EUPHORBIACEAE 789 
4, S. aquatica Chapm. Short-lived shrub with wood lighter than cork, 6-20 
dm. tall, stout- stemmed : blades of the upper leaves linear to linear -elliptic ser- 
rulate: spike stout, mainly yellow: capsule about 10 mm M m oc OOD. um 
Ponds and wet Sud. Coastal Plain, Fla. to Miss. and iS. C.—Spr.- 
S. tenuis Small Short-lived shrub with light brittle wood, 3-12 dm. tall, 
with slender stem not umbe lately branched at the top: blades of the upper 
id eaves narrowly linear, crenulate Poss slender, mainly red: eapsule about 7 
wide.—Everglades, Fla.—All yea 
15. SEBASTIANA Muell. Arg. Shrubs or rarely herbs. Leaf-blades 
entire or barely toothed. Flowers monoecious, apetalous. Staminate flower 
with a calyx of 3-5 sepals and 3, or rarely 4, sta- 
mens. Pistillate flower with 3 spate and a 3-celled 
ovary. Fruit a dry capsule—-About 40 species, f 
mostly tropical. 
1. S. ligustrina (Michx.) Muell. Arg. Shrub b 1-4 m 
tall: leaf-blades elliptic or oval, 3-8 em. long: spikes 
Shorter than the leaves, green or a ou capsule 
^ nnd nearly 1 cm. broad: seed ir A. about 
ng.—(SEBASTIAN-BUSH wamps, stream- 
banks: e a. ‘Coastal Plain, Fla. to La., and N. C.—Spr.—sum. 
. TRIADICA Lour. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades entire, usually 
broad. Flowers monoecious, in dense so panicles, apetalous. Staminate 
flower with 2 or rarely 3 sepals and 3 stamens.  Pis- 
tillate flower with 2 or 3 sepals and a 3- sens ovary. N 
Fruit a fleshy capsule.—Few species, of. tropical Asia. 
T. sebifera (L.) Small. Tree resembling a pop- 
bie, unat m 
1.5 em oad: 8-9 mm. long. oie sebi- 
ferum my Roxb. pus mde TALLOW-TREE.)—Ham- (]) 
mocks and bow Coastal o Fla. to La. and 
C.—Nat. of E Asia and cult.—Spr. 
17. SAPIUM P. Br. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades entire or Reid 
toothed. Flowers monoecious, in narrow spike-like panicles, apetalous. Stam 
nate flower with 2 or 3 sepals and 2 stamens.  Pistil- 
1. S. glandulosum (L.) Morong. Small tre 
shrub, resembling a willow: io pup e “elliptic 
16 cm. lo 
to narrowly elliptic, acute, 8— ong, serrulate, 
short-petioled: spikes g var or “yellowish: "3 s 
about 1 cm. bro long.— (MILK- 
ad: seed 
a pnr E and icem MA E Fla. Nat. of 
S. A.—Spr. 
