Phyllantlius:] EUPhoiidiace.k (TTutchinson). 395 



broad, entire, rigidly chartaceous, glabrous and glaucous on both 

 surfaces ; lateral nerves 5-7 on each side, looped and branched 

 some distance from the margin, distinct below ; petiole very short, 

 ^ lin. long, glabrous ; stipules ovate or ovate-lanceolate, auricuLite 

 at the base, a little longer than the petiole, membranous, brown, 

 glabrous; floorers monoecious, the males solitarj^ towards the ends 

 of the shoots, the females solitary in the lower parts of the shoots ; 

 male pedicels very slender, nearly 2 lin. long, glabrous ; sepals 6, 

 unequal, oblong, obtuse, entire, | hn. long, | lin. broad; disc- 

 glands 6, large, flat, orbicular, peltately attached ; stamens 3 ; 

 filaments quite free; anthers dehiscing at tlie side; female pedicels 

 about 2 lin. long in fruit ; sepals larger than in the male ; disc 

 flat and annular, slightly lobecl, glabrous ; ovary G-lobed, glabrous ; 

 styles free, bilobed, lobes very slender; capsule depressed-globose, 

 3- or obscurely 6-lobed, l^— If ^i^- i^ diam., glabrous. MiilL Arg, 

 in JDO, Prodr. xv. ii. 393. P. rjJaiicoijlnjllus, var, major, Mull. Arrj. 

 in Flora, 1SG4, 514, and in DC, le. ; Pax in Engl PJl. Osf-Afr. 

 C. 236; Ratrltinson in Dt/er, FL Trop, Afr. vi. i. 713. 



^AR. )3, suborbicularis (Hutchinson) ; leaves suborbicular. 



Coast Region : Var. ^ : British Kaffraria : Kaffrarian Mountains, Mrs. Barher, 

 39! 



Kalahari IIegios : Orange River Colony, Cooper, 902 ; Transvaal ; Magalies- 

 berg. Zei/Ji€7\ 1509! Burke i near Pretoria, Scott Elliot, 1407! Rehmann, 4719! 

 Schkchtcr, 4789 ! 



Eastern Region: PondoIauJ; Bachmann, 811! Natal; Drakensberg, at 

 Ingaganrly, BcJunann, 7020 ! Inanda, Wood, 466 ! between Pinetown and 

 Umbilo, Hchmann, 8070 I Kotote River, Gen^ard& M'Ken, IQ \ near Camperdown, 

 Schlechter, 3283 ! and without precise locality, Sanderson, 447 ! Coajier, 3143 1 



11. P. maderaspatensis (Linn. Sp. PL ed. i, 982); a woody 



^ndershrub, very variable in habit; flowering branchlets sharply 

 angular, almost winged or variously compressed, glabrous or 

 niinutely asperulate ; leaves linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 

 variable in size, up to 1 J in. long and ^ in. broad, rather rigidly 

 membranous or thinly chartaceous, glabrous or slightly asperulate ; 

 lateral nerves about 7 on each side of the midrib, usually prominent 

 below ; petiole short, glabrous ; stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 

 hroad and auriculate at the base, nearly 1^ lin. long, | lin. broad 

 at the base, membranous, glabrous; flowers monoecious, the male 

 aud female often together in the leaf-axils, or more often the 

 females solitary, much larger than the males ; pedicels about 1 lin. 

 long ; male flowers : sepals 6, oblong-lanceolate, | lin. long, 

 membranous, glabrous ; disc-glands 6, thin and smooth, flat ; 

 stamens 3 ; filaments connate ; anthers dehiscing longitudinally ; 

 female flowers; sepals 6, 2-senate, 3 outer ovHfce-elliptic or rounded, 

 slightly apiculate, 1 lin. long, f lin. broad, coriaceous, glabrous, 

 3 inner slightly narrower, with narrow membranous margins ; disc 

 of 6 separate flat thin glands; ovary lobed; styles 3, distinct, 

 suberect, thick, bitid; capsule depressed-globose, IJ lin. in diam., 

 3-lobed, smooth ; seeds trigonous, convex on the back, f Hn. long 



\ 



i 



