JPh/llanthzis.] cxxii. euphorbiace.e (hutchinson). 731 



Seeds laterally compressed, convex on the back, marked with several 

 longitudinal lines. 



Mozamb. Blstr. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 5500 ft., 

 Vol/cem; 768 ! 



61. P. Niruri, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 081. An annual herb about 1 ft. 

 high ; stem closely sulcate, smooth ; flowering branchlets up to 4 in. 

 long, compressed or slightly winged, smooth or nearly so. Leaves 

 oblong or oblong-elliptic, rounded at both ends, 3-6 lin. long, 1 J-3 lin. 

 broad, membranous, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves about 5 

 on each side, sometimes nearly invisible ; petiole very short ; stipules 

 lanceolate - subulate, membranous, glabrous. Flowers moncecious, 

 solitary, males in the lower, females in the upper parts of the 

 branchlets ; female pedicel about | lin. long when in fruit, glabrous. 

 Male flowers : Sepals 6, small, 1 -nerved with membranous margins. 

 Disk-glands 6, small. Stamens » ; filaments connate. Female flowers : 

 Sepals 6, larger than in the male. Disk thin and flat, about 10-toothed. 

 Ovary subglobose, smooth ; styles very short, suberect, bifid. Capsule 

 depressed -globose, more or less trilobed, about Ij lin. in diam. Seeds 

 with about 6 lines on the back. — Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 583 ; Miill. Arg. in 

 Linnaea, xxxii. 43, and in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 406 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 659 ; 

 Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 208 ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 236, in 

 Bolet. Soc. Brot. x. 157, and in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxvii. 103; 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 37 ; Trim. Handb. Fl. Ceylon, iv. 23 ; 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. AVelw. i. 060; De Wild. &. Durand, Contr. Fl. 

 Congo, i. 48, and Reliq. Dewevr. 204 ; De Wild. Miss. E. Laurent, 127, 

 and Etudes F\. Bas- et Moyen-Congo, ii. 266 ; Rendle in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xxxvii. 210; Gibbs, I.e. 460; Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, Iv. 

 Mem. viii. 57, partly. Urina7na hidica^ Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 93, fig. 2. 

 Nymphanthus Xiruri, Lour. Fl. Coch. 545. Diasperus Nirurl, 0. Kuntze, 

 Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 600. — Kirganeli, Rheede, Hort. Malab. x. t. 15. 



Upper Guinea. Thonning. Senegambia: Perrottet. Nortliern Nigeria: 

 Nupe, a weed in cultivated ground. Barter, 825 ! 



Xfortb Central. VV^adai : Koulfe, Chevalier, 8858 bis ! 



ITlle Z.and. Kordofan: Arashkol Mountain, Kotschy, 115! Ethiopia, 

 Kotschy, 92 ! Uganda: near Mulema, Bagshaioe, 351. 



Mozamb. Distr. Portuguese Kast Africa : near Shupangn, Kirk ! Britisli 

 Central Africa: Nyasaland ; between Kondowe and Karong>i, Whyte ! Rhodesia; 

 Matoppo Hills, Gibbs, 314. 



A weed widely spread in the tropics. 



'o'l. P. rotundifolius, Klein ex Willd, Sp. PI. iv. 584. An annual 

 herb about 1 ft. high ; stems and branches usually angular and asperu- 

 late ; flowering branchlets spreading or drooping, up to 3 in. long, 

 asperulate. Leaves rounded -obovate, cuneate or slightly rounded at the 

 base, 2-5 lin. long, lJ-4 lin. broad, membranous or slightly chartaceous, 

 glabrous on both surfaces ; petiole short, glabrous ; stipules subulate- 

 lanceolate, J lin. long. Flowers monoecious, 2 or 3 males and 1 female 

 together in each leaf-axil, shortly pedicellate. Male flowers : Sepals 6, 



