Euphorbia. DODECANDRIA TRIGYNIA, 469 
leaf from the apex of each tubercle, Peduncles thrée-' 
flowered. This pretty species of Euphorbia was brought 
from the Molucca Islands to the Botanic garden at Cal- 
cutta in 1798, where it thrives well, and blossoms in Fe- 
bruary, March, and April. 
Stem erect, three-sided, with a few scattered, ascending, 
smooth, deep green, succulent branches ; these are all 
three-sided, with the angles considerably extended into 
large, scollop-toothed tubercles; the extretnity of each 
is armed with two short, sharp spines, and like the rest 
of the family every part abounds with much aerid, milky 
juice ; the general height of the plants, when ten years old, 
six or seven feet. Leaves solitary, one between each 
pair of spines at the end of the tubercles, sessile, wedge- 
shaped, entire, smooth on both sides, having the upper 
side of a deep green, and being much paler underneath, 
from one to two inches long, and less than half that in 
breadth. Stipules, on the upper side of the base of each 
Spine, is a small, somewhat acute, hard, brown gland, 
not unlike the spines themselves, but much smaller, Pe- 
duncles from the sinuses on the angles of the branches, 
short, thick, generally three-flowered, the main one ses- 
sile, containing five fascicles of staminary male florets 
Only ; the lateral pedicelled flowers, contain one female 
and five male florets, Calyx in both five-parted ; segments 
two-edged, entering the calyx below its fissures, roundish, 
jagged, incurvate over the male and hermaphrodite flow- 
ers, there are five segments of the male florets those are 
in fascicles of about six each, lengthening and expand- 
ing in succession, these are also surrounded by several 
multifid. scales, or petals.©  Aathzrs of two round lobes- 
Germ superior, short-pedicelled, ovate, three-sided, three- 
Celled, with one seed in each, attached to the top of the 
axis, Style short, half three-cleft. ee came 
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