790 EUPHORBIACEAE 
18. GYMNANTHES Sw. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades entire or toothed. 
Flowers monoecious or rarely aa oe Staminate flower with a 
rudimentary or obsolete calyx and or A 
stamens.  Pistilate flower with a ru S 
mentary calyx and a 3-eelled ovary. Fruit "4 
capsule.—About 12 species, American. 
1. G. lucida Sw. Shrub, or tree ione 
10 m. tall: leaf- 
spatulate, or nearly elliptic, 4-10 cm. long, 
undulate or obseurely to othed near the apex, 
-8 mm. long.—(CraBwoop.)—Hammocks, 
Fla. and ida 
ys—(W. I.)—Spr.—The sap-wood is 
p 
bright- yellow: the dark-brown and yellow 
streaked fae -wood, close-grained, heavy, and hard, is used in cabinet work. 
19. HIPPOMANE L. Trees. Leaf-blades entire or toothed, pinnately 
veined. Flowers on a e rachis, nu a E pes Staminate flower 
with 2 or 3 sepals and 2 or 3 mens. 
gee flower with 3 sepals us 6-8 
led ovary. Fruit a drupe, with a nes 
CAEN stone imbedded in the pulp. 
1 inella L. Tree E os 18 m. 
tall: deat ade. ovate, elliptic, or oval, 4- 
0 ] d 
1 ong: spikes 4-8 em. long: drupe 
ne imd em. broad.—(MANCHI- 
NEEL.)—-Hammocks, Everglade Keys and 
Cape Sable ca. pen. Fla. and aud 
Keys.—(7 eT., ; s. 4.)— 
milky sap is a Adr irritant, S 
0 The ye t- : 
brown, the dark. oo n wood is close-grained, but light and sott 
20. BIVONEA Raf. Herbs or shrubs, often bristly-stinging. Leaf- 
blades entire, lobed, or divided. Flowers in forked cymes, white. Staminate 
flower with a corolla-like 5-lobed calyx and 
10-30 Pen Pistillate flower with a 
usually 3-celled ovary. Fruit a somewhat 3- 
lobed capsule. [Cnidoscolus Pohl.]—About 
20 species, mostly in tropical America. 
1. B. stimulosa Cosa) Plant 1-12 
dm. tall: leaf-blades broad, 
coarsely or finely du Som s calyx 
with a rape tube, and lobes about equal 
in length: capsule 10-16 em. long, bristly. 
[Jatropha o Michx. ]-— ( SPURGE- 
NG TREA 
f 
woods, sandy gs pinelands, N 
sand-dunes, Coast tal Plain ənd adj. pro " 
inces, Fla. to Tex. and Va.—Spr.—fall or all year S. 
