706 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON). | Phyllanthus. 
branchlets often produced in fascicles, short, about 1 in. long, sharply 
angular, distinctly asperulate, bearing 3-5 pairs of leaves. Leaves 
broadly elliptic or nearly rounded, slightly mucronate at the apex, 
2-34 lin. long, 14~3 lin. broad, chartaceous, asperulate on both surfaces 
and on the margins; lateral nerves about 3 on each side, faint ; petiole 
very short; stipules lanceolate, acute, 4 lin. long, somewhat mem- 
branous. Flowers creamy-white, moneecious, solitary in each leaf-axil, 
females towards the ends of the branchlets, males towards the base ; 
pedicel short. Male flowers: Sepals 6, linear-oblong, obtuse, 1} lin. 
long, 4 lin. broad, 1-nerved, glabrous. Disk-glands 6, rounded, fleshy, 
smooth. Stamens 3 ; filaments connate to the top intoa slender column ; 
anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Female flowers: Sepals 6, in two 
distinct series, the outer ovate, 13 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, the inner 
oblong and narrower, faintly 1-nerved. Disk large and thick, fleshy, 
rather coarsely wrinkled, glabrous. Ovary lobed, smooth ; styles erect, 
thick, connate in the lower half; stigmas capitate, globose. Capsule 
thin. Seeds with about 5 very faint lines on the back.—Pax in Engl. 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236, and in Engl. Jahrb, xxx. 338; S. Moore in Journ. 
Linn. Soe. x]. 192. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Ambriz, Monteiro! 
Mozamb. Distr. (German East Africa: Ubena; Liangira, Goetze, 795. 
Portuguese East Africa: Stuhlmann, 850! Mbussonil and Cabeceira, Rodrigues 
de Cavalho! Maconi Madanda, 200 ft., Johnson, 102! Madanda forests, 
Swynnerton, 1756 ! 1757! 
16, P. Keessneri, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 315. A shrub; 
branches terete, with a greyish-brown bark ; flowering branchlets fascl- 
culate or rarely solitary, produced on woody outgrowths from the main 
branches, very slender, terete, glabrous, bearing about 5 pairs of leaves. 
Leaves obovate or obovate-elliptic, rounded and sometimes slightly emar- 
ginate at the apex, subcuneate at the base, 24—4 lin. long, 14-2 lin. broad, 
very thinly chartaceous, yellowish-brown on the upper surface when dry, 
glaucous below, glabrous and conspicuously reticulate on both surfaces ; 
lateral nerves 4—5 on each side, distinct on both surfaces ; petiole 3 lin. 
long, glabrous ; stipules obliquely lanceolate, reddish, about as jong as 
the petiole, margins slightly jagged. Flowers moneecious, one mate pa 
two females in each leaf-axil; pedicel of the male slender, 2-3 lin. long, 
glabrous, of the female stouter, 1 lin. long. Male flowers: Sepals 6, 
in two distinct series, the outer small, ovate, obtuse, the inner obovate, 
$ lin. long, } lin, broad, all rather fleshy or coriaceous, 1-nerved and 
glabrous. Disk-glands 6, slightly stalked, fleshy, rounded, smooth vs 
nearly so. Stamens 3, quite free to the base ; filaments long and slender ; 
anther-cells diverging, the line of dehiscence continuous through the 
cells, Female flowers : Sepals 6, in two series, the outer small, the inner 
broadly ovate, somewhat coriaceous. Disk annular, subentire. Ovary 
ovoid, slightly lobed, smooth ; styles suberect, free to the base, bilobed, 
lobes linear and not swollen at the tips. Fruit not seen. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Pemba River, Kassner, 356! 
