Phf/Uaiithus.] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (hutchinson), 701 



South Central. Helo^ian Cong-o : Kasoiif^o, Dewh'7'e, 950a. 



Mozamb. Distr. Gorman East Africa : V sunnno, Siuhlmann, IQld \ Tan^ii, 

 7/0/5?', 2012 ! Volkens, 9S\ IJiitisli Central Africa : Nyasaland; various localities, 

 Scott I Scott-Elliot, 8409! Whyte! Buchanan, 947! Rhodesia: near Victoria 

 Fiills, Miss Oibhs, 129 ! Galpin, 7016 ! Matoppo Hills, Rattray in Herb, Oalpin, 

 6969! 



Var. glaher, Miill. Arc^. in Linnaea, xxxii. 12. Entirely glabrous, otherwise 

 similar to the typical plant. — Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 345 ; Hiern, I.e. 

 Pliyllanthus 2wli/spermns, Schnmach. & Thoun. Heskr. Guiu. PI. 416. Kirgantlii 

 prieturiana, \av. glabra, Baill. Adansonia, i. 12. K. zanzibariensis, liaill. I.e. ii. 48. 



Upper Guinea. Gold Coast: Kita (Quetta), Thonning ! Lagos, 3it7/e», 53 ! 

 Roicland I Southern Nigeria : l^iver Quorra (Niger), Vogel ! 



Xile ]band. British Ea«t Africa: Shiniba Mountains, Kassner, 193! 



Xiower Guinea. Angola : Loanda, Wehvitsch, 325b ! 



r». P. floribundus, Miill. Arg. in Linnaa, xxxii. 14. A trailing shrub 

 or climber up to i30 f t. high ; stems terete, glabrous, with short ovate or 

 1 inceolate often recurved spines at the base of the lateral leaf-bearing 

 branchlets; leafy branchlets slender, spreading, up to 7 in. long, 

 thickened at'the base, glabrous. Leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, rounded 

 an<l mucronate at the apex or very shortly acuminate from a rounded 

 apex, mostly rontided or truncate at the base, |-3 in. long, l-\\ in. 

 broad, membranous or the older thinly chartaceous, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, often glaucous below; lateral nerves 6-12 on each side, 

 spreading almost at right angles, then curved and branched, slightly 

 raised on both surfaces; veins lax and indistinct; petiole 1-| lin. long, 

 glabrous ; stipules lineai-, shorter than the petiole. Flowers monoecious, 

 racemose; racemes fasciculate in the axils of the leaf-beaiing branchlets, 

 slender, up to 2 in. long; flowers in clusters on the main axis of each 

 inflorescence, 2 or 3 males surrounding a solitary feujale ; male pedicel 

 very slender, 1 lin. long, glabrous, of the female a little shorter 

 and stouter. Male flowers: Sepals 5, oblong, rounded at the apex, 

 about J lin. long, glabrous. Disk-glands 5, fleshy, slightly pitted or 

 warted. Stamens 5; filaments quite free, slightly unequal; anthers 

 dehiscing at the side. Female flowers : Sepals soon deciduous. Disk 

 cupular, entire or undulately lobed, glabrous. Ovary ellipsoid, 

 glabrous ; styles 4-5, spreading, very slender, bilobed, lobes linear, 

 subterete. Fruit depressed- globose, 1^ lin. in diam. ; mesocarp fleshy. 

 Seeds triquetrous, convex on the back, smooth and faintly reticulate. — 

 Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 343; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 

 230, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 103; De Wild. & Durand, 

 Reliq. Dewevr. 204 ; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, i. 

 275, ii. 266; Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 648; Th. ct Ilel. 

 Durand, Syll. Flor. Congol. 482. PhyllantJms Jlorihindus, var. krehed- 

 jensis, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iv. M6m. viii. 55. Kir(janelia 

 florihunda, Baill. Adansonia, i. 83. Diasperus Jtorih^indus, O. Kuntze, 

 Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 597. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia : Nunez, Heudelof, 659 ! Siena Leone : various 

 localities, Scott- Elliot, 4144! 4402! 4625! Johnston, 96! Liberia: ntiir 

 Monrovia, Whyte ! Togo: various localities, Krause, 17-19! Biittner^l^X 112! 



