720 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE.E (iiutciiinson). [Phyllanthus . 



stipules lanceolate, very acute, J lin. long, brownish and somewhat mem- 

 branous. Flowers dioecious, solitary or subsolitary ; pedicel very short. 

 Male flowers : Sepals 6, sub-1 -seriate, obovate, subacute, § lin. long, with 

 a very broad green median portion, margins membranous and trans- 

 parent, glabrous. Disk-glands G, contiguous, rounded, flattened, with 

 a few fairly prominent warts on the upper surface. Stamens :> ; fila- 

 ments connate to the top ; anthers dehiscing obliquely or nearly tran>- 

 versely. Female flowers : Sepals larger than those of the male, 1 -seriate, 

 I lin. long, § lin. broad. Disk saucer-shaped, fleshy, slightly crenulate. 

 Ovary globose, lobed, glabrous ; styles stout, spreading, free almost to 

 the base ; stigmas swollen and slightly bifid. Capsule depressed -globose, 

 slightly 3-lobed, smooth. Seeds with about fine close lines on the 

 back. 



iMO-wer Guinea. Gentiah South-west Africa: bet\ve»>n Okahamlyii and 

 Swakopimuid and at Willu'hustal, 4000 i'i., Dinfer, 213! OkannnattMU, Dintet\ 

 137C ! Omburo, Dinter, 1395 ! 



42. P. suffrutescens. Pax in Engl. JaJirh. xv. r)23. An under- 

 shrub ; stems arising from a woody rhizome, about (U in. long, deeply 

 sulcate or angular, glabrous ; floweiing branchlets up to 3 in. long, com- 

 pressed, glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or linear-oblong, obtuse at both 

 ends, rarely mucronate at the apex, \-\ in. long, l-o lin. broad, thinly 

 chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; lateial nerves o-4 on eacli 

 side, not visible above, slightly raised below ; veins not evident ; petiole 

 short ; stipules lanceolate, entire. Flowers dia^cious (or at least the 

 male and female on separate shoots), axillary, solitary, shortly pedi- 

 cellate. Male flowers: Sepals H, oblong-elliptic, 1-nerved. Disk-glands (), 

 fleshy, rounded, nearly smooth. Stamens ;» ; filaments connate their 

 full length ; anthers gubconnate, cells subparallel and dehiscing longi- 

 tudinally. Female flowers: Sepals (5, in two distinct series, the outer 

 3 ovate, subcordate at the base, 1 lin. long, § lin. broad, the inner 

 3 oblong-oblanceolate, all obtuse and with a rather broad green midrib. 

 Disk thick and fleshy, supporting the ovary, slightly wrinkled, glabrous. 

 Ovary 6-lobed, smooth ; styles connate at the base, j^uberect. shortly 

 bilobed, lobes terete. Fruit not seen. — Pax in Engl. Pfi. 0>t-Afr. 

 C. 23G. 



IVlle Iband. British East Africa: Ukaniha ; Kitni, Ilildehraudi, 2002! 

 Uganda : Naiidi, Scoff -Elliot, 7047 ! 



Mozamb. Distr. Gerniiin East Africa: Urniu'ii ; hills near the Knvnvu 

 River, Scott-EUiot, 8158 ! 



43. P. prostratus, Welw. e^v.MiiU. Arg.inJoum. Hot. 18G4, o3<>. A 

 perennial herb or small shrub ; rootstock thick : stems and branches 

 numerous, prostrate or ascending, with the habit of some species of 

 Polygonum; flowering branches up to 1| in. long, subterete, glabrous. 

 Leaves elliptic, produced into a sharp spinescent apex, slightly narrowed 

 to the base, 2-3 lin. long, 1-1 i lin. broad, rather thick and coriaceous, 

 with reddish and slightly thickened margins, no evident midrib or 

 nerves, glabrous on both surfaces ; petiole J lin. long, glabrous ; stipules 



