Phyllanthus,'] cxxii. EuniORRiACE.E (iiutciiixson). 717 



Male flowers: Sepals T), 1-seriate, obovate-spathulate, rounded at the 

 apex, 1 lin. long, | lin. broad, membranous, midrib very faint and. 

 slender. Disk-glands T), thin, rounded, smooth. Stamens 3 ; lilHments 

 connate to the top ; anther-cells distinct, dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Female flowers: Sepals f), much larger than those of the male, broadly 

 elHptic, 2 lin. long, 1 J lin. broad, with a very faint median nerve and 

 several branching side nerves. Disk very large and supporting the 

 stipitate ovary, about 1^ lin, high, vertically sulcateor wrinkled. Ovary 

 stipitate on the top of the disk, rather deeply lobed, glabrous; styles free 

 almost to the base, bilobed, lobes slightly recurved and obtuse. Capsule 

 depressed-globose, about 2 lin. in diam., enclosed by the persistent 

 sepals. Seeds with about 15 longitudinal lines on the back, 1^ lin. 

 long, J lin, broad. — Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. ;^5'.); Hiern in 

 Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 951). P.Antunesii, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 519. 

 DiaspeiiLs niicrodendron, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. GOO. 



lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla ; ■.nnong- low buslies in moist ])laoes between 

 Neno and Ix^pollo, Welwitsch^ 334 ! and witliont precise locality, Antunet, 15G ! 



3G. p. amarus, Schum. d- Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 421. A herb 

 about 1 ft. high ; stem woody at the base, terete, glabrous ; flowering 

 branchlets spreading, slender, up to 5 J in. long, terete, glabrous. Leaves 

 oblong or elliptic, rounded or almost truncate at both ends, '2-^ lin. 

 long, l-o lin. broad, thin, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 4-5 

 on each side, slender and not at all conspicuous; petiole very short ; 

 stipules subulate-filiform, scarcely ^ lin. long. Flowers monoecious, one 

 male and one female in each leaf-axil ; pedicel short. Male flowers : 

 Sepals 5, ovate, 1-nerved, very small. Disk- glands small. Stamens 3 ; 

 filaments connate ; anthers small. Female flowers : Sepals 5, larger than 

 those of the male. Disk 5-lobed, thin. Ovary smooth ; styles very 

 short, bifid. Capsule depressed-globose, trilobed, smooth. Seeds with 

 about 5 longitudinal lines on the back, — P. Niritri, var. dehills, Miill. 

 Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 407, partly. P. niruroides, Stapf in Johnston, 

 Liberia, ii. 648, not of Miill. Arg. P. odontadenhis^ var. ramosa, Beille 

 in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iv. Mem. viii. 5G. P. Chevcdieri, var., Beille, 

 I.e. 57 (not the type). P. Niruriy var. ndellensis, Beille, l.c, and var. 

 genuinns, Beille, l.c. 58, partly, not of Miill. Arg. 



Upper Guinea. Liberia: Monrovia find Sinoe li;isin, Whyte '. Ivory 

 Coast: liingerville. Chevalier, \^^2Z\ Gold Const : frequent, Thonning ! Accra, 

 Molonetf ! Togo : Sokode, Schroder, 61 ! Lagos : Dobisowo, Datvodu, 24 ! 365 ! 

 Eyinolobe, M'icGregor, 365! Soiuliern Nigeria: Att<ih (Idda), Vogel ! Old 

 Calabar, Milne I Fernando Po, Vogel ! 



ITortb Central. Upper Ubiingi River, Chevalier, 5668 ! Lake Iro region. 

 Chevalier, 8795! Korbo, soutb of Bagirmi, Chevalier, 8326! Krebedje (Fort 

 Sibut), Chevalier, 5668 ! 5687 ! 



Xile Kand. Jnr: Jur Ghattas, -ScAwem/j^rM, 2063 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Loango, Soyaux, 199 ! Lower Congo, Burton ! 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa: Tangn, Hoist, 2070! Amboni, 

 Hoist, 2770 ! 



