390 EUPHOEBiACEi^ (Hutchinson). [^Phijllanthus. 



dia3cious; males fasciculate at the ends of the shoots; pedicels 1.^- 

 lin. long, slightly thickened towards the apex, glabrous ; sepals 4, 

 obovate, rounded at the apex, f lin. long, -| lin. broad, glabrous ; 

 disc-glands small, thin, rounded, smooth ; stamens 4 ; filaments free, 

 about half the length of the anthers, the latter ellipsoid, h lin. long, 

 dehiscing at the side ; female flowers apparently subsolitary towards 

 the base of the young shoots ; pedicels 4|- lin. long in the fruiting 

 stage, glabrous; sepals 4, broadly ovate, obtuse, l^- hi^- long, 1 lin. 

 broad, submembranous, glabrous ; disc annular, small ; young fruits 

 trilobed, glabrous ; styles connate in their lower half, the free part 

 abruptly recurved and bilobed to near the base. 



Eastern Bkgion : Delagoa Bay ; Lorenzo Marques, 150 ft., SchlecUer, 1159S ! 

 11634 ! 



3. P. verrucosus (Thunb. Prodr. 24) ; a much-branched shrub, 

 4-8 ft. high ; branches straight, covered with a grey bark, verrucose 

 with conspicuous lenticels ; lateral twigs increasing in length 

 towards the base of each mainshoot ; flowering branchlets very much 

 abbreviated, each with a cluster of 3-5 leaves ; leaves obovate or 

 obovate-elliptic, rounded and often slightly retuse at the apex, 

 obtuse or subcuneate at the base, 2-6 lin. long, 1^4 lin. broad, 

 thinly chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, often somewhat 

 glaucous below, distinctly and rather closely reticulate below ; 

 petiole |-1 lin. long, glabrous j stipules small, laciniate, membranous, 

 puberulous; flowers monoecious, one female and several males in 

 each cluster ; male pedicels capillary, up to 3 lin, long, glabrous ; 

 sepals usually 6, rarely 5 or 4, obovate, about | lin. long, membranous, 

 labrous ; disc-glands contiguous, fleshy, spread over the top of the 

 torus ; stamens usually 6 ; filaments free, inserted between the disc- 

 glands ; anthers rounded, about J- lin. broad ; female pedicels stouter 

 than those of the male, about 1 in, lonjr, often becoming: recurved, 

 glabrous or slightly hairy towards the apex; sepals as in the male 

 but larger ; disc thick and fleshy, slightly toothed, glabrous ; ovary 

 smooth ; stigmas large and fleshy, reflexed, bilobed ; capsule pro- 

 minently reticulate ; seeds smooth. Thfftfh. FL Cap, ed. ScJiult, 500 ; 

 Dregcy Zwei Pji, Docuhicnte, 136. Miill. Arg. in Lhuma, yix-^iii. 5, 

 and in DC, Prodr. xv. ii. 333. Pleiostcmon verrucosiim, Sond. in 

 Linnsea, xxiii. 136. Securinega verrucosus^ Sim, For. Fl, Cape Col. 

 325, /. xvx.fig, V. 



South Africa : without precise locality, Tlarrnj I Echlon & Zeyher, 29 ; 

 Krauss, 



Coast Region ; Humauddorp Div. ; Gamtoos River, Tkunhevg ! Uitenhage 

 Div. ; Elands River, Zeyher ! near Addo, Zetjlier, 857 ! 3820 ! Pappe 1 between 

 Galgebosch and Melk River, Bvrchell^ 4771 ! near Uitenhage, Burchell, 4451 ! 

 Alexander (Prior) \ Pcntherl ScJdechter, 2533! Zuurber^ Range, Drcf/ccil Drege, 

 2375 \ Batkurst Div. ; Trapps Valley, Da///, 620 ! GlenfilUng, Drege ! Albany Div. ; 

 Blue Krantz, Burcliell, ^jQZO \ near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 510! Schoidand, 

 597 ! Howisons Poort, Iluttmi ! Karega River, Ecklon 6: Zeyher, 9 ! Fish River 

 Hill, Burke ! Fort Beaufort Div. ; Konap, Baur, 1080 ! East London Div. ; near 

 mouth of Kefani River, Galpin, 5806 ! Komgha Div. ; near Komgha, FlanagctUy 

 404 ! Gwenkale, River, Flanagan ! British Kaffraria ; without precise locality, 

 Coopei', 312 ! 1004 ! 



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