Pluggea. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEE (HUTCHINSON). 737 
two-thirds their length, terete, reflexed and often thickened in the upper 
part,asmall second lobe often developed at the bend, glabrous, Female 
flowers numerous. Calyx as in the male. Disk annular, glabrous. 
Ovary ovoid, glabrous; styles connate at the base, or rarely nearly 
absent, bilobed, lobes spreading, flattened or subterete. Fruits white, 
depressed-globose, about 2 lin. in diam. ; styles persistent. Seeds shining, 
with several longitudinal lines of pits on the back and sides.—Hook. f. 
F). Brit. Ind. v. 328; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw.i. 961; S. Moore in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 193. F. virosa, Baill. Etude Gén. Euphorb. 593. 
f. abyssinica, Baill. l.c. F'. angulata, Baill. Adansonia, i. 80. F. obovata, 
Baill. lc. ii. 41; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 235, and in Engl. Jahrb. 
Xxvili, 418, xxx. 338; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 299 ; 
De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 48, and Relig. Dewevr. 
205; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga, 79; Th. & Hél. Durand, Syll. FI. 
Congol. 483. F. obovata, var. luxurians, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 
lv. Mém. viii. 55. /. senensis, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 
106. Phyllanthus virosus, Roxb. ex Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 578. P. lucidus, 
Hort. ex Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Bot. Berol. 329. P. angulatus, 
Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 415. J’. dioicus, Schum. & Thonn. 
le. 416. P. polygamus, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii, 256. 
Xylophylla obovata, Willd. Enum. Pl. Hort. Bot. Berol. 329. Seewri- 
‘nega abyssinica, A. Rich. l.c.; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 38. 8. 
obovata, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 449; Benth. Fl. Austral. vi. 
115. Acidoton obovatus, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 592. 
_ Upper Guinea. Senegal, Sieber, 49! Leprieur! Perrottet, 750, 761. 
Sierra Leone: Scott-Elliot ! Gold Coast: Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 86! common 
on plains, Thonning ! Brown, 934! Johnson, 1092! Togo: near Lome, Warnecke, 
297! Lagos, Foster, 58! Millen, 80! Phillips, 5! Rowland! Irving, 183! 
Northern Nigeria: N upe, Barter, 1496! Katagum district, Dalziel, 207! Southern 
Nigeria ; Tiediana, Chevalier, 997! Cameroons: Sanaga, Zenker, 1454! 
North Central. Central Shari region: Koulfi, Chevalier, 8911! 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Bogos, Beccari, 113! Gallabat, Schweinfurth, 908! 
Abyssinia: various localities, Petit, 204! Schimper, 287! 877! 1698! Sudan: 
various localities, Muriel, 33! 82! Broun, 1081! 1685! Petherick! Schweinfurth, 
1094! Niamniam, Schweinfurth, 3220! 3705! Jur, Schweinfurth, 2383! Uganda: 
various localities, Dawe, 80! 748! Scott-Elliot, 7895! British East Africa: 
various localities, Scott-Elliot, 6731! Whyte! Hildebrandt, 12468 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Loanda; near Forte de Penedo, Welwitsch, 627! 
Gossweiler, 363! Bumbo; near the base of the Serra da Xella, Welwitsch, 337 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo: near Kabanga, Dewevre; near Lukafu, 
Verdick. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Kirk, 29! Last! Lyne, 30! 58! German East 
rica: various localities, Holst, 2020! Holtz, 396! Goetze, 131! 400! 650! 
Merker, 591! Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi, Kirk ! Menyharth, 8771 
d; various localities, Swynnerton, 1719! 1727! 1728! 1729! 1730! British 
pc Africa: Rhodesia; Livingstone, Rogers, 7243! Sabi River, Swynnerton, 
! 
ss 2. P. fagifolia, Pax in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 236. A tree 60-70 ft. 
gh; young branchlets somewhat angular or compressed, glabrous. 
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