738 CXXII. EUPHORBIACEZ (HUTCHINSON). | Fluggea. 
Leaves elliptic, acute or subacute at both ends, 14~3 in. long, 1-2 in, 
broad, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 10-12 on 
each side, spreading, branched and becoming fainter towards the margin, 
distinct on both surfaces, more prominent on the lower ; tertiary nerves 
subparallel, very few; veins close, scarcely raised ; petiole 24-34 lin. 
long, glabrous; stipules deciduous. Male and female flowers not 
known. Capsule slightly trilobed, depressed, + in. in diam,, lobes 
rounded, reticulate, glabrous. Seeds with the two sides flattened, 
concave and wrinkled or reticulate on the back, about 2 lin. long. 
Mozamb. Distr. German Fast Africa: Kilimanjaro; Himo River, at 3300 ft., 
Volkens ; Amani, Warnecke, 352! and without precise locality, Kersting, 98! 1737! 
Only fruiting specimens of F. fagifolia are known, and I am very doubtful if it 
is a true Fluggea. It seems closely allied to Phyllanthus discoideus, Miill. Arg., 
with which it is probably congeneric. 
33. CLUYTIANDRA, Miill. Arg.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
PE AW 262, 
Flowers monecious. Petals absent. Male flowers: Sepals 5, imbri- 
cate. Disk saucer-shaped, undulately lobed, lobes opposite the sepals. 
Stamens 5; filaments connate in their lower half, free above; anther- 
cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary at the 
apex of the staminal column, tripartite or subentire. Female flowers: 
Calyx and disc as in the male. Ovary 3-celled ; styles short, spreading 
or suberect, bifid or bipartite ; ovules 2 in each cell. Capsule dehiscing 
into 2-valved cocci. Seeds with fleshy albumen, without a strophiole; 
cotyledons flat and broad.—Shrubs or undershrubs. Leaves alternate, 
thin, entire, penninerved. Flowers in axillary fascicles, males small, 
shortly pedicellate, females often solitary ; pedicel elongating in fruit. 
Species 3, confined to Tropical Africa and South-east Arabia. 
Stems arising from a many-headed rhizome; rudimentary 
ovary tripartite : : 
Shrubs ; rudimentary ovary subentire. 
Flowering branchlets more or less sharply angular or ; 
asperulate ; 3 . 2. C. somalensis- 
Flowering branchlets terete, glabrous or minutely : 
puberulous : j z . 3. C. fruticans. 
1. C. trichopoda. 
1. C. trichopoda, Miill. Arg. in Journ. Bot, 1864, 328. Stems 
numerous, up to 15 in. high, arising from a many-headed rhizome 
(Welwitsch), glabrous. Leaves ovate or rounded-ovate, subacute or 
slightly mucronate, rounded at the base, $-1} in. long, }-j in. prone 
membranous, glabrous and somewhat glaucous on both surfaces ; late 
nerves 4-5 on each side, fairly distinct; petiole 14 lin. long, slender, 
glabrous ; stipules small, ovate-triangular, slightly toothed, membranous. 
Male flowers: pedicel short, slender. Sepals ovate-orbicular, ge¥" 
branous, glabrous. Disk membranous. Female flowers: Sepals an 
disk as in the male. Ovary glabrous ; styles suberect ; stigmas _ 
Capsule depressed-globose. Seeds coarsely wrinkled ; fruiting pedice 
