722 cxxii. EUPHOUbiACEiK (hutcuixson). [Phyllanthvs, 



45. P. maderaspatensis, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 982. A woody 

 undershrub, very variable in habit; tiowering branchlets sharply 

 angular, almost winged or variously compressed, glabrous or minutely 

 asperulate. Leaves linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, variable in size, 

 up to 1 J in. long and J in. broad, rather rigidly membranous or thinly 

 chartaceous, glabrous or slightly asperulate ; lateral nerves about 7 on 

 each side, usually prominent below ; petiole short, glabrous ; stipules 

 lanceolate, acuminate, broad and auriculate at the base, nearly 1^ lin. 

 long, J lin. broad at the base, membranous and often purplish, glabrous^ 

 Male and female flowers sometimes together in the leaf-axils, or the 

 females more often solitary, much larger than the males ; pedicel 

 about 1 lin. long. IVIale flowers : Sepals 0, oblong-lanceolate, f lin. long,, 

 very thin and membranous, glabrous. Disk-glands G, very thin and 

 smooth, flat. Stamens 3 ; filaments connate ; anthers dehiscing longi- 

 tudinally. Female flowers: Sepals (5, 2-seriate, 3 outer ovate-elliptic or 

 rounded, slightly apiculate, 1 lin. long, j lin. broad, coriaceous, glabrou.«v 

 I> inner slightly narrower, with a narrow membranous margin. Disk of 

 G se[>arate flat thin glands. Ovaiy lobed ; styles 3, distinct, suberect, 

 thick, bifid. Capsule depressed-globose, IJ lin. in diam., 3-lobed, 

 smooth. Seeds trigonous, convex on the back, | lin. long and broad, 

 and marked with 9-10 fine lines of dots on the back, — Willd. Sp. PL 

 iv. :)7r»; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. G:)4; Grab. Cat. Bomb. PI. ISO; Wight, 

 Ic. t. 1895, fig. 3; Dalz. .^^ Gibs. Bomb. Pi. 233; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 

 311, and Fl. Austral, vi. KKi; Miill. Arg. in Linnfea, xxxii. 19, and in 

 DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 3G2 ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 37; Oliv. in. 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 349; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 292; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. India, vi. i. 221 ; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. 

 Genova, 1S!)2, 3G() ; Pax in Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 282, and 

 in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 23G ; Trim. Handb. Fl. Ceylon, iv. 20; 

 Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 304 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. 

 PI. Welw. i. 959 ; Prain, Bengal PI. 935 ; Cooke, Fl. Bombay, ii. 586 : 

 S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 192. P. andrachnoides, Willd, Sp. 

 PI. iv, 575. P. cuneatus, Willd. Enum, PI, Horfc. Bot. Berol. Suppl. G5.. 

 ]\ Thonniiu/ii, Schum. tt Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 4 IS. P. javaniaiSy. 

 Poir ex Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 21. P. gracilis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 654. 

 J\ ohcordatns, Willd. ex Roxb. I.e. G5G. P. lonyifolius, Sond. in 

 Linnsea, xxiii, 135, not of Lam. P. venosuSf Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent» 

 Fl. Abyss, ii, 254; Schweinf, Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 37. P. arahicusj 

 Hochst, ex Baill. Adansonia, i. >i(). P. vaccinioides, Klotzsch in Peters,. 

 Reise Mossainb. Bot. 105, not of Sond. Diasperus maderaspatensis, 

 O, Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 600. 



Upper Guinea, (xokl Coast : Cliristiansborg-, TAohmiw^ .' Canicrooiis: Duli^ 

 Ledermann, 4440 ! 



IVorth Central, liagirrai : north of Dar-el-Hadjer and Dagana, Chevalier r 

 9867! 



irile Xiand. Nubia : between Suakin and Berber, Schweinfurth, 303 ! coast- 

 region. Bent! and without precise locality, JTochstetfer ! Eritrea: Kavi^w, Steudner, 

 549! To^o^eXe, Ehrenherg ! }lKh9.h, Hildebrandf, &12\ G&XahvLt, Schweinfurth, 

 910! 912! 913! 915! Abyssinia: Haniedo Plain, Schimper, 191! 199! near 



