730 CXX1I, EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). | Phyllanthus. 
. Wile Land. British East Africa: Eldama Ravine, 7000-7500 ft., Whyte! 
Mau Plateau, Baker, 42! 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Usambara; Kwai, Hick, 141! and 
without precise locality, Fischer, 24! 
59. P. mannianus, Jill. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 514. Herbaceous, 
about 4 ft. high; stems sharply angular or slightly winged; branches 
spreading, slender, sharply angled, glabrous. Leaves obovate or obovate- 
elliptic, rounded to an acute point at the apex, subacute at the base, 
4—6 lin. long, 24-3 lin. broad, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces; 
lateral nerves about 7 on each side, slightly impressed on both surfaces ; 
veins lax and indistinct; petiole about } lin. long, glabrous; stipules 
conspicuous, subulate-lanceolate, acute, 14 lin. long, somewhat mem- 
branous and purplish, glabrous. Flowers monecious. Male flowers 
1-3 in each leaf-axil; pedicel slender, about 1 lin. long, glabrous. 
Sepals 6, joined at the base, 1-seriate, subequal, oblong, obtuse, 1 lin. 
long, $ lin. broad, membranous, 1-nerved, glabrous. Disk-glands 6, 
large, flat, covered with several wart-like protuberances, } lin. in diam. 
Stamens 3; filaments united to the top; anthers dehiscing obliquely. 
Female flowers the same size as the male; pedicel much thickened 
towards the apex. Sepals in 2 series, 3 outer ovate-elliptic, 6 inner 
slightly narrower, otherwise as in the male. Disk annular, only very 
slightly crenulate, glabrous. Ovary subglobose, lobed, glabrous ; styles 
thick, free to the base, bilobed for about one-third their length, lobes 
terete, recurved, glabrous. Seeds subtriquetrous, convex on the back, 
? lin. long, marked with close longitudinal lines, about 7 of them on the 
outer convex side.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 365, Diasperus 
mannianus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 600. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon Mountain, 5000-8000 ft., Mann, 
1231! 1998! Johnston, 69! and without precise locality, Dusén, 421! 
60. P. Volkensii, Hngl. Pl. Ost-Afr. C. 236. Ashrub; flowering 
branchlets up to 23 in. long, sharply angular, glabrous, purplish. 
Leaves oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate, mucronate, slightly narrowed to 
the base, 3-5 lin. long, 1-24 lin. broad, thinly chartaceous, glabrous on 
both surfaces ; lateral nerves very faint, about 4 on each side; petiole 
very short ; stipules purple, lanceolate, acuminate, 1 lin. long, glabrous. 
Flowers monecicus, Male flowers few in the axils of the lower leaves; 
pedicel rather slender, glabrous. Sepals 6, oblong-obovate, rounded at 
the apex, 1} lin. long, } lin. broad, 1-nerved, membranous, Saunt 
Disk-glands 6, very large, thick and flattened, thickly covered with 
prominent wart-like protuberances. Stamens 3; filaments conn) 
anthers dehiscing at-the side. Female flowers solitary in the axils 0 
the upper leaves; pedicel much thickened towards the base of at 
flower, 1 lin. long, glabrous, Sepals 6, larger than in the male. Dis 
flat, rounded, crenate, glabrous. Ovary deeply trilobed, lobes sen 
slightly bilobed, glabrous; styles free to the base, slender, bilobeds 
stigmas subglobose.. Capsule deeply trilobed, about 1. lin. in, diam. 
