583 



Phyllanthus floribundus, Miill. Arg. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. 



Sect. 1, p. 701. 



Veniac. names .—ATunyemn (Lagos, MacGregor) ; Majiriyar 

 Kurumi (Hausa, Kano, &c. Dalziel). 



Lagos, Nupe, Zungeru in Nigeria and widely distributed in 

 Upper Guinea— Senegambia to the Cameroons, and extending to 

 the Mozambique region on the East. 



Herb 



(M. 



A trailing thorny shrub or climber up to 30 ft. high. 



PhyUaathus Nimri, Linn. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, p. 731. 



/Z/.— Rheede, Hort. Mai. x. t. 15 (" Kirgandi ") ; Rumpf 

 Amb. ri. t. 17; Martyn, Hist. PI. Rar. t. 8; Burman, Thes. 

 Zeyl. t. 93, f. 2 {Urinaria indica); Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Or v 

 t. 1894 (P. Nirure) ; Bettfreund, Fl. Argent, ii. t. 84. 



Vernac. 7iame5.— Aijlaun-mahaij (Java, Filet) ; Herbe an 

 chagrin (Mauritius, Seychelles, Gerth van WijJc) ; Erva poubinha, 

 Yerba de quinino (Spanish, Aniadeo in Merck, Ann. Rep Jan' 

 1893, p. 103). 



" The decoction of the root and leaves is very bitter and is 

 a favourite remedy among the natives of Porto Rico for the 

 cure of intermittent fevers." "The infusion of the root and 

 leaves is a good tonic and a diuretic, when taken cold in repeated 

 doses" (Pharm. Journ. [3] xviii. April 28th, 1888, p. 906— 



by Dr. Amadeo) 



Med 



Nupe — a weed in cultivated ground (Barter) and a common 

 weed in the Tropics ; small plant found along roads, particularly 

 during the rainy season, Porto Rico (Amadeo, I.e.). 



PhyUanthus pentandras, Schum. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI Sect 1 



p. 710. ■ ' 



Vernac. names.— Ehin olobe (L&gos,Dawodu) ; Geron Tsuntsaye 

 (Hausa, Dalziel). 



Lagos, Nupe, Lokoja, Katagum, in Nigeria and widely 

 distributed in Tropical Africa ; also in South Africa. 



Used medicinally in Lagos (Dawodu, Herb, and Mus. Kew). 



small 



Hausa 



growing shrubby plant with minute 



Herb. Kew) 



railway track, flowers white, Victoria Falls (Kolbe, Herb. Kew), 



Afr 



grass, Loanda (Hi 



Phyllanthus reticulatus. Pair.: Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, 



p. 700. 



/?/.— Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 116; Wight Ic. t. 1899 {Anisonema 

 muUiflorum) ; Jussieu, Euph. t. 4, f . 11 {Aniso7iema reticulatum) ; 

 Talbot, For. Fl. Bombay, ii. p. 440, f. 490. 



