698 cxxii. ETTPHORBIACE.E (hutcdinson). [Phyllanthus. 



Leaves rounded or truncate .and oft(!n 

 slightly euiarg'intite; lateral nerves 13-16 

 on cai'h side, slightly raised below ; sepals 

 of tlje female flowers obovate, narrowed 

 to the base ; seeds covered with numer 

 ous longitudinal rows of very small wart- 

 like protuberances .... 66. P. Seillei. 

 JJLcaves |-^ in. long ..... 38. P. hutchinsonianus. 



1. P. kirkianuSy Mali. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 486. A small shrub ; 

 branches subsimple, stout, terete, glabrous ; young shoots produced in 

 fascicles, rather slender, glabrous. Leaves obovate or suborbicular, 

 rounded or truncate at the apex, very obtuse or slightly cuneate at the 

 base, 2-G lin. long, 2-4 lin. broad, membranous, glabrous on both sur- 

 faces ; lateral nerves about 5 on each side, branched, slightly prominent 

 below; veins slightly prominent below, rather lax; petiole | lin, long; 

 stipules linear-lf^iiceolate, equalling the petiole, membranous, brown, 

 mfirgin jagged. Flowers dioecious, clustered on extremely short lateral 

 branchlets produced in fascicles on the older wood. Male flowers: 

 bracts membranous; pedicel very slender, 2 lin. long, glabrous. 

 Sepals 6, unequal, obovate or oblong, J lin, long, membranous, glabrous, 

 tips reddish-brown and laciniate or jagged. Disk annular, subcrenulate, 

 glabrous. Stamens 6 ; filaments about thrice the length of the calyx, 

 glabrous, very shortly connate at the base or nearly free ; anthers 

 curved. Female flowers : pedicel 1 J-IJ in. long, very sknder, slightly 

 thickened towards the apex, glabrous. Sepals joined at the base, other- 

 wise similar to the male. ]3isk very thin and adnate to the base of the 

 calyx, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, each carpel depressed in the upper part ; 

 styles slender, connate at the base, bilobed to about the middle, slightly 

 I apillose. Capsule (immature ?) trilobed, about 3 lin. long and 2J lin. 

 in diam., closely and distinctly reticulate, each style persistent in a 

 depression of the incurved apex of each carpel. Ripe seeds not seen. — 

 Miill. Ays. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 3:54 ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 23(;. 

 J\ fenensis, Miill. Arg. I.e. 835. Viasjyerus kirkianus and D. senensis, 

 O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI ii, 599, GOl. Cluytiandra Schinzii, Pax in 

 ]>ull. Herb. Boiss. 2me ser, viii, 635, 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Portuguese East Africa ; Lower Zambesi ; Tete, Kirk, 4 ! 

 Sena, retera ! Boruma, Menyharth, 119 ! 



2. P. lalambensis, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. \re ser. vii. 

 App. ii. 302. A shrub several feet high or a small tree; branches 

 terete, with a dark-brown sulcate bark ; flowering-branchlets fascicu- 

 late, leafy, less than 1 in, long, subterete, glabrous. Leaves oblong or 

 oblong-elliptic, obtuse at both ends, 3-5 lin. long, 2-3 lin, broad, thinly 

 chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; petiole about J lin. long; 

 stipules ovate or oblong-lanceolate, a little longer than the petiole, 

 margin lacerate. Flowers dioecious, males in axillary fascicles ; pedicel 

 about I lin, long, rather slender, glabrous. Sepals 4 or 5, broadly 

 elliptic or obovate, slightly unequal, margins {-lightly membranous. Disk- 

 glands 4, fleshy, rounded, almost contiguous, slightly pitted. Stamens 4, 



