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EUPHORBIAGEAE '^^^v yr;.v» 



BY 



A. T. GAGE. 



Breynia Forst. 



-iflreynia racemosa Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. XV, ii, 444. — Melanthcsa racemosa Bl. Bijdr. 592, etc. 

 Dutch New Guinea: valley of the Oro River, [Pl'lle n. 1143, Febr. 1913]. 



Phyllanthus L. 

 Phyllanthus papuanns Gage n. sp. 



Tab. CLXXXII. 



Frute.x i — 2 m. altus. Rami teretes, brunnei, glabri, i — 4 mm. crassi ; ramuli tenues, 

 leviter compressi, auguste alati, angulose flexuosi, fusci, glabri, internodiis 0.4 — 1.5 cm. longis. 

 Folia in ramis rudimentaria minuta triangularia, squamiformia, stipulis similibus; folia in 

 ramulis alternatim bifaria, breviter petiolata, stipulata; lamina cquilateralis, lanceolata, tenue 

 coriacea, in sicco leve-brunnea, concolor. omnino glabra, 3 — 6 cm. longa, 0.7- -1.5 cm. lata, 

 apice acuminato, margine integro leviter recurvato, basi subcuneata; co.sta média in utraque 

 pagina tenuis prominens; nervi latérales tenues, subobscuri, in costae mediae utraque parte 10, 

 leviter excurvatae et intra marginem anastomosantes ; nervuli obscuri ; petiolus subteres, glaber, 

 2 — 3 mm. longus; stipulae late lanceolatae, tenue coriaceae, glabrae, circa 2 mm. longae. 

 Flores axillares, in racemulis parvulis strobiliformibus congestis bracteolatis vel in nodulis 

 dispositi; racemuli r — 2 mm. longi ; bracteolae minutae triangulares, dense imbricatae, ovatae 

 acutae, glabrae, + carinatae; flores cT pediallati ex bracteolarum axillis émergentes; pedicelli 

 teretes, glabri, circa i mm. longi; calyx ovoidea, 1.5 — 2 mm. longa; sepala 6 biserialia, 

 membranacea, glabra intégra, subaequalia, 3 exteriora anguste ovata, 3 interiora latc ovata; 

 glandulae 3, contra sepala exteriora dispositac, minutissimae, subglobosac corrugulatae, sessiles; 

 columna staminalis tenuis teres, glabra, vix i mm. longa; antherae columnam superantes 3, 

 oppositae, circa 0.5 mm. longae. Flores O in nodulis axillaribus superioribus solitarii vel fascicu- 

 lati, breviter pedicellati ; pedicelli validi, teretes, glabri, curvati, circa i mm. longi; calyx 

 globose-ovoidea; sepala 6 — 8, biserialia, sepalis floris masculini similia; discus annulosus, glaber, 

 membranaceus, circa 3 mm. latus, ovarii basim cingcns, irregulariter fissus; ovarium glabrum. 



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