DEC., 1913. EUPHORBIACE.E MILLSPAUGH 359 



Distribution: ANTILLEAN ISLANDS, Descourtils. SANTO DOMINGO, 

 Schomburgk 168. ST. CROIX, Ricksecker 181; Mrs. Ricksecker 165. 

 ST. KITTS, Britton & Cowell 256. 



Illustrations: Descourt. Ant., t. 117; Dillen. Elth., t. 288; Bot. Reg., t. 

 837; Bot. Mag., t. 254. 



9. PEDILANTHUS ANGUSTIFOLIUS Poit. An. Mus. Paris, 19:393, t. 19. 

 1812. 



Crepidaria subcarinata Haw. Rev. PI. Succ., 61. 1821. 



Crepidaria cordellata Haw. Rev. PI. Succ., 136. 1821. 



Euphorbia cordellata Haw. Misc. Natur., 185. 



Pedilanthus cordatus Spr. Syst., 3:802. 



Pedilanthus cordellatus. Steud. Norn., Ed. 2, 2: 282. 1840. 



Pedilanthus subcarinatus Steud. Nom., ibid. 



Pedilanthus tithymaloides angustifolius pt. Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I., 52. 

 1859. 



Shrub 1-1.3 m - Leaves pubescent, lanceolate, obtusely keeled 

 beneath, 7-10 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide. Cymes upper axillary and 

 terminal; bracts ovate, pointed, longer than the peduncles; involucres 

 strongly gibbous, somewhat puberulent, i cm. long; tube abruptly 

 truncate, pubescent within; main lobes with ovate, entire, blunt- 

 pointed apices, the two lateral lobes connate to the apex, fifth lobe 

 ligulate with a rounded apex and connate half its length; male and 

 female pedicels hairy the male on the upper third. Appendix strongly 

 gibbous at the base, the lip ligulate, emarginate, not thickened at the 

 apex; glands 4. Seeds strongly trigonal, 4.5 x 3 mm., sharply apicu- 

 late, dull ashen, the dorsal angle most prominent. 

 Type locality: SANTO DOMINGO, Poiteau. Type in herb. Paris. 

 Distribution: CUBA, Wright. SANTO DOMINGO, Poiteau; Ehrenberg. 



PORTO Rico, Garber 107; Sintenis 769; Britton &* Shafer 1869. 



CULEBRA, Britton 130; Britton & Wheeler 121. ST. CROIX, Rick- 

 secker. JAMAICA, Grisebach. 

 Illustration: An. Mus. Paris, 19:1.19. 



10. Pedilanthus bahamensis Millsp. sp. nov. 



Shrubby, glabrous, 1-1.5 m., leafless,* irregularly much branched, 

 branches about the size of a lead pencil, gray, roughened with silicious 



* I describe the plant as leafless from the fact that no Native has ever seen leaves 

 on the plant even in the most prolonged rainy season; they all know, however, that 

 a cutting will produce leaves if kept in water for a period of about three weeks. I 

 thus produced leaves myself which were oblong-lanceolate, 2 cm. x 8 mm., rounded 

 at the apex, somewhat narrowed to a sessile base, midrib keeled on the lower third, 

 glabrous. (See sheet No. 288.150 in herb. Field Museum). 



