Phyllanthue. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEA (HUTCHINSON). 733 
obovate-elliptic, thin, glabrous, Disk-glands large, fleshy, nearly con- 
tiguous, smooth. Stamens 2; filaments very slightly connate at the 
base ; anther-cells distinct, diverging from the apex. Female pedicel 
13-2 in. long, very slender, glabrous: Sepals 6, ovate, obtuse, 1} lin. 
long, 1 lin. broad, glabrous. Disk very thick; outer margin undulately 
lobed, glabrous. Ovary depressed-ovoid, smooth ; styles spreading over 
the top of the ovary, flattened, bilobed, $ lin. long, lobes linear, acute. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Bipinde, Zenker, 24004! 2998 ! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: near Libreville, Klaine, 1195! 
65. P. petrzeus, Chevalier ex Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. 
Mém, viii. 58, partly. A shrub 3-7 ft. high ; branches slightly sulcate, 
with a broad line of short crisped hairs up each side when young, at 
length nearly glabrous. Leaves elliptic, oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate, 
obtusely pointed, obtuse or subcuneate at the base, 14-4 in, long, 4-14 
in. broad, thinly chartaceous or membranous, glabrous on both surfaces, 
often glaucous below, margins recurved ; lateral nerves 9-10 on each 
side, looped some distance from the margin, prominent below; petiole 
1-1} lin. long, somewhat fleshy, glabrous; stipules subulate or filiform 
from a broader and auriculate base, brown, membranous, 1-2 lin. long, 
margins fimbriate or laciniate. Flowers diccious, axillary, males 
several in each fascicle with numerous membranous laciniate bracts at 
the base, females few or subsolitary. Male flowers: pedicel about 
2 lin. long, very slender, glabrous. Sepals 4, ovate-orbicular, nearly 
1 lin. broad, not membranous, glabrous on both surfaces. Disk-glands 4, 
rounded or subreniform, fleshy, very minutely pitted. Stamens 2 ; fila- 
ments united into a very slender column ; anther-cells quite separated, 
very small. Female flowers: Sepals 5-6, very broadly ovate, 1} lin. 
broad, coriaceous, glabrous. Disk saucer-shaped, fleshy, undulately 
lobed, glabrous. Ovary much depressed-globose, slightly trilobed, 
glabrous; styles spreading stellately over the top of the ovary, bilobed, 
lobes terete and not at all swollen at the tips. Capsule trilobed, 3 lin. 
m diam. Seeds 3-sided, convex on the back, 1 lin. long, 4 lin. broad, 
minutely and closely pitted. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Fouta Jallon; between the Santa River and 
Timbo, Chevalier, 12610! on the road to Kouria-Longuery, Caille, 14628! 14646! 
Kouria, Caille, 14991! by the Scarcies River at Wallia, Scott-Elliot, 4637 ! 
66. P. Beillei, Hutchinson. A shrub 3-7 ft. high; branches terete, 
with a membranous deciduous bark; flowering branchlets puberulous ; 
Internodes very close. ‘Leaves rather elongate-oblong or oblong-elliptic, 
rounded or truncate and sometimes slightly emarginate at the apex, 
never pointed, rounded at the base, $—-12 in. long, } to nearly 1 in. broad, 
membranous, glabrous on both surfaces, somewhat glaucous below, margin 
thickened and recurved ; lateral nerves 13-16 on each side, very slender, 
Spreading almost at right angles to the midrib,anastomosing and gradually 
ading near the margin, very slightly raised on the lower surfaces ; 
transverse nerves oblique and rather close, distinct below; petiole }-] 
lin. long, slightly wrinkled, not hairy; stipules subulate or almost 
