Phyllanthus.] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (hutchinson). 703 



Stamens 5; filaments free; anthers dehiscing longitudinally at the 

 side. Female flowers: Sepals 5, ovate-elliptic, membranous. Disk 

 saucer- shaped, entire, glabrous. Ovary minutely pitted ; styles 3, erect 

 and subconnate in the lower half, bilol^ed, lobes spreading, sleiider. 

 Capsule not seen. — Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. ^42; Hiern in 

 Cat. Afr. PL VVelw. i. 957. Diasperus loandeusis, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 

 PL ii. 599. 



Kower Guinea. Angola: Loanda; in hilly busliy places on a clay soilboliind 

 Penedo, rare, Welwitsch, 335 ! Loanda, Oossiveiler, 146 ! 266 ! 



9. P. polyanthus, PaK in Engl. Jahrh. xxviii. 19. A glabrous 

 tree with spreading branches. Leaves ovate or oblong, attenuated to 

 the apex, subacute at the base, nearly 3 in. long, 1 J in. broad, coriaceous, 

 shining on both surfaces, margin slightly undulate ; petiole 2 lin. long ; 

 stipules triangular, much shorter than the petiole and not .spinescent. 

 Male flowers in slender leafless racemose fascicles about 3 in. long, on 

 woody branches; pedicel capillary, double tho length of the flower. 

 Sepals 5, ovate-orbicular, obtuse. Disk-glands 5. Stamens 5 ; filaments 

 unequally free ; anthers dehiscing almost vertically. Female flowers not 

 known. Capsule large, 4-celled, i\ in. in diam. — De Wild. (kDurand, 

 Reliq. Dewevr. 204. 



Soutli Central. Belgian Congo: Bangala, on the Congo near Buniha, 

 Dewevr e, 890. 



Bagshawe, 1493, from Uganda may possibly be this species ; see note under 

 10, P. physocarpus. 



10. P. physocarpus, MiilL Ary. in Flora, 1864, 515. A tree 

 25 ft. high ; branches terete, glabrous ; branchlets clustered, slender, 

 grooved, glabrous. Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptic, acute, subacute or 

 very shortly acuminate, obtusely cuneate at the base, |-4 in. long, 

 J-lf in. broad, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces, glaucous below ; 

 lateral nerves 4-7 on each side, very slender and much branched ; veins 

 very lax; petiole 1-2 lin. long, sligiitly wrinkled, glabrous; stipules 

 subulate-filiform, about 1 lin. long, glabrous. Flowers dioecious, males 

 few in axillary fascicles, females few and solitary or subsolitary. Male 

 flowers: pedicel very slender, about \\ lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 5, 

 oblong-ovate, J lin. long, \ lin. broad, obtuse, entire, very thin and 

 iT^.embranous, with a slender midrib. Disk-glands 5, contiguous, trans- 

 versely oblong, very thick and fleshy, distinctly pitted. Stamens 5 ; 

 filaments free ; anthers dehiscing longitudinally at the side. Female 

 flowers : pedicel much thicker than those of the male (at least when in 

 fruit). Disk annular, subentire. Ovary ovoid, glabrous and smooth; 

 styles free almost to the base, bipartite, very slender. Capsules about 

 1 in. in diam., very light ; exocarp crustaceous, slightly thicker than 

 the very thin yellow endocarp. Seeds subreniform, not at all tri(pie- 

 trous, about 3J lin. long; testa mottled and rather dull. — Miill. Arg. in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 342. I)ias2yeriis jihysocarpits, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 

 PI. ii. 600. 



Xiower Guinea. Princes Island, Mann, 1133! Barter, 2023! 



A specimen in fruit collected by Dr. Bagshawe (1493) in the Budongo Forest, 



