DEC., 1913. EUPHORBIACE.E MILLSPAUGH 375 



flowers subsessile; calyx cupulate, lobes 3, scaphoid-ovoid, sarcous, 

 margin erose, internal bracts as in the male; ovary 3 -celled; stigma ses- 

 sile, the three branches divaricate, lying closely appressed to the ovary 

 and incurved at the tips. Capsule glabrous, 5 mm. diameter, strongly 

 3-coccous, the cocci rotund, but slightly keel-marked and minutely trans- 

 verse wrinkled; seeds light brownish-gray, elongated-ovoid, 5 x 3.5 mm., 

 smooth, caruncle flattened-discoid, umbonate, chartaceous. Sap watery. 

 Type locality: JAMAICA, Upper Clarendon, Peckham woods, on lime- 

 stone rocks at 8.5 m. altitude. Collected by Wm. Harris 10,980; 

 10,981; 11.204, July to September, 1911. Types in herb. Field 

 Museum of Natural History, sheets Nos. 376.686 (male), 376.685 

 (female), 376,690 (fruit collected from the same tree as the female 

 flowering specimens, September 9, 1912). 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



2. Dendrocousinsia fasciculate Millsp. sp. nov. 



A small tree, 5 m. Leaves alternate below, opposite and fasciculate 

 (appearing trifoliate) above, gray -green, glabrous, 3-9 cm. long, 1.5-5 

 cm. broad, ovate to oval, coriaceous, reticulate-veined, rounded at the 

 apex, margin slightly and irregularly wavy dotted with a few minute, 

 glandular points; midrib prominent and yellowish beneath, the lateral 

 veins irregularly disposed and ascending; stipular glands on each side 

 of the base of the midrib. Inflorescence (female) in sessile, crowded 

 fascicles at the apex of the terminal branchlets surrounded by the 

 fascicle of leaves. Female flowers subsessile, roseate; calyx cupulate, 

 lobes oval, narrow, margin irregularly 3-toothed, teeth broad, erose; 

 internal basal bracts short-lacerate-glandular; basal glands antler-like 

 with one, two or three prongs, their bases connected by an oval, erose- 

 margined, bractlike scale; branches of the style appressed to the ovary, 

 not incurved at the tips. Fruit and male flowers unknown. Sap milky. 

 Type locality: JAMAICA, Westmoreland and Hanover, in woods at the 



summit of Dolphin Head, alt. 690 m. Collected by N. L. Britton 



2219, March 18-20, 1908. Type in herb. New York Botanical 



Garden. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type and Harris 10,266 gathered 



from the same tree. 



