736 CXXII, EUPHORBIACE& (HUTCHINSON). [| Phyllanthus. 
both ends, 2-4 lin. long, 14-24 lin. broad, coriaceous, densely covered 
on both surfaces with minute glands, glabrous, margins slightly 
recurved ; lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, thick and prominent on the 
lower surface, much branched; petiole short; stipules lanceolate with 
filiform points, 1 lin. long, reddish and somewhat membranous, margins 
serrate. Flowers diccious, males not known. Females solitary 
pedicel stout, 3 lin. long, slightly angular, glabrous. Sepals 5, broadly 
obovate, 1 lin. long, 2 lin. broad, rather thick and yellowish-green, 
without any distinct median nerve, margins membranous and trans- 
parent. Disk cupular, thin, faintly crenulate. Ovary slightly lobed, 
globose, smooth and glabrous; styles long, free, bilobed to about the 
middle, lobes linear, not swollen at the tips. Capsule subglobose, 
slightly lobed, 14 lin. in diam., rather fleshy. Mature seeds not seen. 
Mozamb. Distr. Nyasaland: Fwambo, near Lake Tanganyika, Carson! 
32. FLUGGEA, Willd. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 276. 
Flowers dicecious. Petals absent. Male flowers: Sepals 5, imbricate. 
Stamens 5, alternating with the disk.glands ; filaments free ; anthers 
introrse, erect, cells distinct, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary 
ovary large, deeply 2-3-partite, Female flowers: Calyx as in the male. 
Disk flat, annular, entire or nearly so. Ovary 3-celled; styles connate 
at the base or nearly absent, recurved or spreading, bifid; ovules 2 in 
each cell. Fruit slightly fleshy; pericarp thin. Seeds subtriquetrous, 
rounded on the back; testa thick and crustaceous; albumen scanty ; 
embryo incurved with broad and flat cotyledons.—Shrubs or trees. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire. Flowers small, in axillary fascicles, 
male often numerous, female few or subsolitary. 
About 10 species in the tropics generally. 
Leaves usually obovate and rounded, obtusely pointed or 
emarginate; fruits not or only very slightly lobed . lL. F. microcarpa. 
Leaves elliptic, acute or subacute at both ends; fruit oe 
trilobed 3 : ‘ : . 2. F. fagifolia. 
1, F. microcarpa, Blume, Bijdr. 580, A shrub or small tree about 
12 ft. high; branches and branchlets usually angular, glabrous. Leaves 
elliptic or obovate, obtusely pointed or the smaller ones emarginate, 
cuneate, subacute or obtuse at the base, up to 23 in. long and 1} in. broad, 
rather rigidly membranous, glabrous on both surfaces, often glaucous 
below ; lateral nerves 5-9 on each side, slightly prominent on the lower 
surface ; veins fine and close; petiole 14-3 lin. long, glabrous ; stipules 
lanceolate, margin slightly jagged. Flowers diccious. Male flowers 
numerous, in axillary fascicles: pedicel slender, 14-2 lin. long, glabrous. 
Sepals 5, unequal, the larger obovate, 1 lin. long and 3 lin. broad, the 
smaller oblong, 4 lin. long, }lin. broad, margins membranous and jagg 
or ciliate, otherwise glabrous. Disk-glands usually large and fleshy, 
somewhat angular, with 3 or 4 depressions or pits on the outside, glab- 
rous. Stamens 5; filaments longer than the rudimentary ovary ; anthers 
3 lin. long. Rudimentary ovary tripartite; segments free for about 
