Cluytiandra. | CXXII. EUPHORBIACEX (HUTCHINSON). 739 
1 in. long, very slender, glabrous.—Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr, xv. ii. 225; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 956. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto; dry mountain slopes between 
Calolo and Muria, Welwitsch, 327! Loanda district, Gossweiler, 377 ! 
2. C. somalensis, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 277, partly. A 
small undershrub ; branches subterete or slightly angular ; flowering 
branchlets more or less sharply angular, asperulate or nearly glabrous. 
Leaves as in (. trichopoda. Male flowers: Sepals 5, broadly obovate, 
entire, membranous, % lin. long, } lin. broad, glabrous. Disk saucer- 
shaped, undulately 5-lobed, membranous, glabrous. Stamens connate 
around an entire fleshy rudimentary ovary. Female flowers: Sepals 
ovate-lanceolate, slightly acuminate, subacute, 1 lin. long. Disk as in 
the male. Ovary globose, smooth ; styles suberect, with globose stigmas. 
Seeds deeply pitted.— Phyllanthus capillariformis, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. 
xv. 523, and in Engl. Pil. Ost-Afr. C. 236. 
Wile Land. Somaliland: Dagaga, Hllenbeck, 1026! British East Africa : 
Ukamba ; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2696! east side of Albert Edward Nyanza, Scott- 
Elliot, 8063 ! 
Occurs also in South-east Arabia. 
3. C. fruticans, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 276. A small much- 
branched shrub ; older branches covered with a grey bark, which peels 
off; flowering branchlets up to 3 in. long, sharply angular, rounded or 
slightly angular, glabrous or minutely asperulate. Leaves ovate or 
ovate-elliptic, sometimes slightly mucronate, rounded at the base, 
3-1} in. long, 34-7 lin. broad, very thin and flaccid, glabrous on both 
surfaces, slightly glaucous below; lateral nerves 4-6 on each side, 
arcuate, distinct below ; veins invisible ; petiole slender, 1-2 lin. long, 
glabrous ; stipules subulate, subentire. Male flowers: pedicel about 
14 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 5, ovate, subacute. Disk slightly 5-lobed, 
thin, saucer-shaped. Stamens 5; filaments connate in their lower half, 
supporting a fleshy subentire rudimentary ovary. Female flowers as in 
C. somalensis.—C. Engleri, Pax, |.c. xxxiv. 368. 
Mozamb. Distr. German East Africa: Tanga, Holst, 2108! Derema, 
Scheffler, 139! between Muhesa and Lungusa, Engler, 353 ! 
Pax stated in his description of C. Englert that no male flowers were present ; 
on the type specimen, however, I found about three very small ones. I am unable 
to separate it from C. fruticans. 
34, ZIMMERMANNIA, Pax in Engl. Jahrb, xlv. 235. 
Flowers monecious. Petals absent. Male flowers: Sepals 5, imbri- 
cate. Disk flat, very slightly 5-lobed, lobes alternate with the sepals. 
tamens 5; filaments free, inserted around the base of a. small 
rudimentary ovary; anther-cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. 
Rudimentary ovary small, slightly trilobed. Female flowers: Calyx 
and disk as in the male, but larger. Ovary 3-celled ; styles ascending, 
entire, swollen at the. apex; ovules 2 in each ovary-cell. Capsule not 
