( 1961 ) 
Eupnoreta puntcea. ScARLET-FLOWERED 
SPURGE. 
Bab eee hee hea 
Class and Order. — 
Dopgcanpria TrieyNia. 
' Generic Character. 
Cor. 4. s. 5-petala, calyci insidens. Cal. 1-phyllus veniri- 
‘cosus. Caps. tricocea. ae 
Speeific Character and Synonyms. 
Evrnorsta punicea ; umbella quinquefida : _trifida, involu- 
_ ellis oyalibus acuminatis coloratis, capsulis glabris, 
foliis lanceolato-cuneiformibus subtus giaucis. Swartz 
Prod. 76. Kjusdem Flor. Ind.-Occident. 2. p. 873. 
Willd. Sp, Pl. 2. p.916. Hort. Kew. ed. alt: 3. p. 167. 
Smith Icon. Rar. t. 3. Martyn Mill. Dict. n.78. Jacq. 
a Rar. 3. t. 484. Collect. 2. p. V79. Bot. Register, 
a 
— Mr. Brown, in an Appendix to the Voyage of Captain 
_ Puinpers, has remarked, that the name of the natural order, ~ 
called by Jusstev Huphorbie, should not have been taken from > 
this genus, which is so little calculated to afford a correct idea 
of its structure, that authors are still at variance in the names — 
and functions they assign to several parts of the ‘flower. 
Jussieu, in his Genera Plantarum, had .made it a question, 
whether each of the stamens, as. being jointed, surrounded 
by pale, and shooting up at different periods, might not be 
considered as so many monandrous, male flowers, collected 
around one female, in a common calyx or involucrum. So 
considered, he observes, that the flower of Euphorbia would be 
compound, and the genus monoicous; and thus more con- 
§tuous with the rest of the family, from which it otherwise 
differs 
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