780 EUPHORBIACEAE 
gated with red and pink; d calyx about 3 mm. Bie the lobes shallow: 
pistillate calyx 8—10 mm , the lobes reniform: capsule 9-12 mm. broad.— 
(SNOWBUSH. )—Pinelands Me waste-places. ia aen ‘Keys, la.—Nat. of 
South Sea Islands, and cult—(W. I.)—A11 yea ery ornamental hedge- 
plant in pen. Florida. The leaves are well- bra ui mottled with white. 
The flowers are mainly greenish and inconspicuous. 
. DRYPETES Vahl Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades entire or undulate- 
toothed. Flowers apetalous, green or brownish. Staminate flowers in rather 
dense clusters, with 4—8 sepals and 4-16 stamens.  Pistillate flowers few in a 
cluster, with 4—8 sepals and a 1—2-celled ovary. Fruit a berry or a drupe.— 
About 10 species, West Indian and South American 
Sepals 4: gynoecium 2-carpellary: drupe subglobose, less than DT E 
Sepals 5: gynoecium 1-earpellary: drupe elongate, over 15 mm. . 2n 
long. 2. D. diversifolia. 
1. D. lateriflora (Sw.) Krug & Urban. Shrub, or tree becoming 10 m. tall, 
with tuam bark: leaf- blades elliptie Or nearly so: stamens 4: drupe 9-11 
mm. di re 
(GUIANA- -PLUM. ) — o unos 
Eds. Keys, Fla. and Florida Keys.— 
(W. I.)—Fall-wint.—The sap-wood is yel- 
low; the dark-brown  heart-wood, close- 
gr aine ed, heavy, hard, but brittle, is used 
in cabinet- work. 
= - E Krug & Urban. cns 
tree beco 12 m. tall wit milk- 
white reece bak naa blades oblong 
elliptic or oval: 8: dru 
em. long, ripe in fall. [D. i li Erg & 
Urban]—(WnurrEWwOoOD.) —Hammocks, Cape 
Sable region, Fla. an Florid Key — 
( )—Spr.—The sap-wood is yello 
brown; ; the brown and yellow streaked heart-wood, close-grained, heavy, hard, 
but brittle, i is used in cabinet-work. 
7. CROTON L. Shrubs or herbs. Leaf-blades nea ie as or lobed. 
Flowers mostly green, usually c or racemose. inate flower with 4-6, 
usually 5, sepals, small, often rudimentary, petals ieu. with Modes and 
6—many stamens, fie less. Pistillate flower with 5—10 sepals, usually no 
petals and a 3-celled ovary. Fruit a eapsule.—A bout 650 species, widely dis- 
tributed in warm and tropical regions. 
Staminate and pistillate flowers with petals. I. ALABAMENSES. 
Staminate flowers with nu i both staminate and pistil- 
late flowers without 
Petals present in the staminate flowers, wanting or rudi- 
ntary 
Plant with scaly foliage. II. ARGYXRANTHEMI. 
Plant with stellate-pubescent foliage. 
Pistillat 2 n mostly not accrescent : leaf-blades 
jojo with blades of an ovate or elliptic type, III. FRUTICULOSI. 
Le pate with blades of a linear or narrowly 
elliptic type. IV. LINEARES. 
Pistillate calyx mostly accrescent: leaf-blades 
oothed or entire. V. GLANDULOSI. 
eius wanting in both the staminate and the pistillate 
ers, VI. PUNCTATI. 
