732 cxxii. EUPHOHBiACEiE (hutchinson). [Phyllanthus. 



1-nerved, membranous. Disk-glands 6, slightly wrinkled or warted. 

 Stamens 3 ; filaments connate to near the top ; anthers dehiscing at the 

 side. Female flowers : Sepals larger than those of the male, ovate, with a 

 broad midrib. Disk cronulate, small. Ovary depressed-globose, glabrous ; 

 styles distinct, spreading, bifid. Seeds marked with about 7 longitu- 

 dinal lines on the back. — Miill. Arg. in Linnaea, ixxii. 43, and in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. ii. 405, exel. var. leucocalijx, Miill. Arg. ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. 

 Ost-Afr. C. 236 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 303, and 

 in Hohnel, Disc. Lakes Rudolf and Stephanie, ed. Engl. ii. 355 ; 

 Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Genova, 18D2, 360. F. Niruri, Wall. Cat. 

 7H95A, partly, not of Linn. P. scahrellus, Webb ex Hook. Niger Flora^ 

 175; J. A. Schmidt, Beitr. Flora Cap. Verd. Ins. 301). IJiasperns 

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



wile Xiand. Nubia : coast region, Bent ! Eritrea : Mount Bosco, near 

 Saati, Schiveinfurlh, 568! Sonialiland : Lort- Phillips I Cole! Drake- Brochman, 

 178 ! 



Occurs also in Cape Verde Islands, Arabia, and India. 



03. P. parvus, Hutchinson in Kev^ Bulletin, I'ill, 310. A small 

 annual about 5 in. high; stem slender, terete, reddish, glabrous ; flower- 

 ing branchlets up to IJ in. long, subterete, glabrous. Leaves linear, sub- 

 acute, 4-5 lin. long, $-li lin. broad, membranous, green above, light 

 reddish-green below, margins recurved and reddish ; petiole very short ; 

 stipules subulate or almost filiform, J lin. long, entire. Flowers 

 monoecious, axillary, females solitary in the upper two-thirds of the 

 branchlets, males 2-3 together in the lower third ; pedicel short. Male 

 flowers very small : Sepals 5, obovate, entire, glabrous. Disk-glands 5, 

 small, rounded, nearly smooth. Stamens 2 ; filaments connate to the 

 apex ; anthers dehiscing at the side. Female flowers : Sepals 5, in a 

 single series, oblanceolate, acute, about | lin. long, with a broad green 

 midrib, margins membranous and serrulate, glabrous. Disk saucer- 

 shaped, thin, slightly undulately lobed, glabrous. Ovary subglobose, 

 slightly lobed, smooth ; styles short, spreading in a stellate manner 

 over the top of the ovary, bifid ; stigmas not swollen. Capsule 

 depressed-globose, 1 lin. in diam. Seeds smooth on the back. 



Mozamb. Dlstr. (lernian East Africa: between Lakes Tanganyika and 

 Kukwa, at about 6000 ft., Nutf I 



04. P. diandrus, Pax in Engl. JaJirh. xxxiii. 270. A shrub about 

 10 ft. high ; young branchlets narrowly winged, glabrous. Leave* 

 oblong or elliptic- oblong, caudate-acuminate, shortly cuneate at the 

 base, 2-5 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, entire, rather rigidly and thinly 

 chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces ; lateral nerves 0-7 on each side^ 

 prominent on both surfaces, especially below, strongly looped well within 

 the margin, forming a wavy intramarginal nerve ; veins very few^ 

 distinct below ; petiole about 1 lin. long, wrinkled ; stipules triangular, 

 acute, auriculate at the base, f lin. long and broad, glabrous. Flowers 

 difecious, males numerous in each fascicle, females solitary in each leaf- 

 axil. Male pedicel slender, up to 2 lin. long, glabrous: Sepals 6, 



