358 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY BOTANY, VOL. II 



Distribution: MEXICO, Oaxaca, Pringle 6043; Nelson 1682; C&c. & Ed. 

 Seler 1682; Tomellin, Conzatti 1672; Salina Cruz, Deam 119. GUATE- 

 MALA, Gualan, Deam 234. 



7. Pedilanthus Smallii Millsp. sp. nov. 



Shrubby, 2 m. high, profusely branching, the branches and branch- 

 lets more or less zig-zag (in the type very sharply and strongly so), 

 branchlets slender, stipular glands plainly evident. Leaves densely 

 crisp-puberulent when young, pubescent when developed, sessile, 

 ovate-lanceolate to ovate, acute, the mid-rib inconspicuously keeled 

 beneath. Inflorescence terminal on the young branchlets; bracts foli- 

 aceous, exceeding the peduncles, ovate-lanceolate, attenuate at the 

 apex, crisp-pilose; involucres salmon to pink, glabrous without and 

 within, i cm. x 4 mm., superior fissure open to the appendix, inferior 

 cleft shallow; main lobes of the tube ovate, rounded and cilia to-fimbriate 

 on the margin, strongly folded into a plait along the margin of the fis- 

 sure; lateral lobes free only at their rounded apices; fifth lobe free 

 throughout, narrowly ligulate, obtuse. Male and female pedicels 

 glabrous; male flowers about 10; style deeply 3-lobed. Appendix one 

 third the length of the tube; lobe deltoid, not ciliate margined, retuse, 

 strongly marked by a longitudinal channel as if nearing bilobation (in 

 fact in one flower it was found to be deeply bilobed) ; glands 4, in pairs 

 the outer pair minute. Fruit unknown. 

 Type locality: FLORIDA, in pine lands near Miami; John K. Small 



2286, November, 1904. Type in the herbarium of the New York 



Botanical Garden. Full size photograph in herb. Field Museum. 

 Distribution: BERMUDA, at Castle Point, Brown & Britton, 820, 



September, 1912. 



8. PEDILANTHUS PADIFOLIUS (L.) Poit. An. Mus. Paris, 19:391. 1812. 

 Tithymaloides laurocerasi folio Dillen. Elth., t. 288. 1732. 

 Euphorbia tithymaloides padifolia Linn. Sp. PL, 453. 1753. 

 Euphorbia anacampseroides Lam. Diet., 2:420. 1786. 

 Pedilanthus anacampseroides Kl. & Gke. Tricocc., 106. 1859. 

 Shrubby. Leaves glabrous, 9-12x3-5 cm., subsessile, cuneate at 



the base, oblong-ovate, obtuse or retuse, keeled beneath. Cymes 

 terminal, open; floral leaves ovate, acute; involucres large, sarcous, 

 hairy within, 1.2 cm. long; tube with the lateral lobes all spatulate and 

 one third connate ; male and female peduncles hairy ; style entire at the 

 apex the stigma tic point slightly marked with three shallow sulci. 

 Capsule "the size of a hazel nut." 

 Type locality: ANTTLLEAN ISLANDS, Plumier. 



