720 CXXI. EUPHORBIACEE (HUTCHINSON). | Phyllanthus. 
stipules lanceolate, very acute, } lin. long, brownish and somewhat mem- 
branous. Flowers diecious, solitary or subsolitary ; pedicel very short, 
Male flowers : Sepals 6, sub—l-seriate, obovate, subacute, 3 lin. long, with 
a very broad green median portion, margins membranous and trans- 
parent, glabrous. Disk-glands 6, contiguous, rounded, flattened, with 
a few fairly prominent warts on the upper surface. Stamens 3; fila- 
ments connate to the top; anthers debiscing obliquely or nearly trans- 
versely. Femule flowers: Sepals larger than those of the male, 1-seriate, 
} lin. long, 3 lin. broad. Disk saucer-shaped, fleshy, slightly crenulate. 
Ovary globose, lobed, glabrous; styles stout, spreading, free almost to 
the base; stigmas swollen and slightly bifid. Capsule depressed-globose, 
slightly 3-lobed, smooth. Seeds with about 9 fine close lines on the 
back. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: between Okahandya and 
Swakopmund and at Wilhelmstal, 4000 ft., Dinter, 213! Okarumateru, Dinter, 
1376! Omburo, Dinter, 1395! 
42. P. suffrutescens, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 523. An under- 
shrub ; stems arising from a woody rhizome, about 6} in. long, deeply 
suleate or angular, glabrous ; flowering branchlets up to 3 in. long, com- 
pressed, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or linear-oblong, obtuse at both 
ends, rarely mucronate at the apex, }—? in. long, 1—3 lin. broad, thinly 
chartaceous, glabrous on both surtaces; lateral nerves 3-4 on each 
side, not visible above, slightly raised below ; veins not evident ; petiole 
short ; stipules lanceolate, entire. Flowers diccious (or at least the 
male and female on separate shoots), axillary, solitary, shortly pedi- 
cellate. Male flowers : Sepals 6, oblong-elliptic, 1-nerved. Disk-glands 6, 
fleshy, rounded, nearly smooth. Stamens 3; filaments connate their 
full Jength ; anthers subconnate, cells subparallel and dehiscing long)- 
tudinally. Female flowers: Sepals 6, in two distinct series, the outer 
3 ovate, subcordate at the base, 1 lin. long, % lin. broad, the inner 
3 oblong-oblanceolate, all obtuse and with a rather broad green midrib. 
Disk thick and fleshy, supporting the ovary, slightly wrinkled, glabrous. 
Ovary 6-lobed, smooth; styles connate at the base, suberect, shortly 
bilobed, lobes terete. Fruit not seen.—Pax in Engl. Pdf. Ost-Afr. 
C. 236. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ukamba; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2692! 
Uganda: Nandi, Scott-Elliot, 7047! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Urundi; hills near the’ Ruvava 
River, Scott-Elliot, 8158 | 
43. P. prostratus, Welw. ex Mill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 330, A 
perennial herb or small shrub; rootstock thick ; stems and branches 
numerous, prostrate or ascending, with the habit of some species of 
Polygonum ; flowering branches up to 13 in. long, subterete, glabrous, 
Leaves elliptic, produced into a sharp spinescent apex, slightly narrowed 
to the base, 2-3 lin. long, 1-14 lin. broad, rather thick and coriaceous, 
with reddish and slightly thickened margins, no evident midrib or 
nerves, glabrous on both surfaces ; petiole } lin. long, glabrous 5 stipules 
