rhyllanthus.'] cxxii. euphorbiace^ (hutciiinson). 709 



J lin. broad, membranous, glabrous. Disk-glands transversely oblong, 

 J lin. broad, very thin and smooth. Stamens 4-5, filaments free to the 

 base ; anther-cells divergent, dehiscing at the side. Female flowers 

 not known. 



XVXozamb. Blstr. Rhodesia: near Chirinda, -S'lc^^wner^OM, 261 ! 



21. P. capillarisy Schum. d- Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PL 417. A 

 small shrub 2-4 ft. high ; branches and branchlets slender, slightly 

 grooved or terete, whitish-pubescent. Leaves obovate or elliptic- 

 obovate, rounded or subacute and slightly mucronate, slightly cuneate 

 or obtuse at the base, 4-12 lin. long, 8-5 lin. broad, membranous, 

 glabrous, glaucous-green on the lower surface ; lateral nerves 5-9 on 

 each side, prominent below ; veins scarcely visible on either side ; petiole 

 J lin. long, glabrous; stipules lanceolate, subulate at the apex, 1^ lin. 

 long, ^ lin. broad towards the base, entire, glabrous. Flowers in axillary 

 fascicles on the young branchlets, females often solitary or subsolitary; 

 pedicel very slender, up to | in. long, glabrous. Male flowers : Sepals 

 5, broadly obovate, J lin. long, | lin. broad. Disk of 5 obovate truncate 

 fleshy glands alternating with the sepals. Stamens 5, free ; anthers 

 rounded, dehiscing at the side. Female flowers : Sepals 4-5 (usually 5), 

 ovate-elliptic, obtuse at both ends, J lin. long, -J- lin. broad, entire, 

 membranous with a conspicuous greenish-yellow midrib. Disk saucer- 

 shaped, entire, glabrous. Ovary globose, glabrous ; styles 3, free, 

 slender, bipartite nearly to the base, spreading or retlexed. Capsule 

 depressed-globose, 1 lin. in diam., smooth ; seeds convex on the back, 

 testa brown, minutely and closely pitted. — Miill. Arg. in DC. Frodr. 

 XV. ii. 3:38 (inch vars.) ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 23G ; Hiern in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 957; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 242; 

 De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 108 ; De Wild. Miss. 

 E. Laurent, 127, and Etudes FI. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 196, t. 54, 

 and PI. Thonner. Congol. 22 ; Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 048. 

 Diasj^erus capillaris^ O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 598. 



Upper Guinea. Sicrrn Loone: near Ei-imakuua, Scot f -Elliot, 52451 Samu 

 country, Scoft-Elliot, 5041! Liberia: Sinoe liasln, Whi/te ! Ivory Coaet: 

 Hingerville, Chevalier, 16071 ! Kapiacron, Chevalier, 17178 ! Gold Coast, 

 Thonning ! Burton ! Togo : Bismarkbuig, Biittner, 333 ! La<;oe, Phillips, 33 ! 

 Millson,l4Q\ Roioland ! Southern Nigeria: Old Calabar, 7/o//a«r/, 85 ! Honnv, 

 Kalhrcyer, 44 ! Cameroona : Cameroon Kiver, Mann, 758 ! 222G ! Yaunde, 

 Zenker, 1410 ! Zenker ^ Staudt, 95 ! Ef ulen. Bates, 380 ! 



Wile ]Land. Mittu: Kuraggera, Schweinfurth, 2763! Uganda: waste 

 ground, Wilson, \02\ British East Africa : Ukamba, AVo/MtV/io^ 6439 ! 



ZiODirer Guinea. Spanish Guinea: Bcbai, Tessmann, 430! 584! Lower 

 Congo: various localitic!!, Cahra, Vanderyst, Diipont, Detrerre, Laurent, Gillet. 

 Angola: Golungo Alto ; /Fe/^t'tY.vc^, 336 ! Malange, G^cyA/'-e/Zer, 984 ! 



Soutli Central. Belgian Congo: various localities, Laurent, !Schlechtcr, 

 12604 ! Hens, 142 ! Thonner, Descamps. 



Mozamb 3>lstr. German East Africa: Umbngwe and Iraku, ilfer/tpr, 126 I 



Var. Stuhlmanii, Hutchinson. Pedicels and midrib of the leaves crispcd- 

 pubcscent; leaves 1^-3 Uji. long.— P. Stuhlmanii, Pax in Engl. Pll. Ost-Afr. C.230. 



