710 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (hutchinson). [Fhyllanthvs. 



Wile Z.and. Ugancln : Buddu, Scott-Elliot, 7512! Stuhlmann ! British 

 East Africa : G;iluiika, Kassner, 788 ! 



22. P. nummularisefolius, Poir. Encycl. v. 302, partly. A small 

 much-branched shrub; branches and branchlets slightly grooved, 

 glabrous. Leaves obovate or rounded-obovate, subacute and mucronate, 

 rounded or subacute at the base, 3-9 lin. long, 2-5 lin. broad, mem- 

 branous, glabrous on both surfaces, sometimes glaucous below ; lateral 

 nerves 5-7 on each side, usually prominent on the lower surface ; veins 

 hardly visible ; petiole ^-J lin. long, glabrous ; stipules, male and female 

 flowers, fruits and seeds as in P. capillaris. — Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 584 ; 

 Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 337 ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236. 

 Monarda nummular i folia, Baill. Etude Gen. Euphorb. 609. Anisonema 

 multijlorum, Thomson in Spekc, Nile Journ. App. 647, not of Wight. 

 Diasperus nummulariaifolius, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 600. 



wile Iiand. Monbuttu: on tbe Kussmnbo River, Schweinfurth, 146! 

 Niamniam : by ,tbe lUver Sway, Schweinfurth, 2865 ! top of Mount Ba^inse, 

 Schweinfurth, 3829 ! Uganda : Elgon district, James ! Madi ; near water, 

 Speke Sf Grant ! lii itisli East Africa : 4 days' march from Muniias, Whyte ! 



Mozamb. Dlstr. Zanzibar : Speke, 4 ! Hildehrandt, 1042 ! Kirk ! German 

 East Africa : Amboni, Hoist, 2834 ! Gonga, Hoist, 4239 ! P.ntuguese Ea^t 

 Africa: Mapt-si, JoA».vow, 147 ! Morainballa, A'vrA: .' 1 nbambane, ^'co^^ .' British 

 Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Fort Hill, Tangan\il<a Plateau, Whyte ! Nyika 

 Plateau, McClounie, 116! Plateau of Mount Zomba, 5000-6000 ft., Whyte! 

 near Blantyre, Last ! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 308 ! 



Occurs also in Madagascar. 



23 P. soxnalensis, Hutchinson. A shrub 4-7 ft. high ; branches 

 flexuous, subterete, covered with a brown bark ; flowering branchlets 

 produced singly on rather short shoots, slender, slightly flexuous, 

 subterete, glabrous. Tjeax es elliptic or obovate-eliiptic, obtuse at both 

 ends, J-| in. long, \-\ in. broad, thin, glaucous below; lateral nerves 

 about 5 on eacli side, branched some distance from the margin, distinct 

 below ; petiole about \ lin. long, smooth ; stipules subulate, acute, J lin. 

 long, with slightly jagged margins. Flowers mona-cious, axillary, three 

 or tour males and a solitary female in each leaf-axil. Male flowers: 

 pedicel 2 lin. long, terete, glabrous. Sepals 4 or 5, obovate-elliptic, 

 about I lin. long, \ lin. broad, glabrous, membranous. Disk-glanda 

 4-5, rounded, fleshy, glabrous. Stamens 4-5; filaments quite free; 

 anthers oblong, cells parallel and dehiscing longitudinally. Female 

 flowei-s: pedicel and sepals as in the male. Disk annular, fleshy, 

 slightly undulately lobed between the sepals, glabrous. Ovary globose, 

 smooth; styles 3-5, flat and broad, 2-4-fid, reflexed over the top of the 

 ovary. Capsule about 2 lin. in diam. Seeds much compressed laterally, 

 smooth. — Cluytiandra som^dens^s, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 277, as 

 to EUenbeck. 2193, not description. 



Xrile Xiand. Sonialiland : Galla Highlands ; Boran country, Ellenheck, 2193 ! 



24. P. pentandrus, Sch2im. lO Thonn, Beskr. Guin. PL 419. A ( 

 much-branched herb up to 18 in. high; stem woody, subterete, 



