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Euphorbia epithymoides. Broad-leaved 



Spurge. 



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C'/#ss cwc? Order. 



DODECANDRIA TrIGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. 4- s. 5-petala, calyci insidens. Cal. 1-phyllus, ven- 

 tricosus. Caps. 3-cocca. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Euphorbia epithymoides ; umbella quinquefida : trifida : 

 subbifida, involucellis ovatis, foliis obovato-oblongis 

 subtus villosis, capsulis papilloso-hispidis. 



Euphorbia epithymoides; umbella quinquefida : bifida, invo- 

 lucellis ovatis, foliis lanceolatis obtusis subtus villosis. 

 Sp. PL 656. Syst. Veg. ed. 14. p. 452. Jacq. Flor. 

 Austr. 4. p. 23. t. 344. 



Euphorbia epithymoides; umbella quinquefida: bifida, in- 

 volucellis ovatis dentatis, foliis integerrimis lanceolatis 

 obtusis retusis subtus villosis, capsulis papilloso-his- 

 pidis. Willd. Sp. PI. 2. p. 909. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 

 16. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 3. p. 165. Bot. Repos. 616. 



Tithymalus epithymi fructu. Col. Ecphr. 2. p. 52. t. 51 ? 



Peplios altera species. Bauh. Pin. 292 ? 



Jacquin observes that the Involucrum of this species con- 

 sists of five leaflets nearly like those of the stem : and says 

 the umbel is generally divided into five rays, which are 

 again divided into three, and these into two. In cultivation 

 there is less constancy in the numbers of the divisions of 

 the umbel. The stem, leaves, and involucella, are covered 

 with a dense soft pubescence scarcely visible to the naked 

 eye, but more evident in the young state. We have never 



seen 



