FlvLggea.] cxxii. euphorbiace.e (hutchinson). 737 



two-thirds their length, terete, reflexed and often thickened in the upper 

 part, a small second lobe often developed at the bend, glabrous. Female 

 flowers numerous. Calyx as in the male. Disk annular, glabrous. 

 Ovary ovoid, glabrous; styles connate at the base, or rarely nearly 

 absent, bilobed, lobes spreading, flattened or subterete. Fruits white, 

 <iepressed-globose, about 2 lin. in diam. ; styles persistent. Seeds shining, 

 with several longitudinal lines of pits on the back and sides. — Hook. f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 828 ; Hiern in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 9G1 ; S. Moore in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 193. F. virosa, Baill. Etude Gen. Euphorb. 51)8. 

 F.ahyssinica, Baill. I.e. F.angulata^ Baill. Adansonia, i. 80. F.oborata, 

 Baill. I.e. ii. 41 ; Pax in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 285, and in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xxviii. 418, xxx. 888 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 291) ; 

 De Wild, tk Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo, i. 48, and lleliq. Dewevr. 

 205; De Wild. Etudes Fl. Katanga, 71); Th. ct Hel. Durand, Syll. Fl. 

 Congol. 488. F. obovata, var. luxurians, Beille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, 

 Iv. Mem. viii. 55. F. senensis, Klotzsch in Peteis, Keise Mossamb. Bot. 

 106. Phyllanthus virosus^ Hoxb. ex Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 578. F. lucidus^ 

 Hort. ex Willd. Enum. PI. Hort. Bot. Beiol. 829. P. anynlatus, 

 Schum. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 415. J\ dioicas, Schum. & Thonn. 

 I.e. 416. P. polygamies, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 256. 

 Xylophylla obovata, Willd. Enum. PI. Hort. Bot. Berol. 329. Secitri- 

 nega abyssinica, A. Rich. I.e. ; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 38. aS'. 

 obovata, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 449 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 

 115. Acidoton obovatus, 0. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. ii. 592. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal, Sieher, 49! Leprieur ! Ferrottet, 750, 761. 

 Sierra Leone: Scott-Elliot ! Gold Coast: Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 86 ! common 

 on plains, Thonning I Brown, 934! Johnson, 1092! Togo: near Lome, Warneche, 

 297 ! Lagos, Foster, 58 ! Millen, 80 ! Phillips, 5 ! Roivland ! Irving, 133 ! 

 Northern Nigeria : Nupe, Barter, 1496 ! Katagum district, Dalziel, 207 ! Southern 

 Nigeria ; Tiediana, Chevalier, 997 ! Cameroons : Sanaga, Zenker, 1454 ! 



irortli Central. Central Shari region : Koulfi, Chevalier, 8911 ! 



Nile land. Eritrea : Bogos, Beccari, 113! Gallabat, Schweinf urth, 908! 

 Abyssinia: various localities. Petit, 204! Schimper, 287! 877! 1698! Sudan: 

 various localities, Muriel, 33! 82! Broun, 1081 ! 1685! Petherick .' Schweinfurth, 

 1094 ! Niamniam, Schweinfurth, 3220 ! 3705 ! Jur, Schweinfurth, 2383 ! Uganda : 

 various localities, Dawe, 80 ! 748 ! Scott-Elliot, 7895 ! British East Africa : 

 various localities, Scott-Elliot, 6731 ! Whyte ! Eildehrandt , 1246b ! 



JaO-wer Guinea. Angola: Loanda; near Forte de Penedo, JFe I witsch, 627 \ 

 €rossioeiler, 363 ! Bumbo; near the base of the Serra da Xella, WelwiAsch, 337 1 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo: near Kabanga, Detohvre ; near Lukafu, 

 Verdick. 



Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar, Kirk, 29 ! Last ! Lyne, 30 ! 58 ! German East 

 Africa : various localities. Hoist, 2020 ! Holtz, 396 ! Goetze, 131 ! 400 ! 650 ! 

 Merker^ 591 ! Portuguese East Africa: Lower Zambesi, Kirk ! Menyharth, Sll ! 

 Gazaland ; various localities, Swynverton, 1719 ! 1727 ! 1728 ! 1729 ! 1730 ! British 

 Central Afi'ica : Rhodesia; Livingstone, Rogers, 7243! Sabi Ylxxer, Siuynnerton, 

 1911! 



2. P. fagifolia. Pax in Engl, Pfl. Ost-Afr, C. 236. A tree 60-70 ft. 

 high ; young branchlets somewhat angular or compressed, glabrous. 



