510 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
Two species of Crozophora are mentioned by A. de Jussieu 
as Senegalese. 
1. Phyllanthus Niruri, Linn.—P. amarus, Schum. et Thonn. 
Beskr. p. 421 ?—As common in this as in other parts of Tro- 
pical Africa and Asia. 
2. Phyllanthus sp., possibly a large-leaved variety of P. Niruri. 
—St. Thomas, Don. 
The extensive genus Phyllanthus, as well as Glochidion and 
some other allied ones, are at present in such a state of confu- 
sion, and several of the common almost cosmopolite species 
so ill defined, that I do not venture to name as new any of the 
specimens before me; although there are some which I am 
unable absolutely to identify, as is the case with the present 
one. 
8. Phyllanthus piluliferus, Fenzl. Flora, 1844. p. 812.—P. li- 
noides, Hochst. Pl. Kotsch. Nub. exs. n. 303.—On_ the 
Quorra, at Patteh, Attah, and Stirling, Vogel, Ansell; Sene- 
gal and Nubia. l 
I am not aware that either of the above names are regularly 
published, but I can scarcely believe that a plant, apparently 
so common in Tropical Africa, should be yet undescribed. In 
many respects, Thonning’s description of his P. pentandrus 
agrees with it; but our plant is certainly an annual. 
4. Phyllanthus dioicus, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 416 ?— 
P. Reichenbachianus, Sieb. Pl. Seneg. exs.—Cape Coast and 
on the Quorra, Vogel; Senegal and Guinea. 
Most probably, on a revision of the genus, this plant would 
be placed in a distinet section or genus from the three pre- 
ceding. 
There is, besides, a species in the Senegambian collection 
with very singular, recurved, stipulary thorns ; and Schumacher 
and Thonning, besides those mentioned above, have described 
four others from Guinea: P. angulatus, P. capillaris, P. Thon- 
ningii and P. sublanatus. 
1. Glochidion sp.—Phyllanthus polyspermus, Schum. et Thonn. 
Beskr. p. 416.—On the Quorra, at Stirling, Vogel ; Guines. 
