728 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). | Phyllanthus, 
Var. Braunii, Hutchinson. Flowers much smaller than those of the type— 
P. Braunii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 525. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: cultivated at the Berlin Botanic Garden from 
seeds sent by Braun! 
Pax described in De Wild. & Durand’s Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 48, a variety 
micranthus with small tlowers, of which I have not seen a specimen, It may be 
identical with var. Braunit. 
55. P. leucanthus, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 524. An annual 
glabrous herb; stem slightly angular or very narrowly winged, smooth ; 
flowering branchlets spreading, up to 5 in. long, narrowly winged, wings 
very minutely toothed or asperulate. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 
obtusely pointed, narrowed or rounded at the base, 3-1 in. long, $-$ in. 
broad, thinly membranous, glaucous on the lower side; lateral nerves 
about 9 on each side, spreading, looped near the margin, slightly prom!- 
nent on the lower surface ; petiole $ lin. long; stipules subulate or subu- 
late-lanceolate, a little longer than the petiole. Flowers monecious, 
males smal] and 2 or 3 together in the lower part of the branchlets, 
females larger and solitary, shortly pedicellate. Male flowers: Sepals 6, 
oblanceolate, } lin. long, narrowly 1-nerved, membranous. Disk-glands 6, 
small, slightly warted. Stamens 3; filaments connate for about three- 
quarters of their length, free at the top; anthers dehiscing longitudi- 
nally. Female flowers: Sepals 6, sub-1-seriate, obovate, 1} lin. long. 
Disk slightly 5-lobed, but not crenate, ovary shortly stipitate, subglobose, 
scarcely lobed, smooth; styles free to the base, linear, slender, spreading 
over the top of the ovary, bilobed, lobes not swollen at the tips. Capsule 
hardly lobed, 14 lin. in diam. Seeds marked with 6 lines on the back. 
—Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236. 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: without precise locality, Quartin-Dillon § Petit! 
Schimper, 659 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: Kantu, Kassner, 2405! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa : banks of the Wala River near Tabora, 
Bohm, 83! Usambara; Bumbuli, Meinhof, 71! Kwai, Zick, 159! British Central 
Africa: Nyasaland; Masuku Plateau, 6500-7000 ft., Whyte! Manganja Hills, 
Waller ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 879! 
56. P. Rivee, Paw in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 182. Stems woody, 
quadrangular, puberulous between the angles; flowering branchlets 
spreading, up to 34 in. long, angular, glabrescent or minutely puberu- 
lous. Leaves elliptic, obtuse at both ends, 24-3 lin. long, 1}-2 lin. 
broad, somewhat membranous, glabrescent; lateral nerves about 4 on 
each side, a little prominent below ; petiole about $ lin. long; stipules 
subulate-lanceolate, about twice the length of the petiole. dub 
moneecious, males small, 2 or 3 together in the axils of the loves 
leaves, females much larger, solitary, and more numerous than the 
males; pedicel short. Male flowers: Sepals 6, in 2 series, the outer 
ovate, ? lin. long, } lin. broad, the inner narrower, all 1-nerved, mem- 
branous and white. Disk-glands 6, flat, rounded, conspicuously a. d . 
Stamens 3 ; filaments connate to the top; anthers dehiscing at the si = 
Female flowers: Sepals 6, in 2 distinct series, the outer broadly ovate, 
