Fhi/llanthiAs.] cxxii. KUPHORBiACEiE (hutchinson). 711 



glabrous; flowering branchlets very slender, more or less flexuous, 

 glabrous or very minutely and sparingly asperulate. Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, subacute, usually obtuse at the base, up 

 to I in. long and J in. broad, thin, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral 

 nerves about 5 on each side, slightly prominent below ; petiole about 

 J lin. long, glabrous ; stipules lanceolate, tapered into a fine point, 

 J lin. long, glabrous. Flowers monoecious, males 2-3 together in the 

 axils of the lower leaves, females solitary in the upper leaves of the 

 branchlets; pedicel slender, short, glabrous. Male flowers: Sepals 5, ovate 

 or elliptic, subacute, small, broadly 1-nerved, membranous towards the 

 margin, glabrous. Disk-glands 5, flat, smooth and thin. Stamens 5 ; 

 filaments free ; anthers dehiscing at the side. Female flowers : Sepals 

 as in the male. Disk flat, entire, glabrous. Ovary lobed, minutely 

 beaded ; styles spreading horizontally, very short, bifid. Capsule 

 depressed-globose, about 1 lin. in diam., scarcely lobed. Seeds marked 

 with 5-6 longitudinal lines of dots on the back. — Miill. Arg. in DO. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 336 (incl. vars.) ; Hiern in Oat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 957 ; 

 Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 0. 236 ; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Ba«- et Moyen- 

 Congo, i. 275. /*. piluliferus, Fenzl in Flora, 1844, 312, name only; 

 Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, 510. P. llnoides^ Hochst. ex Baill. 

 Adansonia, i. «4, name only. P. linifolius, Vahl ex Baill. I.e., name only. 

 P. dejlexus^ Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 104. P. dilatatus, 

 Klotzsch, I.e. 106. P. scoparius, Welw. Apont. 51)1, No. 110. P. 

 tenellus, var.. Pax in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 282, not of Roxb. ; 

 P. iViruri, N. E. Br. in Kew Bulletin, 11)09, 139, not of Linn. Menarda 

 linifolia, Baill. I.e., name only. Diasperus pentandrus^ O. Kuntze, 

 Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 600. 



Upper Ouinea. Seiiegambia, Heudelot, 466 ! Leprieur ! Richard • 

 Lelievre! Perrottet! Dahomey, Burton ! Newton, 7! Gold Coast: Abnri, Anderson, 2 

 ChristiHnsborg, Thonning ! Togo : near Louie, Wurnecke, 2 ! Lagos : interior, 

 Rowland! Wvha VLoaA, Benton, 2\\ Northern Nigeria: 'i^\x\)e, Barter ! Lokoja, 

 Parsons, 2Q\ Kiitaguin district, 2>a/zieZ, 206! Southern Nigeria: Stirling Hill, 

 on tlie Niger, Vogel, 136 ! Cameroons : Garua, Ledermann, 4497 ! 



Xrile Xiand. Kordofun : Ral)ad,^row»,874 ! Oheid, Kotscki/, 30i \ Araschkol 

 Mountain, Kotschy, 89! Pfuad,9l Umsiitt, Pfund, 382! Takari, Pfund, 380! 

 Ethiopia: Kotschy, 1\5\ 



&ower Guinea. French Congo : Loango, Soyaur, 192 Lower Consjo : 

 between the Kwango River and Kisantu, Bilttner. Angola: Loanda, Welivilsch, 324! 

 Gossweiler, 380! Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, Z22\ 323! On the Longa Kiver 

 near Napalanka, Baum, 584 ! German South West Africa : Oknhandya, Dinter ! 



Mozamb. Slstr* Portuguese East Africa : Lower Zambesi ; near Sena, 

 Kirk! Peters! Tete, Pet-rs! Moi-ambala Mountain, Scott! Mozambique, 

 Rodrigues de Cavalho ! British Central Africa: Nyjisaland ; various localities, 

 Whyte! McClounie, 48! Buchanan, 909! Kh.»de<ia; various localities, A'o/Af, 

 3175! Rogers, 7166! 8275! Ngamiland; Kwebe Hills, Lugard, 155! Mrs. 

 Lugard, 80 ! 



Occurs also in South Africa. 



P. dejlexus and P, dilatatus from Sena were described as having only 3 stamens 

 joined at the base. By the courtesy of Prof. Engler 1 have been able to examine 

 the types of these species, and both have 5 siamcns an in t} pical P. peulandrus. 



