EUPHORBIACEAE 711 
Annual or biennial: stipules narrow: bracts petal- 
lik 25. LEPADENA. 
Perennial: stipules none: bracts not petal-like. 26. TITHYMALOPSIS, 
Glands of the involucres without a -like ep panera en- 
tirely naked, sometimes with crescent-like h 
Stem topped by an umbél: "rb none: involücres in 
open cymes, each with 4 glands and entire or toothed 
lobes. 27. GALARHOEUS. 
Stem not topped by an umbel: stipules gland-like 
volucres in cluster-like cymes, each with a op 
gland or rarely 4 glands and WR So lobes 28. POINSETTIA. 
Shrubs with fleshy eactus-like branches, spine- deme" 29. EUPHORBIA. 
XI PEDILANTHEAE 
Fleshy plants with enel many Siem, the involucres clustered 
at the ends of bra 30. PEDILANTHUS. 
1. SAVIA Willd. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate: blades thick, entire. 
Flowers green, dioecious; the staminate densely clustered, with 5 broad rounded 
sepals an in pet atal broadened upward: 
stamens 5, exserted. Pistillate ig. soli- 
tary or few together, with 5 sepals 
and 5 nearly similar petals: ovary = acd: 
styles 2-parted. Capsule depressed.—About 
6 species, West Indian. 
1. S. bahamensis Britton. Shrub or small 
tree, the bark pale- gray or whitish: pri 
blades typically obovate, varying to nar- 
rowly obovate or oval-obovate, 2-5 cm ione. 
pale-green, shining above, glabrous, "short- 
d stamin da^ flower with orbicular- 
e sepals abou . long and cuneate 
~ y thin pee shorter than ok sepals: pistillate fower with d 
orbicular pee T bd about 2 mm. long: capsule spheroidal, 5—6 m 
lo seed 4— g.—(MAIDEN-BUSH. a= eA lower Florida Keys — — 
(Bah.)— 
2. XYLOPHYLLA L. Shrubs or small trees, with flattened leaf-like, 
usually. distichous, branchlets. Leaves minute or obsolete. Flowers green, 
borne clusters along the margins of 
the leaf-like branchlets. Staminate flowers 
mostly with 6 sepals and 3 stamens.  Pistil- 
late flowers mostly with 6 sepals and a 
4—10 cm. 
nate flower 1-1.5 mm. long: capsule 4-5 
road. [X. Epiphyllanthus (Fl. Da 
S.) ]—(Sworp-BusH. )— ocks, Key 
—(W. I.)—This p ONE species are cultivated for ornament in 
warm countries. 
a 
3. PHYLLANTHUS L. Herbs or partly woody plants. Leaf-blades 
entire. Flowers apetalous, green or purple-tinged. Staminate flowers with 5 
