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400 EUPHORBiACEiE (Hutclunson). [PIiT/Ilantlms. 



male flowers : sepals 6, small, l-nerved, with membranous margins; 

 disc-glands 6, small ; stamens 3 ; filaments connate ; female flowers : 

 sepals 6, larger than in the male; disc thin and flat, about 10- 

 toothed ; ovary subglobose, smooth ; styles very shoi't, suberect, 

 bifid ; capsule depressed-globose, more or less trilobed, about 1 ^ lin, 

 in diam. ; seeds with about 6 longitudinal lines on the back. 

 WilhL Sp, PL iv. 583 ; MiilL Arg, in Linnsea, xxxii, 43, and in DC- 

 Pro(h\ XV. ii. 40G ; Eoxb. FL Lid. ed. Carey & J, Boxh, iii. 659 ; 

 Hool.f, Fl Brit. Lid. V. 298 ; Pax in Engl Pfl, Ost-Afr. G. 236, in 

 BoJei. Soc. Brot x. 157, and in Bull. Soc, Bot, Beig, xxxvii. 103; 

 SrJmeinf. Beiir, Fl Aetlilop. 37 ; Trim, Sandb, Fl Ceylon, iv. 23 ; 

 Iliern in Cal Afr, PI Weho. i. 960 ; De Wihl d' Durand, Contr. 



Fl. Congo, I 48, and Reliq. Bewevr. 204 ; Be Wihl Miss. E. Laurent^ 



127, and Etudes Fl Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 266 ; Bendle in Jonrn. 

 Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 210; GiUbs^ Ic, 469; Bellle in Bull Soc. Bot. 

 France^ Iv. Mem. viii. 57 ^partly ; Hutc1dn.ion in Dyer, Fl Trop. Afr. 

 vi. i. 73L Urinaria indica, Burm. Thes. Zeyl I 93, pj. 2. Nym- 

 phanthns Nirnriy Lour, Fl. Ooeh. 545. Diaspenis Niruri, 0. Kmiize, 

 Bev. Gen. PI ii. 600. — Kirganeli, Bheede, Hort. Malah. x. i. 15. 



Kalahari Regiox : Orange River Colony ; DrackeasLerg Eange, near HaiTi- 

 sinith, Cooper^ 1019! 



A common weed in most tropical coimtries. 



17. P. delagoensis (Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1919, ined.) ; 

 steins probably arising from a woody rhizome, branched from the 

 V>ase, sulcate, glabrous ; branchlets fairly leafy ; leaves broadly elliptic 

 or oblong-elliptic, obtuse at both ends, li-2 lin. long, ^— 14 li^- 

 broad, subcoriaceous, glabrous ; stipules subulate, membranous ; 

 Mowers monoecious, the males in the lower part, the females in the 

 upper part of the branchlets ; male pedicels short and slender ; 

 sepals 6, nnequal, lanceolate, subacute, vip to | lin. long, glabrous ; 

 disc-glands very small and rounded, smooth ; stamens 3 ; filaments 

 connate into a very short column; anthers large and dehiscing 

 transversely and having the appearance of being 4-celled ; female 

 flowers with a pedicel |-| lin. long ; sepals 6, as in the male but 

 somewhat larger and more equal; disc saucer-shaped, slightly 

 undulate, fleshy, glabrous; stigmas subentire and almost sessile 

 on the ovary ; fiuits and seeds not seen. 



Eastern Region : Delagoa Bay ; Lorenzo Marques, Schlechterj 11663! 



IB. P. heterophyllus (E. Meyer in Dr. ^ 



211); a small spreading much-branched undershrub; branches 

 rather sharply angular, glabrous ; leaves orbicular or very broadly 

 elliptic, subobtusely mucronate, l|-4 lin. long, 1^-21 lin. bruad, 

 rigidly coriaceous, glabrous and dull on both surfaces; lateral 

 nerves not visible; petiole about I lin. long; stipules subulate- 

 lanceolate, very acute, |-| lin, long, glabrous ; flowers mona^cious, 

 solitary or geminate; male pedicel | Hn. long, glabrous ; sepals 6, 



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