Phyllanthus.'] cxxii. fMipiiORBiACE.i-: (ihjtchixson). 707 



17. P. Hildebrandtiiy Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xv. 526, A glabrous 

 shrub about 7 ft. high ; branches terete ; flowering branch lets produced, 

 in fascicles, about J in. long, bearing about 4 pairs of leaves. Leaves 

 elliptic or obovate-elliptic, rounded at both ends, 2-4 lin. long, 1^-H lin. 

 broad, very thinly chartaceous ; petiole very short ; stipules ovate- 

 triangular, lacerate towards the apex. Flowers dioecious, axillary, 

 solitary, shortly pedicellate. Male flowers: Sepals G, oblong or oblong- 

 linear, 1-nerved, membranous. Disk-glands 6, flat and rounded, slightly 

 warted. Stamens 3 ; filaments united to near the top, the column very 

 slightly produced into a little knob in the middle of the anthers ; 

 anthers dehiscing at the side. Female flowers not known. 



xrile Iiand. Soinaliland ; Ahl Momitjiius ; anioiig rocks near Maid, Hilde- 

 brandf, 1537 ! 



18. P. sepialiS) Mllll. Arg, in Ahhandl. Naturw. Ver. Bremen, vii, 

 25. A shrub about 7 ft. high ; branches woody, somewhat angular when 

 young, glabrous ; flowering branchlets up to 2 in. long, slightly flattened 

 or subberete, glabrous. Leaves obovate or obovate-elliptic, rounded or 

 truncate and very slightly mucronulate at the apex, broadly cuneate at 

 the base, 8-5 lin. long, 1^-3 lin. broad, thin, glabrous on both surfaces ; 

 lateral nerves 5-6 on each side, very slightly raised below ; petiole 

 scarcely J lin, long, glabrous ; stipules lanceolate, membranous, a little 

 longer than the petiole. Flowers dioecious, or at least the males and 

 females on separate shoots. Males two or three together in each leaf- 

 axil ; pedicel slender, about 1 lin. long, glabrous. Sepals 6, elliptic, 

 rounded or slightly pointed at the apex, about J lin. long, 1-nerved, 

 membranous, glabrous. Disk-glands 6, flat, contiguous, slightly warted. 

 Stamens 3 ; filaments connate ; anthers dehiscing at the side. Female 

 flowers axillary, solitary; pedicel IJ lin. long, slender, glabrous. Sepals 

 as in the male. Disk flat, rather deeply 5-6-lobed ; lobes crenulate, 

 glabrous. Ovary subglobose, not lobed, glabrous ; styles free to the 

 base, slender, spreading, bilobed to about the middle, lobes linear. 

 Capsule not seen,— Fax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236. P. Conradi, 

 Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xliii. 75. 



Wile Xiand. British East Africa : Ukamba ; near Kitrn, Hildebrandt, 26951 

 Mozamb. Bistr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Moschi, ^«^/er, 1871 ! 

 Neuwit'(], Ukerewe Island, Conrad, 286 ! 



19. P. discoideus, Miill. Arg. tw Limum, xxxii. 51. A tree 

 30-50 ft. high, but sometimes a shrub ; branches finely sulcate, sub- 

 terete ; lateral flowering branchlets about 2 J in. long, spreiiding, 

 cri>ped-puberulous or more rarely glabrescent. Leaves ovate-elliptic to 

 obovate-oblanceolate, rounded or very shortly acuminate at the apex, 

 varying from rounded to cuneate at the base, 1-i in. long, j-lj in. 

 broad, thinly chartaceous or meuibranous, glabrous on both surfaces 

 except on the midrib which is sometimes puberulous below ; lateral 

 nerves 6-12 on each side, spreading, slightly raised on both surfaces ; 

 veins slender and rather close; petiole lJ-2 lin. long, tomentellous ; 

 stipules soon falling oft', oblong-linear, 1 i-2j lin, long, membranous, 



