136 EUPHORBIACEA. 
30. SAPIUM. 
Sapium, P. Br. Hist. Jam. p. 338; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iti. p. 334. 
A genus of about twenty-five shrubby and arboreous species, widely diffused in the 
hotter regions. 
1. Sapium biglandulosum, Miill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxii. p. 116. 
Excecaria biglandulosa, Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 1204. 
Stillingia biglandulosa, Baill. Adansonia, v. p. 320. 
Hippomane biglandulosa, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1481. 
B. pavonianum, Mill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxii. p. 116. 
Soutn Mexico, Vera Cruz (Miller), without locality (hb. Pavon). 
e. klotzschianum, Miill. Arg. loc. cit. p. 117. 
Excecaria biglandulosa ¢. klotzschiana, Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 1205. 
Mexico (hb. Pavon); GuatEemaLa (Friedrichsthal)—Braziu. Hb. Kew. 
A. moritzianum, Miill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxii. p. 119; Kl. in Seem. Bot. Voy. 
* Herald,’ p. 100 (species). 
Excecaria biglandulosa &. moritziana, Mill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 1207. 
PaNnaMa, southern parts of the province (ex Seemann), Frijoli station (S. Hayes, 709).— 
CotomBia. Hb. Kew. 
Miiller defines fourteen other varieties, which are spread over South America from 
VENEZUELA and CoLomBIA to Peru, Guiana, and BrRaziL. 
| 31. SEBASTIANA. 
Sebastiana, Spreng. Neue Entdeck. i. p. 118, t. 3; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 336. 
Shrubs, usually slender, with a few herbaceous species. There are about forty 
species, one of which inhabits the tropics of the Old World, one the Southern States 
of North America, whilst the rest are natives of Tropical America and chiefly of 
Brazil, one of these recurring in western Tropical Africa. 
1. Sebastiana treculiana, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 2, p. 1165. 
Gymnanthes treculiana, Mill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. p. 216. 
Sapium ? annuum B. bidentatum, Torr. Bot. U.S. & Mex. Bound. Surv. p. 201? 
Trexas.— Norra Mexico, Monterey, Nuevo Leon (Laton & Edwards, 65). Hb. Kew. 
This should perhaps be referred to the next genus. 
32. GYMNANTHES. 
Gymnanthes, Sw. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Occ. p. 95; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 337. 
About ten shrubby species, inhabiting the West Indies and Tropical America. 
1. Gymnanthes actinostemoides, Miill. Arg. in Linnea, xxxii. p. 103. 
Sebastiania actinostemoides, Mill. Arg. in DC. Prody. xv. 2, p. 1184. 
