Phyllanthus.| — CXX11, EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON). 718 
pubescent. Leaves ovate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, subcordate at 
the base, 4-? in. long, }-} in. broad, subcoriaceous, margin recurved ; 
lateral nerves about 6 on each side, looped; petiole } lin. long, 
somewhat fleshy, glabrous; stipules deciduous. Flowers dicecious, 
males in pairs, females solitary. Male pedicel 24 lin. long,’ slender, 
glabrous. Sepals 6, obovate, 1-nerved, membranous. Disk-glands 6, 
rounded, pitted. Stamens 3; filaments free. Female pedicel stouter: 
than those of the males. Sepals 6, in 2 series, ovate, narrowed to the 
apex. Disk cupular, crenulate. Styles 3, rather thick, bilobed to about 
the middle, spreading stellately over the top of the ovary. Capsule 
globose, 3 lin.in diam. Seeds subtriquetrous, convex on the back, quite 
smooth. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Labe, 3300 ft., Chevalier, 12305! Fouta 
Jullon ; high plateaux between Dintinu and Diaguissa, Chevalier, 12907! Diaguissa, 
Chevalier, 12943! 
28. P. glaucophyllus, Sond., var. major, Mill. Arg. in Flora, 
1864, 514. Stems numerous, slender, subsimple, arising from a woody 
rootstock, angular or flattened, finely sulcate, glabrous. Leaves ovate, 
mucronate, rounded or almost subcordate at the base, 4—9 lin. long, 
firmly membranous, glabrous and often glaucous on both surfaces; 
lateral nerves 5-7 on each side, looped some distance from the margin, 
distinct below ; petiole very short, 4 lin. long, glabrous; stipules ovate 
or ovate-lanceolate, subpeltately attached or auriculate at the base, a 
little longer than the petiole, membranous, brown, glabrous. Male 
flowers solitary towards the ends of the shoots; pedicel very slender, 
2 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 6, unequal, oblong, obtuse, entire, the 
largest. about 3 lin. long and 4 lin. broad. Disk-glands 6, large, flat, 
orbicular, peltately attached. Stamens 3 ; filaments quite free ; anthers 
dehiscing at the side. Female flowers solitary in the lower parts of the 
Shoots ; pedicel about 3 lin. long when in fruit. Sepals a little larger 
than in the male. Disk flat and annular and slightly lobed, glabrous. 
Ovary 6-lobed, glabrous ; styles free, bilobed, lobes very slender. Cap- 
Sule depressed -globose, 3- or obscurely 6-lobed, 14 lin. in diam., glabrous. 
—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 393 ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Ukamba; Kitui, on waste ground, Hilde- 
brandt, 2690 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: River Longa, Gossweiler, 4065 partly ! 
Mozamb. Distr. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, 
Buchanan, 154! 269! 1351! Adamson, 154! Blantyre, Scott! Ndirandi 
Mountain, Scott-Elliot, 8496! Mount Mlanji, Scott-Elliot, 8641! Rhodesia ; 
Broken Hill, Rogers, 8071 ! 
Occurs with the type in South Africa, 
29. P. benguelensis, Miill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 331. An 
annual slender erect herb about 9 in. high; stem terete, glabrous, 
branched in the upper part; branches terete. Leaves oblong-elliptic 
or oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute, rounded and slightly unequal at 
the base, 3-7 lin. long, 2-3} lin. broad, very membranous, glabrous on 
