728 cxxii. EUPHORBiACE^ (hutciuxson). [Phyllanihus, 



Var. Braunii, Hutchinson. Flowers much smaller than those of the type. — 

 P. Braunii, Piix in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 525. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : cultivated at the Berlin Botanic Garden from 

 seeds sent by Braun ! 



Pax described in De Wild. &. Durand's Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 48, a variety 

 micranthus with small flowers, of which I have not seen a specimen. It may be 

 identical with var. Braunii. 



55. P. leucanthtis, Pax in Enyl. Jahrb. xv. 524. An annual 

 glabrous herb ; stem slightly angular or very narrowly winged, smooth ; 

 flowering branchlets spreading, up to 5 in. long, narrowly winged, wings 

 very minutely toothed or asperulate. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic^ 

 obtusely pointed, narrowed or rounded at the base, ^-1 in. long, J-j in. 

 broad, thinly membranous, glaucous on the lower side ; lateral nerves 

 about 9 on each side, spreading, looped near the margin, slightly promi- 

 nent on the lower surface ; petiole \ lin. long; stipules subulate or subu- 

 late-lanceolate, a little longer than the petiole. Flowers monuecious, 

 males small ahd 2 or ?> together in the lower part of the branchlets, 

 females larger and solitary, shortly pedicellate. Male flowers: Sepals 6, 

 oblanceolate, \ lin. long, narrowly 1-nerved, membranous. Disk-glands 6, 

 small, slightly warted. Stamens '^> ; filaments connate for about three- 

 quarters of their length, free at the top; anthers dehiscing longitudi- 

 nally. Female flowers: Sepals 0, sub- 1 -seriate, obovate, \\ lin. long. 

 Disk slightly r)-lobed, but not crenate, ovary shortly stipitate, subglobose, 

 scarcely lobed, smooth ; styles free to the base, linear, slender, spreading 

 over the top of the ovary, bilobed, lobes not swollen at the tips. Capsule 

 hardly lobed, 1^ lin. in diam. Seeds marked with 6 lines on the back. 

 —Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 23(;. 



irile Ziand. Abyssinia: without precise locality, Qnartin-DiUon S( Petit! 

 Schimper, 659 ! 



Soutb Central. Bel<rian Ci>ngO! Kantu, A7/*.vh6>;-, 2405 ! 



XHozamb. Distr. (iennan Kast Afiica : banks of the Wala liivernear Taboi-a, 

 Buhm,^'i\ rsnuihara ; \\\\\\\\a\\\, Meinhof, 1\\ ]\\\?i\, Eick, \r>Q\ British C«'ntral 

 Africa: Nyasaland ; Masuku Plateau, 6500-7000 ft., Whyte ! Manganja Uills^ 

 Waller ! and without precise locality, Biichanaii, 879 ! 



5G. P. Rivae, Pa.i: in Ann. Istit, Bot. L'ojna, vi. 182. Stems woody, 

 quadrangular, puberulous between the angles ; flowering branchlets 

 spreading, up to 3^ in. long, angular, glabrescent or minutely puberu- 

 lous. Leaves elliptic, obtuse at both ends, 2J-3 lin. long, lJ-2 lin. 

 broad, somewhat membranous, glabrescent ; lateral nerves about 4 on 

 each side, a little prominent below ; petiole about ^ lin. long; stipules 

 subulate-lanceolate, about twice the length of the petiole. Flowers 

 monoecious, males small, 2 or o together in the axils of the lowermost 

 leaves, females much larger, solitary, and more numerous than the 

 males; pedicel short. Male flowers: Sepals G, in 2 series, the outer 

 ovate, I lin. long, J lin. broad, the inner narrower, all 1-nerved, mem- 

 branous and white. Disk-glands 6, flat, rounded, conspicuously warted. 

 Stamens 3 ; filaments connate to the top ; anthers dehiscing at the side. 

 Female flowers : Sepals 6, in 2 distinct series, the outer broadly ovate, 



