Phyllanthus.|| | CXX11. EUPHORBIACEE (HUTCHINSON). 715 
l-nerved, membranous, glabrous. Disk-glands 5, orbicular, flattened, 
covered with wart-like protuberances. Stamens 3; filaments connate ; 
anthers 4-lobed, dehiscing obliquely. Female flowers not known.— 
Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 409; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 
960. P. arvensis, Pax in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 281, not of 
Miill. Arg. Diasperus microphyllinus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 600. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in mountainous cultivated places 
near the Presidium, Welwitsch, 312!  Amboella district ; by the Longa River at 
Napalanka, Baum, 590! 
32. P. sublanatus, Schum. &: Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 420. Stem 
terete, glabrous ; branches slender, spreading, slightly angular, glabrous. 
Leaves oblong-elliptic, rounded at the base and apex, 13-4 lin. long, 
1-1} lin. broad, membranous, very slightly woolly or nearly glabrous on 
both surfaces ; lateral nerves about 5 on each side, slightly promi- 
nent above, indistinct below; petiole very short, } lin. long, glabrous ; 
stipules subulate, glabrous, about } lin. long. Flowers axillary, soli- 
tary, males towards the base of the flowering branch, females in the 
upper part; pedicel $ lin. long, glabrous. Male flowers: Sepals 5, 
very small, about 4 lin. long. Disk-glands very minute. Stamens 3; 
filaments connate ; anthers subconnate. Female flowers: Sepals 5, sub- 
equal, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, } lin. long, } lin. broad, with a broad 
middle nerve, membranous towards the margin. Disk entire, annular, 
glabrous. Ovary ellipsoid, slightly 6-lobed, glabrous ; stigmas 3, sessile. 
Capsule depressed-globose, obscurely 6-lobed, 1 lin. in diam. Seeds 
subtriquetrous, convex on the back, 3 lin. long, } lin. broad, marked 
with close longitudinal lines, about seven of them on the outer convex 
side.— Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 359. Diasperus sublanatus, 
0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 601. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Buyabuya, Scott-Elliot, 4267! Gold Coast : 
Accra, Ansell! and without precise locality, Thonning ! 
33. P. niruroides, Miill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 331. An 
annual herb up to 24 ft. high; stem erect, longitudinally grooved, 
glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apex mucronate, rounded 
or slightly cuneate at the base, 3-4 lin. long, 1-2 lin. broad, mem- 
ranous, zlabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves inconspicuous ; petiole 
short, glabrous ; stipules filiform, scarcely 1 lin. long, glabrous. Male 
flowers two or three together in the axils of the lower leaves ; pedicel 
very short. Sepals 5, obovate, rounded at the apex, } lin. long, 1-nerved, 
membranous, glabrous. Disk-glands 5, rounded, fleshy, warted. 
tamens 3 ; filaments connate ; anthers dehiscing at the side. Female 
wers solitary in the upper leaf-axils; pedicel thickened towards the 
top, 3 lin. long, glabrous, Sepals larger than in the male. Disk stellately 
5-lobed, flat, thin, glabrous. Ovary slightly lobed, densely covered with 
wart-like protuberances ; styles very slender, free, bilobed to about the 
middle, lobes linear, terete. Capsule trilobed, depressed-globose, 1 lin. 
in diam., conspicuously warted. Seeds flattened on the sides, convex 
on the back, marked with several longitudinal lines.—Miill. Arg. in 
