Phyllanthus.| | CXX11. EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON). 709 
4 lin. broad, membranous, glabrous. Disk-glands transversely oblong, 
¢ lin. broad, very thin and smooth. Stamens 4-5, filaments free to the 
base; anther-cells divergent, dehiscing at the side. Female flowers 
not known. 
Mozamb. Distr. Rhodesia: near Chirinda, Swynnerton, 261! 
21. P. capillaris, Schum. d: Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 417. A 
small shrub 2-4 ft. high; branches and branchlets slender, slightly 
grooved or terete, whitish-pubescent. Leaves obovate or elliptic- 
obovate, rounded or subacute and slightly mucronate, slightly cuneate 
or obtuse at the base, 4-12 lin. long, 3-5 lin. broad, membranous, 
glabrous, glaucous-green on the lower surface; lateral nerves 5-9 on 
each side, prominent below ; veins scarcely visible on either side; petiole 
} lin. long, glabrous; stipules lanceolate, subulate at the apex, i lin. 
long, } lin. broad towards the base, entire, glabrous. Flowers in axillary 
fascicles on the young branchlets, females often solitary or subsolitary ; 
pedicel very slender, up to ? in. long, glabrous. Male flowers: Sepals 
5, broadly obovate, 4 lin. long, 3 lin. broad. Disk of 5 obovate truncate 
fleshy glands alternating with the sepals. Stamens 5, free; anthers 
rounded, dehiscing at the side. Female flowers: Sepals 4-5 (usually 5), 
ovate-elliptic, obtuse at both ends, } lin. long, 4 lin. broad, entire, 
membranous with a conspicuous greenish-yellow midrib. Disk saucer- 
shaped, entire, glabrous. Ovary globose, glabrous; styles 3, free, 
slender, bipartite nearly to the base, spreading or reflexed. Capsule 
depressed-globose, 1 lin. in diam., smooth; seeds convex on the back, 
testa brown, minutely and closely pitted.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 
Xv. N. 338 (incl. vars.); Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236; Hiern in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 957; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 242 ; 
De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 103; De Wild. Miss. 
E. Laurent, 127, and Etudes FI. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 196, t. 54, 
and Pl. Thonner. Congol. 22; Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 648. 
Diasperus capillaris, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 598. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: near Erimakuna, Scott-Hiliot, 5245! Samu 
Country, Scott-Elliot, 5041! Liberia: Sinoe Basin, Whyte! Ivory Coast: 
Bingerville, Chevalier, 16071! Kapiacron, Chevalier, 17178! Gold Coast, 
Thonning ! Burton! Togo: Bismarkburg, Biittner, 333! Lagos, Phillips, 33! 
Uillson, 146! Rowland! Southern Nigeria: Old Calabar, Holland, 85! Bonny, 
Kalbreyer, 44! Cameroons: Cameroon River, Mann, 758! 2226! Yaunde, 
Zenker, 1410 ! Zenker  Staudt,95! Efulen, Bates, 380! 
Nile Land. Mittu: Kuraggera, Schweinfurth, 2763! Uganda: waste 
Sround, Wilson, 102! British East Africa: Ukamba, Scott-Hiliot, 6439 ! 
Ge Lower Guinea. Spanish Guinea: Bebai, Zessmann, 430! 584! Lower 
Ngo: various localities, Cabra, Vanderyst, Dupont, Dewevre, Laurent, Gillet. 
Angola : Golungo Alto; Welwitsch, 336! Malange, Gossweiler, 984! 
— Central. Belgian Congo: various localities, Laurent, Schlechter, 
! Hens, 142! Thonner, Descamps. 
Mozamb Distr. German East Africa: Umbugwe and Iraku, Merker, 126! 
Var. Stuhlnanii, Hutchinson. Pedicels and midrib of the leaves crisped- 
pubescent ; leaves 13~3 lin. long.—P. Stuhlmanii, Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236. 
