DEC., 1913. . EUPHORBIACE.E MILLSPAUGH 357 



length of the tube, lobe deltoid-ligulate, notched at the truncate apex, 

 ciliate-margined; glands 4, small, scutellate, thin. 



Type locality: JAMAICA, Negril vicinity, March, 1908, N. L. Britton & 

 Arthur Hollick, 2067. Type in herb. New York Botanical Garden. 

 Distribution: JAMAICA, Harris 10.238. 



5. PEDiLANTHUSPARAsmcus'Kl.&Gke. (necBoiss.). Tricocc., 105. 1859. 



Euphorbia parasitica Pavon in herb. 



Pedilanthus ramosissimus Boiss. in D. C. Prodr., 15:5. 1862. 



Shrubby, stem 15.3 cm., alternately and repeatedly short-branched; 

 branches as thick as a goose quill. Leaves sessile, rotund or subcordate 

 at the base, somewhat crisp-puberulent beneath, undulate, the larger 

 2.5 cm. Cymes at the apex of the attenuate floral branchlets which are 

 1.3-1.8 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. diameter, capitate, densely many in volucred; 

 leaves of the inflorescence ovate-oblong, acute, deciduous; involucres 

 small, 7-1 1 mm. (8 x 4 mm.) long, the tube glabrous, its main lobes 

 broadly rounded, ciliate, the superior fissure two thirds the length of 

 the tube; inferior notch deep; lateral lobes short; oblong, one third free 

 at their rounded, ciliate apex; fifth lobe ligulate-spatulate, free to the 

 base, rounded and entire at the ciliate apex; male and female pedicels 

 glabrous. Appendix one third the length of the tube, its lip ligulate- 

 deltoid, retuse; glands 2; large, shaped like a ruptured anther, stipitate. 

 Type locality: MEXICO, Ruiz & Pavon. Type (visa) in herb. Boissier, 



Geneva. 



6. PEDILANTHUS PRINGLEI Robinson, Proc. Amer. Acad., 29:322. 

 1894. 



Shrubby, 1.20-1.50 m. ; stems smooth, alternately few branched. 

 Leaves softly and closely puberulent on both surfaces, lanceolate, 

 acuminate, 3.8-5.1 cm. long, subsessile by an abruptly narrowed base, 

 midrib white and prominently keeled beneath. Cymes terminal; 

 bracts minute, grayish-tomentose, caducous; peduncles 2.5-5 mm. long; 

 involucres acutish at the base, dark purplish-red, 1 1 mm. long, glabrous 

 without and within ; tube : the lobes ^finely ciliated on the free margins ; 

 male pedicels and filaments glabrous, female pedicel glabrous; style 

 slender, dark-red, trifid. Appendix 4-glandular, glabrous, abruptly 

 bent, attenuate to a very narrow, truncate, entire or slightly retuse apex. 

 Capsule smooth, 6.5-7 mm - i n length, upon a stipe 13 mm. long; seeds 

 ashen, ovoid, apiculate. 



Type locality: MEXICO, limestone ledges at La Palmas, San Luis 

 Potosi, July 25, 1891, Cyrus G. Pringle 5107. Type (visa) in herb. 



Gray, Cambridge, Mass. 



