694 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiE ( HUTCHINSON). [Phyllanthus. 



*JStaraen8 4. 



Male flowering branchlets usually leafy to- 

 wards the apex, produced in clusters on 

 the \ounger wood in the axil of a leafy 

 flowerless shoot ..... 



Male flowering brnnchlets not or scarcely 

 leafy, produced in clusters on the older 

 wood and not in the axil of a leafy flowerless 

 shoot ....... 



tttf Stamens 3, filaments free or united. 

 Filaments quite free. 



Flowers dioecious ...... 



Flowers monoecious ..... 



ilairents connate. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, rigidly coriaceous, not 



more than ] J lin. broad . . . . 14. P. virgulatus. 



Lenves obovate, elliptic or suborbicular, more 

 than \^ liii. broad. 



Leaves mucrouute 15. P. macranthus. 



Leaves not mucronate. 



Male flowers solitary ; staminal column 

 slightly produced beyond the insertion of 

 the anthers ; flowering branchlets less 



than 1 in. long 17. P. UUdehrandtii. 



Male flowers 3-4 together in each leaf -axil ; 

 stamin;<l column not p;oduced; flowering 

 branchlets 1-2 in. long . . . 18. P. sepialis. 



**Flowcring branchlets not produced in fascicles. 



f Stamens 3,4 or 5; filainfuts free or sliglitly connate 

 at the base, or rarely some fiee and the others 

 connate, never all connate. 

 Disk oi' the male flowers annular . . . 19. /'. dlscoidevft. 



Disk of the male 'flowets consisting of- separate 

 gland*. 

 JStamens 5, rarely 4. 



Two or three of the filaments connate (o the 



apex, the remainder free and shorter . 5. 2*. reticulatun. 

 All the filaments quite free. 



Flowers dioecious . ... 20. P. graminicola 



Flowers moncecious. 



Pedicel slender, 2 lin. lung or more. 



lininchlets puLerulous or pubescent . 21. P. capillaris. 

 lirauchlets glabrous or very slightly 

 nsperulate. 

 Capsule about 1 lin. in diam. ; seeds 



pitted 22. P.nummularifoUus, 



Capsule about 2\ lin. in diam. ; 



seeds smooth . . .23. P. somalensis. 



Pedicel shorter and stouter, usually less J 



than 1^ lin. long. ^' 



Branches spiny . . . . 7. P. DinJclagei 



liranchc'S not spiny. 

 Styks short and very divergent, 

 spreading over the top of the 

 ovary, free to the base . . 24. P. pentandrvs. 



