Phyllanthus.| | CXX11, EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). 707 
17. P. Hildebrandtii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 526. A glabrous 
shrub about 7 ft. high ; branches terete ; flowering branchlets produced 
in fascicles, about } in. long, bearing about 4 pairs of leaves. Leaves 
elliptic or obovate-elliptic, rounded at both ends, 2-4 lin. long, 14-3 lin. 
broad, very thinly chartaceous; petiole very short; stipules ovate- 
triangular, lacerate towards the apex. Flowers diccious, axillary, 
solitary, shortly pedicellate. Male flowers: Sepals 6, oblong or oblong- 
linear, 1-nerved, membranous. Disk-glands 6, flat and rounded, slightly 
warted. Stamens 3 ; filaments united to near the top, the column very 
slightly produced into a little knob in the middle of the anthers; 
anthers dehiscing at the side. Female flowers not known. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Ahl Mountains; among rocks near Maid, Hilde- 
brandt, 1537! 
18. P. sepialis, Will. Arg. in Abhandl. Naturw. Ver. Bremen, vii. 
25. A shrub about 7 ft. high; branches woody, somewhat angular when 
young, glabrous ; flowering branchlets up to 2 in. long, slightly flattened 
or subterete, glabrous. Leaves obovate or obovate-elliptic, rounded or 
truncate and very slightly mucronulate at the apex, broadly cuneate at 
the base, 3-5 lin. long, 14-3 lin. broad, thin, glabrous on both surfaces ; 
lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, very slightly raised below; petiole 
scarcely 3 lin. long, glabrous; stipules lanceolate, membranous, a little 
longer than the petiole. Flowers diccious, or at least the males and 
females on separate shoots. Males two or three together in each leaf- 
axil; pedicel slender, about 1 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 6, elliptic, 
rounded or slightly pointed at the apex, about } lin. long, 1-nerved, 
membranous, glabrous. Disk-glands 6, flat, contiguous, slightly warted. 
Stamens 3 ; filaments connate ; anthers dehiscing at the side. Female 
Owers axillary, solitary ; pedicel 14 lin. long, slender, glabrous. Sepals 
“Sin the male. Disk flat, rather deeply 5-6-lobed ; lobes crenulate, 
glabrous, Ovary subglobose, not lobed, glabrous ; styles free to the 
» Slender, spreading, bilobed to about the middle, lobes linear. 
Capsule not seen.—Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236. P. Conradi, 
Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii, 75. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ukamba; near Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2695! 
Mozamb. Distr. German Kast Africa: Kilimanjaro; Moschi, Engler, 1871 ! 
euwied, Ukerewe Island, Conrad, 286! 
wy. P. discoideus, Miill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxii. 51. A tree 
30-50 ft. high, but someétimes a shrub; branches finely sulcate, sub- 
terete ; lateral flowering branchlets about 2} in. long, spreading, 
‘nisped-puberulous or more rarely glabrescent. Leaves ovate-elliptic to 
obovate-oblanceolate, rounded or very shortly acuminate at the apex, 
varying from rounded to cuneate at the base, 1-4 in. long, 2-14 in. 
road, thinly chartaceous or membranous, glabrous on both surfaces 
xcept on the midrib which is sometimes puberulous below ; lateral 
nerves 6-12 on each side, spreading, slightly raised on both surfaces ; 
veins slender and rather close; petiole 13-2 lin. long, tomentellous ; 
Stipules soon falling off, oblong-linear, 13-24 lin. long, membranous, 
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