700 cxxii. EUPHORTiiACE.f: (hutchinson). [Phi/llanthvs. 



stipules iiiie;ir, mem>)TJinous with JMgged margins, about J lin. long, soon 

 falling off. Male flowers in axillary fascicles on the young branciilets, 

 surrounded at the base by laciniate l)rown bracts; pedicel short, glabrous. 

 Sepals 5, elliptic-ovate, acute, 1-nerved, | lin. long, J lin. broad, glabrous. 

 Disk -glands T), rounded, fleshy, nearly smooth. Stamens 5, three fila- 

 ments connate to near the top, the other two free nearly to the base ; 

 anthers dehiscing longitu<linally. Female flowers not known. 



XVXozainb. Dlstr. (icrinan East Afrrca: Unyainwezi ; Mngondi, Trofha, 72! 

 Mg^ogoiidi, Tritiha, 2l) ! Ka<?eln, on Luke Victori i, Fischer, 554! Karagwe ; 

 IliaiJgiro, iSfuhlmann, 904 ! 



5. P. reticulatus, roh-. Enci/cl. v. 21)8. An erect much-branched 

 shrub ; stems pubescent, at length nearly glabrous ; flowering branchlets 

 sometimes produced in fascicles, but more often solitary, up to 2\ in. 

 long, densely crisped-pubescent. Leaves oblong or elliptic, mostly 

 rounded at both ends, |-1 j in. long, ^5^-7 lin. broad, somewhat mem- 

 branouSj glabrous or crisped-pubescent ; lateral nerves 7-9 on each side ; 

 petiole pubescent ; stipules lanceolate, acute. Flowers monoecious, 

 axillary, one female and two or three males in each fascicle ; pedicel 

 slender, up to 2 Hi], long, slightly pubescent or glabrous. Male flowers : 

 Sepals 5, ovate elliptic, 1 -nerved, about | lin. long. Diak-glands 5, 

 obovate, flattened, smooth. Stamens 5 ; two or three of the filaments 

 connate to near the top, the two others always free and much shorter ; 

 antheis dehiscing at the side, cells cohering at their tips, diverging at 

 the base. Female flowers : Sepals lis in the male. Disk of separate 

 glands similar to those of the male. Ovary depressed-globose, glabrous ; 

 styles very short, erect and crowded. Fruit fleshy or coriaceous, 8-1 G- 

 seeded, about 3 lin. in diam. Seeds irregularly trigonous, punctulate. 

 —Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 23G ; Durand ct De Wild, in Bull. Soc. 

 Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 103; De Wild, k Durand, lleliq. Dewevr. 205; De 

 Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 127, and Etudes Fl. 15as- et Moyen-Congo, i. 

 275, ii. 208 ; Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 409. Phyllanthiis 

 multiflorus, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 581. P. prieurianus, Miill. Arg. in 

 Linna3a, xxxii. 12. P. alaternohhs, Reichb. ex Baill. Adansonia, i. 83. 

 P. reticulatas, var. yenuinua, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 344 ; 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 958. Anlsonema reticulatum, Adr. Juss. 

 Euph. t. 4, fig. 11. Kiryanelia reticulata^ Baill. Etude Gen. Euphorb. 

 013. K. jyrieuriana, Baill. Adansonia, i. 82. Diasperus reticulatus^ 

 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. OOO 



Upper Guinea. 'Senog.nDbia : Senegal, Sieher, 41! Leprieur ! Ferrottet, 

 64, 751, 752. VVcsti'in Sudan : from El Miissara to Djygm, Chevalier, 3461 ! 

 NorLliern Nigoiia: Katagum district, Dalziel, 210! sand-flats of the River 

 lienuc, Dalziel, 161 ! Xortli Hornu; neavDuclii. Elliott, 143! Southern Ni-eria: 

 Attah (Idda), Vogel, 114! C.imeroons: Gnrua, Ledermann, 3253! 



Xrile Xiand. Sudan: Sedab, between Berber and Khartum, Schweinfurth, 

 540! near Kliartnni, Schiceinfurth, 868! Atbara, Broun, 1017! Mittu: Mvolo, 

 Schweinfnrth, 2828 ! British East Africa: Witn, Thomas, 202!- 



Xiower Guinea, bower Congo: various localities, Detchvre ; Oillef, 3979, 

 4045, Pt/naerf, 191, Laurent, Biittner. Ango'a: Loan^a, Welwitsch, 325! Oosk, 

 weiltr, 245 ! Benguela, Welwitsch, 326 ! 



