Phyllanthus] cxv. euphorbiace^. 957 



6. PHYLLANTHUS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 272. 



" Quilendula," pi. " Ilendula," is said to be an annual climbing 

 species of this genus, the leaves of which, mixed with " Dil5a " 

 (a kind of ferruginous river mud), the natives of Angola and 

 Benguella employ as a black dye ; they boil in the mixture 

 the cloth articles which they wish to dye black (Welw. ms.). 

 Compare " Mal6a," ante, p. 378. 



1. P. pentandrus Schum. & Thonn. in Danske Vid. Selsk. iv. 

 p. 193 (1829) {Phylanthus). 



Diasperus pentomdmis 0. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. PL ii. p. 600 (1891). 

 r. p., 8, genv/inus Muell. arg. in DO. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 337 (1866). 

 P. foliis Lini, Hornemann, Ind. PI. Guin. Obs. p. 25 (1819). P. 

 scoparius Welw. Apontam. p. 591, n. 110 (1859). 



LOANDA. — In hot sandy places in short grass near Imbondeiro dos 

 Lobos, rather rare ; fl. and fr. Jan. and Feb. 1858. No. 324. 



PuNGO Andonuo. — In sandy bushy places betweeo Condo and 

 Quiaonde, sporadic ; fl. and fr. March 1857. No. 322. In sandy 

 places close to the river Lombe near Lombe ; fl. and fr. March 1857. 

 No. 323. An annual, erect or suberect, slender herb, 1 to 2 ft. high, 

 branched like a broom ; leaves oblong-linear, subglaucesoent. In sandy 

 places at the river Cuanza ; fl. and fr. March 1857. Coll. Carp. 920. 



2. P. capillaris Schum. & Thonn., I.e., p. 191 (Phylanthus). 

 P, genuinus Muell. arg., I.e., p. 338. 



P. elegans pedicellis capillaribus pendulis, Hornemann, ?.c.,p.25. 

 Diasperus capillaris 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 598. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A prettily green undershrub, IJ to 4 ft. high, 

 with greenish flowers on capillary peduncles. At the outskirts of 

 thickets in moist spots, in an excursion to Fonte de Capopa, not 

 plentiful, fl. and fr. Dec. 1854 ; in wooded moist places about thickets, 

 near Sange, fl. and fr. Dec. 1854 ; also by secondary thickets and at 

 the edges of palm groves, near Bango, fl. and fr. May 1855. No. 336. 



3. P. angolensis Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot. ii. p. 329 (1864), 

 and in DC, I.e., p. 339. 



Diasperus angoleiisis 0. Kuntze, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — In pastures rather dry but flooded in the rainy summer 

 season, among low bushes, between LopoUo and Ferrao da Sola, 

 sparingly ; fl. and fr., Deo. 1859. No. 332. An annual, slender, 

 erectly branched, subglaucous herb, 6 to 8 in. high. In hot wooded 

 places near LopoUo ; fr. Feb. 1860. Coll. Carp. 921. 



4. P. loandensis Welw. ex Muell. arg. in Journ. Bot., I.e., 

 p. 329, and in DC, I.e., p. 342. 



Diasperus loandensis O. Kuntze, I.e., p. 599, 



LoANDA. — An undershrub, woody at the base ; stem erect, 2 to 3 ft. 

 high, branched ; branches virgate, elongated, very slender, erect- 

 spreading. In hilly bushy places on a clay soil behind Penedo, sparingly 

 and seen nowhere else ; fl. and fr. April to June 1858. No. 335. 



5. P. floribundus Muell. arg. in Linnsea, xxxii. p. 14 (1863), 

 and in DO., I.e., p. 343 ; non H. B. & K. 



Kirganelia (Anisonema) florihunda Baill. Adansonia i. p. 83 

 (1860). Diasperus Muellerianus 0. Kuntze, I.e., p. 597. 



