. Diasperus 
virgulatus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 601. 
. Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in thickets between Bumba and 
Condo, near the great Cataract of the Cuanza River, Welwitsch, 328! by the Kutsi 
‘ver above Kapulo, 4300 ft., Baum, 893! east. of Fort Princeza Amelia, Cubango, | 
osswveiler, 2000! along the wagon road at Canguia, near Munonque, Gossweiler, 
9! Mount Amaral and Kubango, Gossweiler, 1827 ! 
15. P, macranthus, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 77. A small compact 
Shrub ; bark of the stem splitting longitudinally, brown; flowering 
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