EUPHORBIACEAE 779 
P. Garberi Small. Plant 1-5 dm. tall: leaf-blades pU. D some- 
times narrowly so, or linear-elliptic: staminate c s a ut 2 wide; sepals: 
ovate to orbicular-ovate: mature vistillate ealyx 3 mm. de seal elliptic 
to ovate: capsule 2.5-3 mm. wide. [P. pid más (Fl. SE. U. 8.) ]-—Coastal 
sand-dunes, pen. Fla. and the "Keys.—All yea 
6. P. pentaphyllus C. Wright. Plant 0.5—4 dm. tall: ne blades thinnish, 
mainly cuneate, often inequilateral: a calyx 1.5 mm vide; sepals sub- 
orbicular : mature eas calyx a about 3 mm. wide; sepals bote to elliptie: 
ha 
eapsule less than mm us vide. Pinelands, ‘Brerglade Keys, Fla. and lower 
Florida oye AF. IL )—AW yea 
y = E Sane Plant 1.5-4 dm. tall: leaf-blades obovate ie sna 
abo re 
obovate: staminate calyx ut 3 mm. wide; sepals elliptic to obova 
Pistillate ealyx abou 6 mm. wide; b suborbieular to rhom d Oct i 
abruptly pointed: capsu ule 4-5 mm. wide.—Low hammocks, Gulf Hammoe k 
region, W pen. Fla.—A1l year 
4. CICCA L. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades entire. Flowers similar to 
those of Phyllanthus, but with vertically opening anther-saes. Fruit baecate.— 
About 12 species, tropical. 
icha L. Shrub or small tree, the 
ves various, base of th 
branchlets with suborbicular to orbicular- 
ovate bla se em. lon hose abov 
them with larger ovate to. elliptic- Cr 
at nee larger sepals suborbicul 
orbicular-obovate, 1.5-2 mm. long: 
2 em. bro 
GOOSEBERRY. GOOSEBERRY-TREE. )— aads 
and waste-places, A T. Fi. ‘aa 
Florida Keys. Nat I. 
(W. I.)—AM MEA Plants usually Ta an cQ 
abundanee of fru These are light-green and ls They are used for 
making pies, i and wine. The root and leaves are medicinal. 
5. BREYNIA Forst. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate: blades broad, 
entire. Flowers solitary in the axils, or the staminate few together. Stam- 
inate flower with a turbinate calyx- -tube an 
anthers e vertically. Pistillate flower 
with a short, broad calyx-tube and 6 very- 
broad mirc te lobes: overy 3-celled: styles 
very t LS s 2-lobed. Berry de- 
pre a iP 15 species, natives of Asia 
and Oceania. 
osa (W. J. Smith) Small. Shrub 
with eins and d pape stems, 
the branches dark-red: es somewhat 
distichously spreading ; blades oval, varying 
te or obovate, green and white, varie- 
