Phyllanthus. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACER (HUTCHINSON), 721 
Janceolate, acuminate, acute, ? lin. long, membranous. Flowers mone- 
cious, males axillary and geminate in the lower part of the branches, 
females solitary towards the apex, fewer than the males. Male flowers: 
Sepals 6, sub-—1-seriate, subequal, oblong, obtuse, 1-nerved, 3 lin. long, 
§ lin. broad, membranous towards the margin. Disk-glands 6, orbi- 
éular, thin, smooth. Stamens 3; filaments connate to the top; anthers 
dehiscing extrorsely. Female flowers: Sepals as in the male, but in 
2 series, 3 outer, 3 inner. Disk annular, small, entire. Ovary globose, 
slightly lobed, glabrous; styles free to the base, erect, bifid; stigmas 
capitate, globose. Capsule depressed-globose, nearly 2 lin. in diam. ; 
seeds laterally compressed, convex on the back, ? lin. long, closely longi- 
tudinally striate with about 20 lines on the back.—Miill. Arg. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii, 361 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i.959; Pax in Baum, 
Kunene-Samb. Exped, 281. Diasperus prostratus, O. Kuntze, Rev. 
Gen. Pl. ii. 600. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Empalanea, in the Lopollo country, 
Welwitsch, 333! by the Longa River, above Minnesera, 4160 ft., Baum, 686! near 
the Mission Station, Massaca Luelai, Gossweiler, 2683! 2688! 
44. P. Urinaria, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 982. An annual about 
9-12 in. high; stem somewhat woody at the base, longitudinally 
Suleate, subterete, about 1 lin, in diam., glabrous ; flowering branchlets 
ascending, about 2 in. long, compressed and narrowly winged, wings 
asperulate or ciliolate. Leaves oblong, shortly pointed and minutely 
mucronate, rounded and slightly unequal-sided at the base, }-} in. 
long, 1-2 lin, broad, membranous, dark green above, glaucous below, 
glabrous on both surfaces, margins asperulate or minutely ciliolate ; 
lateral nerves about 5 on each side, slender, spreading, looped close 
to the margin, scarcely visible on the upper surface, more distinct on 
the lower ; petiole very short and compressed, glabrous; stipules broad 
and auriculate at the base, narrowed into a filiform point, about 3 lin, 
long. Flowers monecious, solitary and subsessile, males in the upper 
third, females in the lower two-thirds of the branchlets. Male 
flowers very small: Sepals 6, elliptic, subacute, glabrous. Disk-glands 
6, very small. Stamens 3; filaments connate, very short; anthers 
subparallel, connate, dehiscence longitudinal. Female flowers: Sepals 6, 
lin, long, l-nerved, margins membranous. Disk saucer-shaped, thin, 
frenulately lobed. Ovary depressed-globose, densely covered with 
conspicuous warts; persistent sepals reflexed; styles very short, 
Spreading, bifid. Seeds with about 10 prominent transverse ribs 
on the back.—Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 660; Miuill: Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 
364 ; Benth. FI. Hongk. 310, and FI]. Austral. vi. 102; Hook. f. FI. 
Brit: Ind. v. 293. P. leprocarpus, Wight, Ic. t. 1895, fig. 4. Diasperus 
Urinaria, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 601.—TZyeru-kirganeli, Rheede, 
Hort, Malab. x. t. 16. 
EES aera Sierra Leone: open places on augite rocks near Regent, 
A common tropical weed, but apparently very rare in Africa. 
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