160 FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM BOTANY, VOL. II. 



medio subtus prominentis, crassiusculis, pagina subtus pilosis glauco- 

 viridis; stipulis triangulatis plus minusve aequaliter fimbriatis; invol- 

 ucris solitariis axillaribus, campanulatis, pedicellatis, extus glabris intus 

 ad faucam dense tomentosis, lobis triangularis inflexis praeciliatis, 

 glandulis ovatis albo-viridis, appendice magnis orbiculatis albis. Stam- 

 ina insertis pilosis (paleis linearibus glabris intermixtis), stigmatis supra 

 bifurcatis; capsulae glabris; semina roseo-cinereis ovatis valide trian- 

 gulatis leviter transverse rugosis. 



A small, erect, wiry plant branching from the base, 5-7 cm. high; 

 leaves 4x3 mm. glands 4 the fifth replaced by a sharp fissure flanked 

 by 2 larger involucral lobes. 



So far known only from sandy whitelands, as follows: 

 New Providence at the Race Course, Aug. 26, 1904, B. & Br. 839 

 type and 279. 



Euphorbia buxifolia Lam. 



Maritime beaches from Great Bahama southward. 

 Green Turtle Cay Brace 1508. 



Abaco Cherokee Sound, Brace IQO2, and Butler Bay, 1520. 

 Great Bahama infrequent, low and undeveloped. Eight Mile Rocks, 



in a clearing near the sea, B. 6 M. 2781. 

 Great Sturrup Cay B. 6 M. 2256. 

 Great Harbor Cay B. & M. 

 Lignum Vitae Cay B. 6 M. 

 Frozen Cay B. 6 M. 

 Whale Cay B. & M. 

 Gun Cay Millsp. 2317. 

 South Cat Cay Millsp. 2417,2418. 



Andros at Red Bays and Big Cabbage Creek, Northrop 457, 672. 

 Silver Cay Millsp. 2454. 

 Rose Island B. 6 M. 

 New Providence South shore, Millsp. 2109; near Nassau, Cooper sine 



num.; E. G.B.3i8$; Northrop 87 ; Coker 114; Hitchcock; Wight 55. 

 Eleuthera Governor's Harbor, Hitchcock. 

 Ship Channel Cay B. & M. 

 Wide Opening, Cay north of B. & M. 2781. 

 Great Guana Cay B. 6" M. 

 Great Galiot Cay B. 6" M. 

 Little Galiot Cay B. & M. 

 Cave Cay B.& M. 

 Exuma B. 6 M. 

 Stocking Island B. &> M. 

 Cat Island Port Howe, Hitchcock. 



