Phyllanthus. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEA! (HUTCHINSON). 723 
Gapdia, Schimper, 814! near Guafta, Schimper, 1231! Begemeder, Schimper, 1374 ! 
Sokota, Rohifs 4 Stacker! Galla Highlands, Ellenbeck, 1931! Somaliland : 
Drake-Brockman, 421! 424! Ellenbeck, 937! Boran country, Lllenbeck, 2100! 
Sudan, Brown, 1592! 1693! Kordofan: various localities, Pfund, 150! Kotschy, 
30! 184! 389! British East Africa: various localities, Hildebrandt, 2535! 2693! 
Kibwesi, Scheffler, 56! Mount Maboko, Scott-Hiliot, 6562! Ruwenzori, Salt 
Lake, Scott-Elliot, 7935! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda, Welwitsch, 321! Gossweiler, 376! 
German South-west Africa: Okahandya, Dinter, 397! 834! Omatope, Schinz, 
892! Wilhelmsthal, Dinter, 1578! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Duga, Holst, 3194! 
Pangani, Stuhlmann, 94! Kilimanjaro, Johnston! Volkens, 2123! Portuguese 
East Africa: near the headwaters of the Quaqua River, Scott! opposite Sena, Kirk ! 
Peters; Lower Buzi River, Swynnerton, 1521! British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; 
banks of the River Shire, Scott! Nyika platean, McClounie, 180! Rhodesia ; 
Mazoe, Eyles, 245! near Chirinda, Swynnerton, 333! 
Common in tropical and extra-tropical regions of the Old World. 
Four varieties were distinguished by Mueller chiefly on account of the size and 
form of the leaves, but as they gradually pass into one another I have not been able 
to retain them. 
46. P. Dusenii, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 314. Stems 
about 1 ft. high, arising from a perennial rootstock, slightly flexuous, 
puberulous ; internodes 2-3 lin. long; flowering branchlets crowded 
towards the top of each stem, spreading, up to 5 in. long, con- 
Spicuously winged, minutely puberulous. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 
minutely mucronate, rounded or subcuneate at the base, 3—-? in. long, 
14-3 lin. broad, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves 
7-9 on each side, curved and looped near the margin, prominent on the 
lower surface; petiole rather thick, 4 lin. long, glabrous; stipules 
elongate-lanceolate, very acute, 1} lin. long, glabrous. Flowers mone- 
ious, solitary, males occupying the greater portion of the branchlet, 
about one female in the axil of the uppermost leaf; pedicel short, 
of the female slightly winged. Male flowers: Sepals 6, oblanceo- 
late-spathulate, 1-nerved, margins membranous, about 1} lin. long. 
Disk-glands 6, small, prominently warted. Stamens 3; filaments 
united to the top into a long slender column; anthers free from each 
other, cells parallel and contiguous, dehiscing longitudinally. Female 
flowers: Sepals as in the male, but longer, 13 lin. long, 4-4 lin. broad. 
Disk small, annular, slightly undulate, glabrous. Ovary subglobose, 
smooth, slightly stipitate; styles erect, connate towards the base, bifid 
or vee bilobed, the divisions not swollen at the apex. Ripe capsule 
not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: without precise locality, Dusén, 296! 
47. P. welwitschianus, Miill. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 330, A 
small shrub about 14-3 ft. high; stems several, erect, arising from a 
woody many-headed rootstock, purple, slightly sulcate, glabrous. Leaves 
oblong-elliptic or ovate-elliptic, rounded and mucronate at the apex, 
Sometimes slightly emarginate, cordate at the base, $-1} in. long, 5-10 
