PhjUanthus.] rxxii. ErpiiORBiACE.f: (hutchixsox). 705 



branous, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 5-G on each side, 

 distinct on both surfaces and slightly raised below ; petiole | lin. long, 

 slender ; stipules linear, 1-H lin. long, glabrous, membranous. Flowers 

 difecious, solitary, female pedicel about 1 lin. long, the male much 

 shorter. Male flowers: Sepals G, oblong-elliptic, l-nerved, scarcely 

 h lin. long. Disk-glands B, flattened, rounded and prominently warted. 

 Stamens 3 ; lilaments free to the base ; anther-cells distinct, dehiscing 

 at the side. Female flowers: Sepals 6, oblong-oblanceolate, j lin. long, 

 ^ lin. broad, with a broad green portion in the middle, margins trans- 

 parent and membranous. Dis-k thin, saucer-shaped, crenulate. Ovary 

 subglobose, slightly warted : styles free to the base, slender, bilobed to 

 below their middle, lobes linear and not swollen at the apex. Capsule 

 depressed -globose, reticulate, about 1 J lin. in diam. Seeds with about 

 6 or 7 laint longituilinal lines on the back. — Pax in Engl. Pfi.Ost-Afr. 

 C. 23(;. 



wile Iiand. Uritisli East Africa : Tana Itiver, Batfiscomhe, 2A0 \ 

 XVIozamb. Blstr. (u'linan Kast Africa: ^reru Moiuitain, FiscJier, 102! 

 .'>32 ! Ixtwci'ii .MtMMi .Motnitiin and Kilimanjaro, M&rker, CIO! Kilimanjai-o ; 

 various localities, Mcrkrr, 000! I'olkens, ITl's ! 1G39 ! 1640! south of Mo'ndul, 

 Chli'l, 424! 



14. P. virgulatus, MaU. An/. inJourn. Bat. 18G4, 3?>0. Anunder- 

 shrub; stems elongated, woody, iinely longitudinally sulcate, glabrous; 

 flowering branches alendei-. spreading, up to 5 in. long, subterete. Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, produced into a sharp spinescent apex, narrowed to the 

 base, the largest \ in. long, I j iiu. broad, coriaceous, l-nerved, with a 

 cartilaginous margin, glabrous on both surfaces; petiole very short; 

 stipules rigidly subulate from a broader base, very acute, \\ lin. long. 

 Klowers dio'cious, males axillary, solitary, or sometimes accompanied by 

 one or two rudimentjiry ones, shortly pedicellate. Sepals G, in 2 series, 

 o outer elliptic, roundetl at the apex, l^lin. long, 2 lin. broad, 3 inner 

 a little narrower, all with a faint median nerve and several lateral ones. 

 Disk-glands G, thin, smooth. Stamens W \ filaments connate; anthers 

 dehiscing at the sides. Ft-male tlowers solitary ; pedicel about 1 lin. 

 long, much thickened towards the top. Sepals G, in 2 series, 3 outer 

 ones small, ovate, obtuse, 8 inner ovate-oblong, \\ lin. long, J lin. broad, 

 the whole very thick and coriaceous without visible veins. Disk entire, 

 aiuHilar, flat, glabrous. Ovary subglobose, slightly lobed, glabrous; 

 styles erect, fret* to the base, entire, stigma subcapitate. Kipe capsule 

 not .M*en.--Miill. Arg. in DC. Frodr. xv. ii. oGO : Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. 



. Welw. i. 95& : Pax in IJaum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. ''1'6^2. Diasperus 

 vinpddtHs. O. Kunt/.e, Rev. CJen. PI. ii. GOl. 



Xiower Guinea. Anj^ola : runfro Amlon«ro ; in thickots between liuuiba and 

 ("oii.kv, iitar tl.e ir'«at (s.taract of ti.e Cnaiiza HiviT, Welwifsch, 328 ! by tbe Kutsi 

 Kiver hI.ov,' Kapnl... 4300 ft., Ii,ium, 893! oast of Fort Prinoeza Amelia, Cnbango, 

 (io.s.s-fPcihr, 2000 ! alonj; the ua^'oii road at Cauj^uia, ni^ar Munonque, Gossweiler, 

 2t);}9 ! .Mount Ani;>ral and Knbau^'o, liu.ssiceUcr, 1827 ! 



15. p. macranthus, Par in EnyJ. Jahvh. xix. 77. A small compart 



shrub; l)ark of the stem splitting longitudinally, brown; flowering 



