Phylianthus,| | CXX11, EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON). 711 
glabrous; flowering branchlets very slender, more or less flexuous, 
glabrous or very minutely and sparingly asperulate. Leaves oblong- 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, subacute, usually obtuse at the base, up 
to ? in. long and } in. broad, thin, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral 
nerves about 5 on each side, slightly prominent below; petiole about 
+ lin. long, glabrous; stipules lanceolate, tapered into a fine point, 
3 lin. long, glabrous. Flowers monecious, males 2-3 together in the 
axils of the lower leaves, females solitary in the upper leaves of the 
branchlets; pedicel slender, short, glabrous. Male flowers: Sepals 5, ovate 
or elliptic, subacute, small, broadly 1-nerved, membranous towards the 
margin, glabrous, Disk-glands 5, flat, smooth and thin. Stamens 5; 
filaments tree; anthers dehiscing at the side. Female flowers: Sepals 
as in the male. Disk flat, entire, glabrous. Ovary lobed, minutely 
beaded; styles spreading horizontally, very short, bifid. Capsule 
depressed-globose, about 1 lin. in diam., scarcely lobed. Seeds marked 
with 5-6 longitudinal lines of dots on the back.—Miill. Arg. in DC. 
Prodr, xv. ii. 336 (incl. vars.); Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 957; 
Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C, 236; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen- 
Congo, i. 275. P. piluliferus, Fenzl in Flora, 1844, 312, name only ; 
Benth, in Hook. Niger Flora, 510.  P. linoides, Hochst. ex Baill. 
Adansonia, i. 84, name only. P. linifolius, Vabl ex Baill. 1.c., name only. 
P. deflecus, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot.104. P. dilatatus, 
Klotzsch, lic. 106. P. scoparius, Welw. Apont. 591, No. 110. P. 
tenellus, var., Pax in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 282, not of Roxb. : 
P, Niruri, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 1909, 139, not of Linn. Menarda 
linifolia, Baill. |.c., name only.  Diasperus pentandrus, O. Kuntze, 
Rev. Gen. Pi. ii. 600. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot, 466! Leprieur! Richard ! 
Lelievre ! Perrottet! Dahomey, Burton / Newton, 7! Gold Coast: Aburi, Anderson, 2 
Christiansborg, Thonning! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 2! Lagos: interior, 
Rowland! lesa Road, Denton, 21! Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter! Lokoja, 
Parsons, 20! Katagum district, Dalziel, 206! Southern Nigeria: Stirling Hill, 
on the Niger, Vogel, 136! Cameroons: Garua, Ledermann, 4497! 
Wile Land. Kordofan: Rabad, Broun,874! Obeid, Kotschy, 303 ! Ae 
Mountain, Kotschy, 89! Pfund,9! Umsutt, Pfund, 382! Takari, Pfund, 380! 
Ethiopia : Kotschy, 115! 
Lower Guinea. French Congo: Loango, Soyaur, 192 Lower Congo: 
between the Kwango River and Kisantu, Biittuer. Angola: Loanda, Welwitsch, 324! 
Gossweiler, 380! Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 322! 323! On the Longa River 
near Napalanka, Baum, 584! German South West Africa: Okahandya, Dinter ! 
a Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi; near Sena, 
Kirk! Peters! Tete, Peters! Morambala Mountain, Scott! Mozambique, 
Rodrigues de Cavalhv! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; various localities, 
Whyte! McClounie, 48! Buchanan, 909! Rhodesia; various localities, Kolbe, 
3175! Rogers, 7166! 8275! Ngamiland; Kwebe Hills, Lugard, 155! Mrs. 
Lugard, 80! 
Oceurs also in South Africa. 
_, P. deflexus and P, dilatatus from Sena were described as having only 3 stamens 
Jomed at the base. By the courtesy of Prof. Engler I have been able to examine 
the types of these species, and both have 5 s:amens as in typical P. pentandrus. 
