42 EUPHORBIACE^. 



56. C. hirtus, L'ller. Annual, herbaceous, hispid; /eaves ovate-roundish or ovate, 

 blunt, doubly crenate, canescent beneath ; segments of the ? calyx unequal, lanceolate, 4-3 

 as long as the globose capsule, 1-2 smaller ; seeds oval-roundish : caruncle sessile. — L'Her. 

 Siirp. 1. t. 9. Braehystachys, Kl. — Styles often more deeply bifid than in the preceding ; 

 seeds \\ m long, shining, obsoletely striated. — Hab. Jamaica !, Al. ; Trinidad !, Schach, Or., 

 in fields; [New Granada! and Venezuela ! to Brazil!]. 



Sect. 7. AstrjEA. — Stamens 12-15. Styles 3-8-fid : branches simple. Seeds verrucose ! , 

 oblong. — Herbs or shrubs ; leaves usually palniatilobed : stipules persistent ; racemes long -. 

 $ flowers usually fascicled. 



57. C. lobatus, L. Annual, herbaceous or suffrutescent, pilose; longer hairs simple; 

 leaves &-5-partite : segments elliptical or elliptical-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate ; stamens 

 1 2-13 : inner series 2-3-androus ; capsule as long as the hairy calyx. — Marty n, Hist. t. 40. 

 — Astrtea,' Kl. — Stem l'-2' high ; seeds 2'" long, with large warts on tne sides, keeled on the 

 back and along the raphe, apiculate behind the caruncle, light -brown, opaque. — Hab. Carib 

 beanJslands, and Trinidad !, Lockh., Schach, Pd. : a weed ; [Cuba ! and Mexico, to Brazil 

 and Ecuador!]. 



Sect. 8. Cyciostigma. — Stamens 15-co, Styles bipartite: branches simple. — Threes or 

 shrubs: down tomentose with stellate hairs ; flowers of both sexes mixed ! : the $ cen- 

 tral in the special cymules, tohich are arranged in a terminal raceme. 



58. C. gossypifolius, V. Arboreous; branchlets tomentose; leaves cordate-trijid, 

 stellate-pubescent above, hoary-tomentose, and at the base 2-glandular beneath : lobes ovate, 

 pointed, quite entire.— Vahl, Symb. 2. t. 49. — A low tree, 15' high. — Hab. Trinidad !, Lane. 



Sect. 9. Lasiogyne. — Stamens 15-20. Styles deeply S-fid: branches simple. Seeds 

 ovate-oblong, glabrous, punctate. — Tomentose shrubs ; down stellate ; leaves denticulate, 

 or repand-entire : stipules deciduous ; racemes terminal. 



59. C. astroites, Ait. Leaves ovate, pointed, cordate at the base, scabrous-tomentosc 

 above, hoary-tomentose beneath : basilar glands none ; segments of $ calyx obtusely keeled 

 on the back. — C. phlomoides, Pers. Lasiogyne, Griseb. Carib. — A low shrub, l'-5' high. — 

 Hab. Antigua!, Wullschl. ; [S. Thomas!, Desirade!, Guadeloupe!]. 



14. AC1DOCROTON, Gr. 



(Acidoton, P. Br., non Sw.) 



Flowers monoecious, $ and ? on distinct branches. $ : Calyx 5-partite, valvate ; petals 

 5 ; stamens oo, distinct, included : anthers adnate, introrse, mucronate. $ j Calyx 5-partite : 

 segments alternating with mucroniform points ; petals ; ovary surrounded by a ciliate disc, 

 3(— l)-celled : styles 3, obovate-foliaceous, bipartite, revolute-spreading. Capsule 3-coccous. 

 Seeds carunculate, ovate-oblong : raphe distinct. — Peduncles terminal, subsolitary. 



60. A. adelioides, Gr. — Adelia acidoton, L. {non Kth.). — A very spiny shrub, 4'-6' 

 high, diffuse : spines stipular, spreading, 4"'-8"' long, thin, exceeding the contracted-rosidar, 

 leaf-bearing, hairy, but at length excrescent, and glabrate branchlets; leaves cosetaneous, 

 obovate or obovate-roundish, glabrous, quite entire, 4"'-2'" long, shortly petioled : stipules 

 setaceous, almost 1'" long, and excrescent ; peduncles of both sexes terminal, 1 -flowered, 

 solitary, or a few together, $ 1'" long, 9 3-4'" long, cernuous, pubescent. $ : Calyx 

 V" long : segments oval-roundish, ciliate ; petals 1"' long, oval-roundish, ciliolate ; disc scu- 

 telliform, free on the villous margin, and 10-lobed ; stamens about 25-30, covering the disc : 

 anthers ovoid, with the connective dilated on the exterior side, and shortly mucronate. ? : 

 Calyx 2"'-3'" long, glabrescent : segments obovate, contracted at the base, with the sinus 

 open, and bearing a stipuliform, setaceous (£'" long) point ; disc entire, circular, villous ; 

 ovary smooth, equalling the calyx : cells 1 -ovulate : styles 1"' broad at the rounded top, with 

 the branches contiguous, depressed, somewhat convex on the upper side ; capsule 4'" diam., 

 smooth, glabrous : cocci bivalved, with the endocarp loosened ; seeds 3'" long, 2'" broad, 

 convex on the back, obsoletely tetragonal, brown, opaque, at length shining, subtruncate 

 a round the whitish caruncle : sides obsoletely rugulose transversely. — Hab. Jamaica !, Sw.; 

 at New Greenwich (P. Br.); [Cuba!, on the rocky banks of the Yuinury, Rugel~\. 



