Phyllanthus.'] cxxii. euphorbiace.e (hutchinson). 721 



lanceolate, acuminate, acute, J lin. long, membranous. Flowers monoe- 

 dous, males axillary and geminate in the lower part of the branches, 

 females solitary towards the apex, fewer than the males. Male flowers: 

 Sepals G, sub- 1 -seriate, subequal, oblong, obtuse, 1 -nerved, | lin. long, 

 J lin. broad, membranous towards the margin. Disk-glands G, orbi- 

 cular, thin, smooth. Stamens 3 ; filaments connate to the top ; anthers 

 dehiscing extrorsely. Female flowers : Sepals as in the male, but in 

 2 series, 3 outer, 3 inner. Disk annular, small, entire. Ovary globose, 

 slightly lobed, glabrous ; styles free to the base, erect, bifid ; stigmas 

 capitate, globose. Capsule depressed -globose, nearly 2 lin. in diam. ; 

 seeds laterally compressed, convex on the back, | lin. long, closely longi- 

 tudinally striate with about 20 lines on the back. — Miill. Arg. in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 361 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. AVelw. i. 9.59 ; Pax in Baum, 

 Kunene-Samb. Exped, 281. Diasperus ])rosi7'atus, O. Kuntze, Rev. 

 Gen. PI. ii. GOO. 



l^o'wer Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Empalaiica, in the liOpollo country, 

 Welwitsch, 333! by the Longa River, above Miiniesera, 4160 ft., Baum, 686! near 

 the Mission Station, Massaca Luelai, QosswHler, 2683 ! 2688 ! 



44. P. Urinaria, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 982. An annual about 

 D-12 in. high ; stem somewhat woody at the base, longitudinally 

 sulcate, subtei'ete, about 1 lin. in diam., glabrous ; flowering branchlets 

 ascending, about 2 in. long, compressed and narrowly winged, wings 

 asperulate or ciliolate. Leaves oblong, shortly pointed and minutely 

 mucronate, rounded and slightly unequal -sided at the base, J- J in. 

 long, 1-2 lin. broad, membranous, dark green above, glaucous below, 

 glabrous on both surfaces, margins asperulate or minutely ciliolate ; 

 lateral nerves about 5 on each side, slender, spreading, looped close 

 to the margin, scarcely visible on the upper surface, more distinct on 

 the lower ; petiole very short and compressed, glabrous ; stipules broad 

 and auricuiate at the base, narrowed into a filiform point, about £ lin. 

 long. Flowers monoecious, solitary and subsessiie, males in the upper 

 third, females in the lower two-thirds of the branchlets. Male 

 flowers very small : Sepals 6, elliptic, subacute, glabrous. Disk-glands 

 G, very small. Stamens 3; filaments connate, very short; anthers 

 subparallel, connate, dehiscence longitudinal. Female flowers : Sepals 6, 

 J lin. long, 1 -nerved, margins membranous. Disk saucer-shaped, thin, 

 crenuiately lobed. Ovary depressed -globose, densely covered with 

 conspicuous warts ; persistent sepals reflexed ; styles very short, 

 spreading, bifid. Seeds with about 10 prominent transverse ribs 

 on the back. — Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. G60 ; Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 

 :^,G4; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 310, nnd Fl. Austral, vi. 102; Hook. f. Fl. 

 r5rit: Ind. v. 293. P. leprocarpus, Wight, Ic. t. 1895, fig. 4. Diasperus 

 (Trinaria, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 601. — Tjeru-kirganeli, Rheede, 

 liort. Malab. x. t. IG. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : open places on augite rocks near Regent, 

 Scott-Elliot, 4102 ! 



A common tropical weed, hnt apparently very rare in Africa. 

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