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( 2520.) 
KuPHORBIA ANACANTHA. Scary Fincrr- 
FLOWERED SPURGE. 
Class and Onde? 
Dopecanpria TRIGYNIA. 
Generic Character. 
Cor. 4- 8. 5-petala, calyci insidens. Cal. 1-phyllus, ven- 
_ tricosus. Caps. 3-cocca. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Eupnorsia anacantha ; inermis, imbricata, tuberculis foliolo 
subrotundo instructis, floribus terminalibus solitariis 
sessilibus, petalis palmatis. Hort. Kew. ed. I™, 2. 
p. 136.—ed. alt. 3. p. 158. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. p. 888. 
Evupnorsia tridentata; imermis ramosa, subtuberculata, 
calycum Jaciniis exterius supra concavis coloratis tri- 
dentatis. Lam. Encyel. 2. p.416. Decand. Plantes 
Grasses 144. fide Hort. Kew. — ~ | 
Dacrytantues anacantha. Haworth Syn. Succ. p. 132. 
Eupnorrium anacanthum squamosum lobis florum triden- 
tatis. Isnard. Mem. de I Acad. 1720. p. 518. t. LL. 
Eupnorsium erectum aphyllum, ramis rotundis, tuberculis 
tetragonis. Burm. Afr. 16. t. 7. f. 2. 
Descr. This plant has altogether the habit of a Srapenia, 
the same kind of fleshy, jointed, tuberculated branches : the 
tubercles are generally four-sided, marked at the point with 
the remains of a small ovate, deciduous leaf. At the extre- 
mities of the flowering-branches from three to five oval 
fleshy leaves are produced, serving as an involucrum to the 
flower, from the centre of which issues the peduncle, bear- 
ing, according to the usual language, a single flower, with 
four or five tubular petals, each having a two-lipped limb, 
the wnder-lip much the longest, and terminated with three 
subulate 
