710 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). | Phyllanthus. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Buddu, Scott-Elliot, 7512! Stuhlmann! British 
East Africa: Galunka, Kdssner,788 ! 
22. P. nummularizfolius, Poir. Encycl. v. 302, partly. A small 
much-branched shrub; branches and_ branchlets slightly grooved, 
glabrous. Leaves obovate or rounded-obovate, subacute and mucronate, 
rounded or subacute at the base, 3-9 lin. long, 2-5 lin. broad, mem- 
branous, glabrous on both surfaces, sometimes glaucous below; lateral 
nerves 5-7 on each side, usually prominent on the lower surface; veins 
hardly visible ; petiole 3-3 lin. long, glabrous; stipules, male and female 
flowers, fruits and seeds as in P. capillaris—Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 584; 
Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 337; Pax in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 236. 
Monarda nummularifolia, Baill. Etude Gén. Euphorb. 609. Anisonema 
multiflorwm, Thomson in Speke, Nile Journ. App. 647, not of Wight. 
Diasperus nummulariefolius, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 600. 
Nile Land. Monbuttu: on the Kussumbo River, Schweinfurth, 146! 
Niamniam: by the River Sway, Schweinfurth, 2865! top of Mount Baginse, 
Schweinfurth, 3829! Uganda: Elgon district, James! Madi; near water, 
Speke § Grant! British East Africa: 4 days’ march from Mumias, Whyte ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar: Speke, 4! Hildebrandt, 1042! Kirk! German 
East Africa: Amboni, Holst, 2834! Gonga, Holst, 4239! Portuguese East 
Africa: Mapesi, Johnson, 147! Moramballa, Kirk! Inhambane, Scott ! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland; Fort Hill, Tanganyika Plateau, Whyte! Nyika 
Plateau, MeClounie, 116! Plateau of Mount Zomba, 5000-6000 ft., Whyte! 
near Blantyre, Last! und without precise locality, Buchanan, 308! 
Occurs also in Madagascar, 
23 P. somalensis, Hutchinson. A shrub 4-7 ft. high; branches 
flexuous, subterete, covered with a brown bark; flowering branchlets 
produced singly on rather short shoots, slender, slightly flexuous, 
subterete, glabrous. Leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic, obtuse at both 
ends, 3-3 in. long, }-1 in. broad, thin, glaucous below; Jateral nerves 
about 5 on each side, branched some distance from the margin, distinct 
below ; petiole about 4 lin. long, smooth ; stipules subulate, acute, $ lin. 
long, with slightly jagged margins. Flowers monecious, axillary, three 
or four males and a solitary female in each leaf-axil. Male flowers: 
pedicel 2 lin. long, terete, glabrous. Sepals 4 or 5, obovate alnpa 
about } lin. long, 4 lin. broad, glabrous, membranous. Disk-glan : 
4-5, rounded, fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 4-5; filaments quite — 
anthers oblong, cells parallel and dehiscing longitudinally. oP nas 
flowers: pedicel and sepals as in the male. Disk annular, flesby, 
slightly undulately lobed between the sepals, glabrous. Ovary pa 
smooth; styles 3-5, flat and broad, 2—4-fid, reflexed over the top of e 
ovary. Capsule about 2 lin, in diam. Seeds much compressed lateral y 
smooth.—Cluytiandra somalensis, Pax in Eng]. Jahrb. xxxill. 277, as 
to Ellenbeck, 2193, not description. 
Nile Land. Somaliland: Galla Highlands; Boran country, Ellenbeck, 2193! 
24. P. pentandrus, Schum. : Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 419. hi 
much-branched herb up to 18 in. high; stem woody, subterete, 
