Phyllanthus EUPHORBIACEiK 263 



elongatus) the terminal portion becomes (especially in cultivated speci- 

 mens) much elongated (to 2 dm. 1.) and broader than below (to 3"5 

 mm. br.), bearing flowers. Flowering branches lanceolate, linear-lanceo- 

 late, strap-shaped but narrowed to both ends, to oblanceolate, straight or 

 slightly curved, with blunt or acuminate apex, usually 9-5 cm, 1., 

 11-4 mm. br. ; notches 5-7(-9) on each side, distant, few below the middle, 

 truncate, with conspicuous cushions ; veins irregularly unequal, close 

 together. Pedicels 2-4. Sepals 6, outer elliptical with brownish apex, 

 about 1 mm. 1., inner rhomboid or broadly- elliptical, about l*3(-l-6) 

 mm. 1. Disk of male flower, of 6 subsessile, roundish, concave glands ; of 

 female flower saucer-shaped, 6-lobed, the lobes often irregular, rarely 

 scarcely united below. Capsule globular, 4-4*5 mm. in diam. 



After an examination of a fragment of the type of Xylophylla contorta 

 Britton (Bull, Torr. Bot. Club, xxxvii. 353 (1910) ) kindly sent by Dr. 

 Britton, we are unable in the absence of flowers to separate it from the 

 above species, 



17, P. latifolius Sw. Fl Ind. Occ. 1109 (1800); pedicels 



2 mm, 1. to shorter than sepals; sepals '5-1 mm, 1. ; filaments 



3 (2-1), united to middle or beyond, free above; anthers united 

 at the back ; disk of female flower of minute separate glands ; 

 styles 3, united in lower half, free above, erect, branches 2-3(-5) 

 cleft, recurved, — Griseh. loc. cit. P. isolepis Urh. Symh. Ant. Hi. 

 290 (1902) ; Pluh. Phyt. t. 36, /. 7. Lonchitidi affinis &c, 

 (including the variety) Sloane Hist. i. 80. P, foliis latioribus &c, 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 188, Xylophylla latifolia L. Mant. 221 (1771) ; 

 Sw. Prodr. 28 (1788) & Obs. Bot. 113 (1791), Specimen named 

 by Swartz in Herb, Mus. Brit, Specimen apparently from 

 Browne in Herb, Linn, named Phyllanthus Epiphyllanihus in 

 Solander's hand, 



Sloane Herb, i, 62 ! Liguanea, Barham in Herb. Sloane clxii, 285 ! 

 Shakspear ! Masson 1 McNab I Healthshire Hills, Purdie ! March ! Port 

 Antonio, Hitchcock ; Ferry Pen, 150 ft., Ca7tipbell\ Long Mountain, west, 

 800 ft. ; Cane R. valley, 250-400 ft. ; Harris 1 Healthshire Hills, Harris d 

 Brittonl Fl, Jam, 6280, 8843 (8845, 9334, 9339 without flowers), 9631, 

 10,065, 10,523. Fl. Jam, 10,523 matches a specimen from Masson named 

 Xylophylla latifolia by Swartz in Herb. Mus. Brit. McNab's specimen in 

 Herb. Edinburgh is named P. latifolius in Grisebach's handwriting. 



Shrub or small tree to 10 or 12 ft. high. Bark ash-coloured, soon 

 becoming roughish, with conspicuous scars. Scaly cone at apex of 

 branches broader than branch. Scale leaves and stipules narrowly tri- 

 angular, acuminate, or linear-acuminate on young twigs, 3-8 mm. 1. 

 Penultimate branches slightly notched, 1-2 dm, 1., 1 '5-2 mm, br. Flowering 

 branches in two vertical rows, rhomboid, rhomboid-lanceolate, or oblanceo- 

 late, generally acuminate at both ends, 5-8 (3*5-8*5) cm. 1., 1-2*5 cm. br. ; 

 notches 10-16(-19) on each side, generally above the middle, dense, with 

 prominent cushions formed by bracteoles of several flowers, striated by 

 the principal, somewhat distant veins. Flowers red, several, sometimes 

 numerous. Male flowers : Sepals 6 (or 5), unequal, outer generally linear- 

 oblong to obovate, apex brownish, *5-*7 mm, 1,, inner obovate or sub- 

 rhomboid, *8-l mm. 1, Disk of 6 shortly stalked glands. Sepals of 

 female flowers like those of male. Capsule globular, base truncate or 

 slightly lioUowed, brownish, 2*5-3 mm. in diam., 2 mm. 1. Seeds about 

 1*7 mm, 1,, brovmish. 



