FLOKA OF THE ISTHMUS OF PANAilA. 90 
Britain, author of the * Flora of Shetland/ and late naturalist of H.M.S. Herald, who unfortunately lost his 
life after returning from a hotanical excursion at Sua, on the coast of Ecuador, January 24, 1S4G*. 
PiATE XVIH. rig. 1, two flowers attached to the rhachis, and the cup-shaped bract which surrounds 
the calyx ; 2, a flower ; 3, a flower cut open ; 4 and 5, anthers ; G and 7, ovary ; 8, ovary cut open ; 
9, pollen-masses : — all magnified. 
ETJPHOKBIACEiE. 
(Auctore F. Klotzsch) 
Tribus I. Eupuorbie^, Bartling. 
EupnoRBiAj Linn, Gen. PL n. 609. 
Sectio 1. FruticuU aut herla difus^, procumhentes aut erccta, dicJiotoma ; foUis opposifis, hasi plerum- 
gue oWiqimet rotundatis, sa^pius orUculatis vel elUpticis, intcrdum denticulaiis ; stipulis intra- 
petioUrihus ; florilus axiUarihus, suUnde termimlihus aut alaribus, solitariis, intcrdum cor^mloso- 
conglomeratis. 
180. Euphorbia callitrichoides, H.B.K., Nov. Gen. et Sp. PI. vol. ii. p. 42.-Herb. Willd. 
n. 9278. fol. 2. In sunny places, Province of Panama. 
181. Euphorbia hypericifolia, Linn., Willd. Sp. PI. vol. ii. p. 895.-Lam. Diet. vol. ii. p. 422. 
Panama. 
182. Ev^RORBiA piMifera, Linn., WUld. Sp. PI. vol. ii. p. 897— E. capitata, Lam. Diet. vol. ii, 
p. 422. n. 31.-^. indica, Lam. Diet. vol. ii. p. 423. n. 34. In plantations; common all over the 
country. 
Sectio 2. Serhce erects, dicJiotomcs ; foUis oppositis, pcHolatis, ohhngis, b<m aqualibus, integerrimu ; 
stipulis ad lasin petiolorum glandulaformihus, truncaiis ; Jlorilus solitanis. 
183. EupuoRBiA pida, Jaca-, Icon. Bar. t. 477. collect. 3. p. 178.--AVilld. Sp. PI. vol. ii. p. 896. 
n. 76. Veraguas. 
Sectio 3. mrh<3 erectce, dichotomy; foliis oppositis, petiolatis, oUongis, lasi ^qualihus, integerrimU ; 
stipulis nullis ; pedunculis dicJiofomis. 
184. Euphorbia graminea, Linn. Willd. Sp. PI. vol. ii. p. 900. n. 59. Volcano of Chiriqui, 
Veraguas. 
SICIIO i. FruticuU inermes, erecti, gUlri, apice dU vel trichctom ; film terr^U, integerHmU ,■ Jlorihus 
alarihus, axillaribus vel terminalibus, paucis. 
185 EuPHOEBiA apocynoides, Kl. MSS. ; fruticulosa, inermis, infeme di- supemc trichotoma, 
glabra ; ramis ramuUsque tcretibus ; foliis teruis, petiolatis, oblongo-obovatis, obtus,s, ba.x attenuat.s, 
Lninerviis, integcrrimis, subtus glaucesccntibuB ; floribus axillaribus, alaribna et laterahbus, paucs 
L-ipcdiceUatis ; involucris cyathiformibus, quinqucfidis, albidis. Punta de Garachme, Pro^•mcc of 
Pauama- 
vol 
* See biographical sketcbea of Etoonstonin Seemann's ' Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald,' 
, 1. p. 67 Seemann's ' Eeise um die Welt,' Band i. s. 71, and ' Bonplandia, vol. .. p. 4. ■ 
