732 CXXII, EUPHORBIACE& (HUTCHINSON). —[ Phyllanthus, 
l-nerved, membranous. Disk-glands 6, slightly wrinkled or warted. 
Stamens 3; filaments connate to near the top; anthers dehiscing at the 
side. Female flowers: Sepals larger than those of the male, ovate, with a 
broad midrib. Disk crenulate, small. Ovary depressed-globose, glabrous ; 
styles distinct, spreading, bifid. Seeds marked with about 7 longitu- 
dinal lines on the back.—Miill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxii. 43, and in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 405, excl. var. lewcocalyx, Miill. Arg.; Pax in Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. C. 236; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 303, and 
in Héhnel, Disc. Lakes Rudolf and Stephanie, ed. Engl. ii. 355; 
Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Genova, 1892, 360. P., Niruri, Wall. Cat. 
7895a, partly, not of Linn. P. scabrellus, Webb ex Hook. Niger Flora, 
175; J. A. Schmidt, Beitr. Flora Cap. Verd, Ins. 309.  Diasperus 
rotundifolius, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 600. 
Nile Land. Nubia: coast region, Bent! Eritrea: Mount Bosco, near 
Saati, Schweinfurth, 568! Somaliland: Lort-Phillips ! Cole! Drake-Brockman, 
178! 
Occurs also in Cape Verde Islands, Arabia, and India, 
63. P. parvus, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1911, 316. A small 
annual about 5 in. high ; stem slender, terete, reddish, glabrous ; flower- 
ing branchlets up to 14 in. long, subterete, glabrous. Leaves linear, sub- 
acute, 4-5 lin. long, 3-1} lin. broad, membranous, green above, light 
reddish-green below, margins recurved and reddish ; petiole very short ; 
Stipules subulate or almost filiform, } lin. long, entire. Flowers 
moneecious, axillary, females solitary in the upper two-thirds of the 
branchlets, males 2-3 together in the lower third ; pedicel short. Male 
flowers very small: Sepals 5, obovate, entire, glabrous. Disk-glands d; 
small, rounded, nearly smooth. Stamens 2; filaments connate to the 
apex; anthers dehiscing at the side. Female flowers: Sepals 5, m 4 
single series, oblanceolate, acute, about 2 lin. long, with a broad green 
midrib, margins membranous and serrulate, glabrous. Disk saucer 
shaped, thin, slightly undulately lobed, glabrous. Ovary subglobose, 
slightly lobed, smooth; styles short, spreading in a stellate manner 
over the top of the ovary, bifid; stigmas not swollen. Capsule 
depressed-globose, 1 lin. in diam. Seeds smooth on the back. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: between Lakes Tanganyika and 
Rukwa, at about 6000 ft., Nutt ! 
64. P. diandrus, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 276. A shrub about 
10 ft. high; young branchlets narrowly winged, glabrous. Leaves 
oblong or elliptic-oblong, caudate-acuminate, shortly cuneate at eves 
base, 2-5 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, entire, rather rigidly and — y 
chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 6-7 on pene bate 
prominent on both surfaces, especially below, strongly looped well whe n 
the margin, forming a wavy intramarginal nerve; veins very ows 
distinct below ; petiole about 1 lin. long, wrinkled ; stipules triangwe 
acute, auriculate at the base, 3 lin. long and broad, glabrous. Sa 
dicecious, males numerous in each fascicle, females solitary n each 6, 
axil, Male pedicel slender, up to 2 lin. long, glabrous: Sepals 
