Phyllanthns.] euphorbiace.e (Hutchinson). 401 



lanceolate, subobtuse, glabrous; disc-glands 6, snaall, rounded, 

 smooth ; stamens 3 ; filaments connate to the apex ; anthers 

 dehiscing obliquely ; female flowers shortly pedicellate ; sepals 6, 

 oblong-lanceolate, subacute, about 1 lin. long, glabrous, becoming 

 reflexed in fruit ; disc fleshy, undulate, glabrous ; ovary smootli ; 

 styles slightly spreading, a little swollen and sometimes bifid at the 

 apex; capsule 3-lobed, about 1^- lin. in diam. j seeds almost smooth 

 on the back. 3IiilL Arg. in Ltnawa, xxxii. 43, and in DG, Prodr. xv. 

 11. 405. P. incurviis, Sond. in Linnsea^ xxiii. 135, excl. syn, P, 

 lieteropliyllas, E. Meyer; Baill in Adansonia, iii. 165, not of ThuuK 

 P. capensts^ Sprang, ex Sand, I.e. {in syn,), name only. P. andrachni' 

 formis, Pax in Bull Rerh. Boiss. 2""' ser. viii. 634. 



South Africa : without precise locality, Thuriberg ! Verveaxtx ! 



Coast Rkgion: Moesel Bay Div. ; Mossel Bay. Gulllm in Ilcrh. Guthrie, 43731 

 Uitenhage Div. ; near the Z\\'artkop,s Eiver, Echlon & Zeylier, 599 ! Zeyhtr, 20! 

 3821 ! near Uitenhage, Schlechter, 2503 ! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Port Elizabeth, no 

 collector's name, in Herb. Stod:liohn, 30 ! Bathui^t Div. ; near Barville Park, 

 Burchell, 4101 ! Albany Div. ; Round Hill, Bolus, 10654 ! Bothas Berg, MacOwan, 

 1430! Div.? Brege, 8222a! 



Eastern Regiox : Natal; near Durban, Schkchter, 2986! Dumisa, Rudatis^ 

 778 ! Umgeni, Rchmaan, 8811 ! near Clairmont, Sclilcchter, 3052! 



19. P. cinereoviridis (Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 76) ; a shrub ; 



branches whitish^ terete, smooth, sHghtly sulcate ; ultimate 'flowering 

 branchlets rather densely pubescent or almost tomentose, much 

 Abbreviated, about 1 lin. long; leaves greyish-green, orbicular or 

 ovate-orbicular, rounded at both ends or sometimes slightly 

 emarginate at the apex, 2|-5 lin. long, 2-4| lin. broad, rather 

 rigidly chartaceous, minutely pitted and shortly pubescent on both 

 surfaces, trinerved from the base, the middle nerve with 2-3 lateral 

 ones, all slightly raised on both surfaces; petiole 1-2 lin. long, 

 sparingly crisped-pubescent ; stipules ovate, thick and fleshy, 

 tomentose; flowers dioecious; male inflorescence axillary, peduncu- 

 late, with about 6 sessile flowers in a cluster at the apex of each 

 peduncle ; bracts ovate, tomentose ; peduncle about 1 lin. long, 

 tomentose; sepals 4^ in two series^ small, suborbicular, glabrous 

 inside, tomentose outside; disc small, saucer-shaped, entire or 

 slightly undulately lobed, glabrous ; stamens 2 ; filaments connate, 

 "^ery short; anthers large and fleshy, dehiscing at the side and 

 apparently transversely owing to the position of the anthers; 

 temale flowers not known. 



Wkstkrn Region : Great Xania(iua!ancl ; Gubub, Dinter, 893 ! 



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Imperfedhj Inown species. 

 20. P. minus, Linn, ex Sond. in LInnaea, xxiii. 135, name oulj. 



Eastern Rkgion : Natal; Port Natal, Gxteinzhis. 



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