722 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON). | Phyllanthus, 
45. P. maderaspatensis, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 982. A woody 
undershrub, very variable in habit; flowering branchlets sharply 
angular, almost winged or variously compressed, glabrous or minutely 
asperulate. Leaves linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, variable in size, 
up to 14 in. long and § in. broad, rather rigidly membranous or thinly 
chartaceous, glabrous or slightly asperulate; lateral nerves about 7 on 
each side, usually prominent below; petiole short, glabrous; stipules 
lanceolate, acuminate, broad and auriculate at the base, nearly 14 lin, 
long, ? lin. broad at the base, membranous and often purplish, glabrous. 
Male and female flowers sometimes together in the leaf-axils, or the 
females more often solitary, much larger than the males; pedicel 
about 1lin. long. Male flowers: Sepals 6, oblong-lanceolate, 3 lin. long, 
very thin and membranous, glabrous. Disk-glands 6, very thin and 
smooth, flat. Stamens 3; filaments connate; anthers dehiscing longi- 
tudinally. Female flowers: Sepals 6, 2-seriate, 3 outer ovate-elliptic or 
rounded, slightly apiculate, 1 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, 
3 inner slightly narrower, with a narrow membranous margin. Disk of 
6 separate flat thin glands. Ovary lobed; styles 3, distinct, suberect, 
thick, bifid. Capsule depressed-globose, 14 lin. in diam., 3-lobed, 
smooth. Seeds trigonous, convex on the back, 3 lin. long and broad, 
and marked with 9-10 tine lines of dots on the back.—Willd. Sp. Pl. 
iv. 575; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 654; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 180; Wight, 
Ie. t. 1895, fig. 83; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Pl. 233; Benth, Fi. Hongk. 
311, and Fl. Austral. vi. 103; Miill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxii. 19, and in 
DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 362; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 37; Oliv. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 349; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 292; 
Watt, Dict. Econ. Prod. India, vi. i. 221; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. 
Genova, 1892, 360; Pax in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 282, and 
in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236; Trim. Handb. FI. Ceylon, iv. 20; 
Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 304; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 
Pl. Welw. i. 959; Prain, Bengal PI. 935; Cooke, Fl. Bombay, 11. 586 ; 
8. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 192. P. andrachnoides, Willd. Sp- 
Pl. iv. 575. P. cuneatus, Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Bot. Berol. Suppl. 69- 
P. Thonningit, Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 418. P. javameus, 
Poir ex Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 21. P. gracilis, Roxb. FI. Ind. in. 654. 
P. obcordatus, Willd. ex Roxb. lc. 656. P. longifolius, Sond. in 
Linnea, xxiii. 135, not of Lam. P. venosus, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. 
Fl. Abyss. ii, 254; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 37. P. arabicus, 
Hochst. ex Baill. Adansonia, i. 86. P. vaccinioides, Klotzsch in Peters, 
Reise Mossamb. Bot. 105, not of Sond. Diasperus maderaspatensis, 
O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 600. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Christiansborg, Thonning ! 
DLedermann, 4440! : 
North Central. Bagirmi: north of Dar-el-Hadjer and Dagana, Chevalier, 
9867! 
Nile Land. Nubia: between Suakin and Berber, Schweinfurth, 303! ail 
region, Bent ! and without precise locality, Hochstetter! Eritrea: Keren, Stew orig 
549! Togodele, Ehrenberg! Habab, Hildebrandt, 612! Galabat, Sohwcin/wrs 
910! 912! 913! 915! Abyssinia: Hamedo Plain, Schimper, 191! 199! ne 
Cameroons: Duli, 
