Phyllanthus. | -CXXII. EUPHORBIACEX® (HUTCHINSON). 731 
Seeds laterally compressed, convex on the back, marked with several 
longitudinal lines. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 5500 ft., 
Volkens, 768 | 
61, P. Niruri, Zinn. Sp. Pl. ed.i. 981. An annual herb about | ft. 
high ; stem closely sulcate, smooth ; flowering branchlets up to 4 in. 
long, compressed or slightly winged, smooth or nearly so. Leaves 
oblong or oblong-elliptic, rounded at both ends, 3-6 lin. long, 14-3 lin. 
broad, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves about 5 
on each side, sometimes nearly invisible; petiole very short; stipules 
lanceolate - subulate, membranous, glabrous. Flowers monccious, 
solitary, males in the lower, females in the upper parts of the 
branchlets; female pedicel about ? lin. long when in fruit, glabrous. 
Male flowers: Sepals 6, small, 1-nerved with membranous margins. 
Disk-glands 6,small. Stamens 3; filaments connate. Female flowers : 
Sepals 6, larger than in the male. Disk thin and flat, about 10-toothed. 
Ovary subglobose, smooth ; styles very short, suberect, bifid. Capsule 
depressed -globose, more or less trilobed, about 1} lin. in diam. Seeds 
With about 6 lines on the back.—Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 583; Mill. Arg. in 
Linnea, xxxii, 43, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 406; Roxb. Fl. Ind, iii. 659 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vy. 298; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236, in 
Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 157, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 103; 
Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 37; Trim. Handb, Fl. Ceylon, iv. 23; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 960; De Wild. & Durand, Contr. FI. 
Congo, i, 48, and Relig. Dewevr. 204; De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 127, 
and Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 266; Rendle in Journ, Linn. 
Soc. Xxxvil. 210; Gibbs, lc. 469; Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. 
Mem. viii. 57, partly. Uvrinaria indica, Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 93, fig. 2. 
ymphanthus Niruri, Lour. Fl. Coch. 545. Diasperus Niruri, O. Kuntze, 
Rev. Gen. Pl. ii, 600.—Kirganeli, Rheede, Hort. Malab. x. t. 15. 
Upper Guinea. Thonning. Senegambia: Perrottet. Northern Nigeria: 
upe, a weed in cultivated ground, Barter, 825! 
North Central. Wadai: Koulfé, Chevalier, 8858 bis! 
Wile Land. Kordofan: Arashkol Mountain, Kotschy, 115! Ethiopia, 
Kotschy, 92 | Uganda: near Malema, Bagshawe, 351. 
Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese East Africa: near Shupanga, Kirk! British 
Central Africa: Nyasaland ; between Kondowe and Karonga, Whyte! Rhodesia; 
Matoppo Hills, Gibds, 314. 
A weed widely spread in the tropics, 
62. P. rotundifolius, Klein ex Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 584, An annual 
herb about 1 ft. high ; stems and branches usually angular and asperu- 
ate; flowering branchlets spreading or drooping, up to 3 in. long, 
4sperulate. Leaves rounded-obovate, cuneate or slightly rounded at the 
> 2-5 lin. long, 14—4 lin. broad, membranous or slightly chartaceous, 
glabrous on both surfaces ; petiole short, glabrous; stipules subulate- 
ceolate, $ lin: long. Flowers monecious, 2 or 3 males and 1 female 
together in each leaf-axil, shortly pedicellate. Male flowers: Sepals 6, 
