702 rxxii. EUPiioRBiACE^ (hutchinson). [Phyilanthus. 



157! Kersting, 42! 165! 171! 430! Oraf Zech, 291-293! Lugos : various 

 localities, Barter, 3280! Rowland! Moloney! MacOregor, 159! Nortliern 

 Nigeria: Nnpe, Barter, \QQQ>\ Zungeru, Balziel, 64! Soutliem Nigeria: Old 

 Calabrtr River, J/awn, 2262 ! Idda, Barter, 4:54:1 Cauieroons: vnrious localities, 

 Zenker ^ Standi, 458! Zenker, 1310! 2486! 2729! 3657! Staudt, 571! 

 Ledermann, 3801 ! 4831 ! 2106 ! 2773 ! Bates, 311 ! Fernando Po, Mann, 12 ! 



Nortb Central. Lake Iro region, CAefWier, 8755 ! Ndell^, C^cm/ier, 8037 ! 



Idrile Xiand. Bongo, Schnieinfurth, 2209 ! 



]«ower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, Mann, 1076! French Congo: 

 Krebedje; valley of the Tonii, Chevalier, 5394! Boma ; Upper Shiloango, Cahra 

 Sf Michel. StimleyPool; Kiinuenza, Gillet. 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo: Monlmttu ; Munza, Schtveinfurth, S359 I 

 3449 ! NiiMniii:nn : I)i;«gbe Hivcr, Schweinfttrth, 3111 ! 



Mozamb. Dlstr. German East Africa : eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, 

 Scott -Elliot, 8313! 8351 ! 



7. P. Dinklagei, Pax 'm Engl. Jahrh. xix. 77. A shrub; branches 

 spiny, anirular or subterete, glabrous ; flowering branchlets spreadinj/, 

 slender, 2 -3 J in. long, with up to 14 pairs of leaves, rather sharply 

 angular, glabrous. Leaves oblong, rounded at both ends, 5-7 lin. long, 

 lJ-3 lin. broad, very thin, darker and closely reticulate on the upper 

 surface, glabrous on both surfaces, glaucous below; lateral nerves 9-12 

 on each side, not at all raised on either surface ; petiole \ lin. long, 

 glabrous ; stipules subulate, nearly twice the length of the petiole, 

 margin slightly serrulate or jagged. Flowers moucEcious, axillary, 

 one female and three or four males in each leaf-axil ; pedicel very 

 slender, glabrous, of the male 2-2J lin. long, of the female a 

 little shorter, Male flowers: Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, 

 J lin. long, not membranous, glabrous. Disk -glands 5, small, rounded, 

 fleshy. Stamens .5; filaments free, 3 long and 2 shorter; anthers 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Female flowers : Sepals as in the male. Divsk 

 cupular, rather fleshy, crenulate. Ovary ovoid, smooth ; styles erect, 

 connate in the lower half, free portion bilobed to near the base, lobes 

 linear and very slender, reflexed or reflexed-spreading. Capsule sub- 

 globose, about 1 lin. in diam. ; exocarp slightly fleshy. Mature seeds 

 not seen. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Efulen, Bates^ 371! between Mundane and 

 Otam, Schlechter, 12887 ! 



Xiower Guinea. Gaboon: Sibange Farm, Din^^a^e, 583 ! „ 



8. P. loandensis, Weho. e.r, MilU. Arg. in Journ. Bot. 1864, 329. 

 An undershrub, woody at the base ; stem erect, 2-3 ft. high, branched ; 

 branchlets slender, glabrous. Leaves elliptic or obovate, obtuse at both 

 end?, obtusely mucronulate at the apex, 2-4 lin. long, 1-2 J lin. broad, 

 slightly coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves 4-5 on 

 each side, slightly prominent below; veins not visible; petiole J lin. 

 long, glabrous; stipules subulate, a little longer than the petiole. Male 

 flowers: pedicel h lin. long, glabrous. Sepals obovate, rounded at the : 

 apex, J lin, long, J lin. broad, membranous, with a distinct midrib, ' 

 glabrous. Disk-glands 5, broadly obovate, truncate, thin, glabrous, | 



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