Phyllanthus.| | CXXU. EUPHORBIACEE (HUTCHINSON), oat 
Male flowers: Sepals 5, 1-seriate, obovate-spathulate, rounded at the 
apex, 1 lin. long, ? lin. broad, membranous, midrib very faint and 
slender. Disk-glands 5, thin, rounded, smooth. Stamens 3; filaments 
connate to the top; anther-cells distinct, dehiscing jongitudinally. 
Female flowers: Sepals 5, much larger than those of the male, broadly 
elliptic, 2 lin. long, 14 lin. broad, with a very faint median nerve and 
several branching side nerves. Disk very large and supporting the 
stipitate ovary, about 14 lin. high, vertically sulecate or wrinkled. Ovary 
stipitate on the top of the disk, rather deeply lobed, glabrous ; styles free 
almost to the base, bilobed, lobes slightly recurved and obtuse. Capsule 
depressed-globose, about 2 lin. in diam., enclosed by the persistent 
sepals. Seeds with about 15 longitudinal lines on the back, 1} lin. 
long, ? lin. broad.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 359; Hiern in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 959. P. Antunesii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 519. 
Diasperus microdendron, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 600. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; among low bushes in moist places between 
Nene and Lopollo, Welwitsch, 334! and without precise locality, Antunes, 156! 
36. P. amarus, Schum. d: Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 421. A herb 
about 1 ft. high ; stem woody at the base, terete, glabrous ; flowering 
branchlets spreading, slender, up to 54 in. long, terete, glabrous. Leaves 
oblong or elliptic, rounded or almost truncate at both ends, 2-6 lin. 
long, 1-3 lin. broad, thin, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 4—5 
on each side, slender and not at all conspicuous ; petiole very short ; 
stipules subulate-filiform, scarcely 4 lin. long. Flowers moneecious, one 
male and one female in each leaf-axil; pedicel short. Male flowers: 
Sepals 5, ovate, 1-nerved, very small. Disk-glands small. Stamens 3 ; 
filaments connate ; anthers small. Female flowers: Sepals 5, larger than 
those of the male. Disk 5-lobed, thin. Ovary smooth; styles very 
short, bifid. Capsule depressed-globose, trilobed, smooth. Seeds with 
about 5 longitudinal lines on the back.—P. Niruri, var. debilis, Miill. 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 407, partly. P. nirwroides, Stapf in Johnston, 
Liberia, ii. 648, not of Mill. Arg. P. odontadenius, var. ramosa, Beille 
in Bull. Soe. Bot. France, lv. Mém, viii. 56. P. Chevalieri, var., Beille, 
le. 57 (not the type). P. Viruri, var. ndellensis, Beille, Lc., and var. 
genuinus, Beille, l.c. 58, partly, not of Miill. Arg. 
Upper Guinea. Liberia: Monrovia and Sinoe Basin, Whyte! Ivory 
Coast : Bingerville, Chevalier, 16023! Gold Coast: frequent, Thonning! Accra, 
Moloney ! Togo: Sokode, Schréder, 61! Lagos: Dobisowo, Dawodu, 24! 365! 
Eyinolobe, MacGregor, 365! Southern Nigeria: Attah (Idda), Vogel! Old 
Calabar, Milne! Fernando Po, Vogel! 
North Central. Upper Ubangi River, Chevalier, 5668! lake Iro region, 
Chevalier, 8795! Korbo, south of Bagirmi, Chevalier, 8326! Krebedje (Fort 
Sibut), Chevalier, 5668! 5687! 
Nile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2063! 
Lower Guinea. Loango, Soyaux, 199! Lower Congo, Burton ! 
Mozamb, Distr. German East Africa: Tanga, Holst, 2070! Amboni, 
Holst, 2770 | 
