708 CXXII. EUPHORBIACE® (HUTCHINSON). [ Phyllanthus. 
glabrescent. Flowers dimcious; males numerous in fascicles in the 
axils of the leaves or fallen leaves of the young branchlets, females 
similarly arranged but only 2 in each fascicle; male pedicel very slen- 
der, 14 lin. long, glabrous or sparingly puberulous, female stouter, 
2-3 lin. long, glabrescent or rather densely puberulous ; bracts large, 
ovate-orbicular, membranous, soon falling off. Male flowers: Sepals 4, 
obovate-oblong, $ lin. long, glabrous. Disk fleshy, entire, glabrous. 
Stamens 4; filaments free to the base ; anthers dehiscing longitudinally. 
Female flowers: Sepals 4, larger than those of the male. Disk large, 
fleshy, flat, entire, very minutely puberulous. Ovary ellipsoid, glabrous ; 
styles connate at the base, the free parts spreading out and flattened, 
bilobed. Capsule 3-4-lobed, 4 lin. in diam., glabrous.—Miill. Arg. in 
DC. Prodr, xv. ii. 416; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, 249; Pax in Bolet. Soc. Brot. 
x. 157; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl]. Welw. i. 960; S. Moore in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. x]. 192. Cicea discoidea, Baill. Adansonia, i. 85. Phyllanthus 
anomalus, Miill. Arg. ].c. 418 (as to Kirk’s specimen from Lake N yassa) ; 
Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236. Securinega bailloniana, Miill. Arg. 
lie. 451, Diasperus discoideus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 599. 
Fluggea obovata, Baill, Adansonia, ii. 41 (not Xylophylla obovata, 
Willd.). F. nitida, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 76, and in Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. C. 236. F. bailloniana, Pax, 1.c. in obs. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: Mbidjem, Thierry, 209! near Albreda, 
Leprieur! Sieka, near Albreda, Perrottet; River Nunez, Heudelot, 102! 789! 
Sierra Leone: various localities, Afzelius ! Smythe,49! Mann, 882! Scott-Elliot, 
5086! 5923! Togo: various localities, Baumann, 5! Kersting, 29! 38! 164! 
Dahomey, Poisson! Lagos: interior, Rowland! Awe, Dodd, 415! Ashasha, 
Conservator of Forests, 452! Ijaye, Barter, 3420! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, 
Barter, 1498! Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 2083! 2530! 2890! 3138! Johann- 
Albrechtshéhe, Staudt, 227! Mba, Ledermann, 2579! Dodo, Ledermann, 2870! 
2909! 2945! 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Mantavayo, Kassner, 146! Taita; Ndi 
Mountain, Scott-Elliot, 6214! Uganda: Entebbe, Mahon! Budongo Forest, Dawe, 
1016! 
Lower Guinea. Princes Island, Mann! Welwitsch, 339! Moller f 
Quintas. Island of St. Thomas, Moller, 118! Gaboon: around Libreville, Klaine, 
169! 194! 589! 1030! 1031! Angola: Golungo Alto; near Suange, Welwitsch, 
$40! Guzengo, Gossweiler, 455! 478! 4519! 4677! 4692! a 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Bovin! German East Africa: various localities, 
Holst, 2176! 2718! Holtz, 344! 1792! 2718! Kirk! Engler, 2193! 2170! 
Zimmerman, 1093! Stuhlmann, 144! 34374! 6051! 6289! 7093! 8084! 
Scheffler,171! Béhm, 90a! Trotha, 23! Portuguese East Africa: Ah apasies 
Stuhlmann, 559! Madanda forests, Swynnerton, 1504! 1749! British Centra 
Africa: Nyasaland; west shore of Lake N yasa, Kirk ! 
20. P. graminicola, Hutchinson ex S. Moore in Journ, Linn. ne 
x]. 191. Asmallherb; stems glabrous. Leaves elliptic, obtuse, rounde 
at the base, 3-4 lin. long, 14-2} lin. broad, membranous, glabrous ; ayes 
nerves 5-6 on each side, spreading, distinct below, fading towards a 
margin ; petiole } lin. long, glabrous; stipules small. Flowers one a 
males axillary, solitary or in pairs; pedicel very slender, rt oy : 
long, glabrous. Sepals 5, obovate, rounded at the apex, 3 lin. long, 
