734 CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). | Phyllanthus. 
filiform from a broader auriculate base, about 14 lin. long, subentire. 
Male flowers not known. Female flowers solitary or subsolitary : pedicel 
(supporting the fruit) 2 lin. long, thickened towards the apex, glabrous. 
Sepals 6, obovate, distinctly narrowed to the base, about 1 lin. long, 
prominently striate inside, glabrous. Disk saucer-shaped, margin undu- 
late, glabrous. Complete capsule not seen ; exocarp thin, conspicuously 
reticulate on the inside ; endocarp thicker, bony. Seeds 3-sided, convex 
on the back, 14 lin. long and broad, covered with numerous longitudinal 
rows of very small closely arranged wart-like protuberances.—P. petreus, 
Chevalier ex Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. Mém. viii. 58, partly. 
Upper Guinea. Togo, Kersting, 44! 
North Central. Eastern Shari region: Dar Banda; between the Kaga Dje 
and the Lower Bamingui, near the water, Chevalier, 6612! source of the Ndelli 
River, Chevalier, 6846! 
A specimen collected by Scott-Elliot (3961) on the upper part of Sugarloaf 
Mountain, Sierra Leone, is very probably this species, but as the material is rather 
incomplete I cannot be quite certain. 
Imperfectly known species. 
67. P. Gilletii, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 
266. A small shrub; branches woody, longitudinally striate, glabrous, 
more or less angular when young ; branchlets furnished at the base with 
numerous more or less scarious bracts, solitary or in fascicles, flexuous, 
usually not again branched, more or less villous, striate, polygonal, 
4-24 in. long, the flowering ones shorter than those bearing only leaves. 
Leaves very shortly petiolate, obovate, elliptic or nearly suborbicular, 
1-4 lin. long, 3-34 lin. broad, glabrous on both surfaces except for a few 
hairs on the lateral nerves on the lower side; lateral nerves few and 
inconspicuous ; stipules linear-lanceolate, 1 lin. long. Flowers mone- 
cious, solitary, males towards the base of the branchlets: pedicel slen- 
der, 4-3? lin. long. Sepals 6, white when dry, 1} lin. long. Stamens 
3; filaments connate. Female pedicel 2 lin. long, angular when dry. 
Sepals 6, 2-seriate, 3 inner smaller than the outer, up to 2 lin. long- 
Ovary glabrous; styles free, with enlarged stigmas. Capsule about 
1} lin. high. Seeds strongly striate, ? lin. long. 
me Guinea. Lower Congo: Banana district ; Moanda, Gillet, 3208; 
68. P. meeroensis, De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Conger 
273, t. 64. Stems from a rhizome, glabrous. Leaves sessile or 5 
sessile, oblong-lanceolate, sharply mucronate, narrowed to the base, oa 
lin. long, 1-24 lin. broad, greyish on both surfaces when dry; stapules 
ovate-lanceolate, more or less cordate at the base, acute, 3-14 lin. long- 
Male flowers not seen. Female flowers solitary: pedicel glabrous, 
about 2$lin. long. Sepals 5, ovate, obtuse, 14 lin. long, glabrous. sie 
glabrous, supported on a small disk ; styles 3, divergent, shortly 2-lob re 
Capsule subglobose, about 2} lin, indiam, Seeds glabrous, brown, stra 
on the back. 
