Phyllantlms^ EUPIIORBIACE^ (Hutchinson). 393 



often solitary or subsolitary ; pedicels very slender, up to J in. 

 '^^§5 glabrous ; male flowers : sepals 5, broadly obovate, i lin. long, 

 f liu. broad ; disc of 5 obovate truncate fleshy glands alternating 

 with the sepals ; stamens 5, free ; anthers rounded, dehiscing at 

 the side ; female flowers : sepals 4-5 (usually 5), ovate-elliptic, 

 obtuse at both ends^ J lin. long^ ^ lin. broad, entire, membranous, 

 with a conspicuous greenish-yellow midrib ; disc saucer-shaped, 

 entire, glabrous ; ovary globose, glabrous ; styles 3, free, slender, 

 bipartite nearly to the base, spreading or reflexed ; capsule depressed- 

 globose, 1 lin. in diam., smooth; seeds convex on the back, testa 

 brown, minutely and closely pitted. Willd. Sp. PL iv. 584; MulL 

 Arg. in Linnsea, xxxii, 8, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 337 ; Pax hi 

 Engl PJI, Ost-Afr, C. 236; Hutckmson in^Dyer, FL Trop. Afr. vi. i. 

 710. Menarda nummular if* dia, BailL Etude Gen. Eupliorh, 609. 

 Anisonema midtijloriim, Thomson in SpeJcey Nile Journ. App, 647, not 



of Wiglit, JDia.^pcrus nummular iwf alius. 0, Kuntze^ Bei\ Gen. PL ii. 



GOO, 



Kalakart Region: Tratisvaal ; Houtbosh, Hehmann, 5920! near Lydeuburg. 

 Wilms, 1312! SchUchter, 3952! Crocodile River, Wilms, 1313 I Tzaueeu Estate, 

 Zoutpansberg, Pole Evans, 4i)18 ! Mac JMac Creek, Miidd ! 



Eastern Region : Natal ; near Durban, Wood, 270 ! near Pietermaritzburg, 

 Wilms, 2211 \ 



» Occurs also in Eastern Tropical Africa and in Madagascar. 



8- P. pentandrus (Schumach. ife Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 419); a 

 mucli-branched herb, up to 18 in, high; stem woody, subterete, 

 glabrous ; flowering branchlets very slender, more or less flexuous, 

 glabrous or very minutely and sparingly asperulate ; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, subacute, obtuse at the base, up to 

 I in. long and \ in. broad, thin, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral 

 nerves about 5 on each side, slightly prominent below; petiole 

 about 1 lin. long, glabrous; stipules lanceolate, tapered to a fine 

 point, i- lin. long, glabrous ; flowers monoecious, males 2-3 together 

 in the axils of the lower leaves, females solitary in the upper leaf- 

 axils; pedicel slender, short, glabrous; male flowers: sepals 5, 

 ovate or elliptic, subacute, small, broadly 1-nerved, margin 

 membranous, glabrous ; disc-glands 5, flat, smooth and thin ; 

 stamens 5 ; filaments free ; anthers dehiscing at the side ; female 

 flowers: sepals as in the male; disc flat, entire, glabrous; ovary 

 lobed, minutely beaded ; styles spreading horizontally, very short, 

 b^fid; capsule depressed-globose, about 1 lin. in diam., scarcely 

 lobedj seeds marked with 5-6 longitudinal lines of dots on the 



l>ack. MiiU 

 Cat, Afr. PL 



Pji. Od-Af-i 



Wild, 'jEtades FL Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 275; Kntchinson in 

 %er, FL Trap, Afr. vi. i. 710. P. piluUferus, Fenzl in Flora, 

 1844, 312, name only ; Bentli. in HooJc. Niger Flora, 510. P. Itnoides, 

 Sochst. ex BailL Adansonia, i. 84, name only, P. linifolius, Vald ex 

 Padl. /.c, name only. P. deflexus, Klotzsch in Peters, Beise Mossamh, 





