SKPT., 1914. EUPIIORBIACE.E MILLSPAUGII 393 



3.5 x 1.5-2.5 mm., mostly reddish, strongly inaequilateral, subcordate, 

 obtuse, entire; petioles 1.5 mm. ; stipules: the upper elongated-triangular, 

 more or less lacerate or bi-acicular, the lower short-triangular, the margin 

 lacerate-dentate. Involucres turbinate, peduncle nearly the length 

 of the tube, tube glabrous without, densely ciliated at the throat within; 

 lobes triangular, ciliate; sulcus with an acicular, fimbriate lobe at the 

 fundus; glands plane, reniform; appendages showy, white or roseate, 

 oval, entire; bracteoles many, ligulate, finely fimbriate; pedicels of the 

 male flowers ligulate, anthers centrally fixed to the apex of the pedicel ; 

 style trifid to the base, the branches bifid, stimgatic surface large, half 

 the length of the style. Capsule glabrous, cocci strongly angled, 

 glabrous; seed pink, farinose, ovoid-triangular, .8 x .6 mm., obtuse, the 

 dorsal angle strongest, dorsal facets slightly marked by indefinite 

 ridges. 

 Type locality: CUBA, in savannas near Camaguey, April, 1912, N. L. &* 



E. G. Britton & /. F. Cowell 13233. Type in herb. New York 



Botanical Garden; fragmentary portions in herb. Field Museum 



No. 409482. 

 Distribution: CUBA, vicinity of El Morro, Santiago Bay, Britton 6* 



Cowell 12537; Camaguey to Santayana, Britton 2394. 



Chamaesyce paredonensis sp. nov. 



Perennial from a heavy, thick, ligneous root; plants in dense, pros- 

 trate masses, crispid-pilose; stems vastly numerous, many times divari- 

 cately branching; branches tenuous. Inflorescence solitary in the 

 forks of the upper branchlets. Leaves minute, 2-4 x 1-2 mm., opposite, 

 oblong, fleshy, inaequilateral, scattered pilose above and beneath, sub- 

 cordate, obtuse, margins of the terminal leaves entire, those of the median 

 and lower leaves irregularly and unequally few crenate-dentate ; petioles 

 i mm. or less, interpetiolar, bulbous-triangular, bi or tri-aristate, pilose. 

 Involucres campanulate, about the length of the pedicels, glabrous, 

 the inner surface woolly except at the fundus; lobes broadly-triangular, 

 ciliate; sulcus broad and not demarked from the general margin; glands 

 transverse, oval; appendages white, ovate, slightly emarginate, about 

 twice the breadth of the glands ; male flowers few, the pedicels ligulate, 

 glabrous, female pedicel and ovary glabrous; style trifid, spreading, the 

 stigmatic lobes bifid two-thirds. Capsule glabrous; seed triangular- 

 ovoid, greenish-white, 1.2 x .8 mm., acute, the dorsal angle very sharp, 

 the facets smooth, the two ventral about equal to one dorsal. 

 Type locality: CUBA, Cayo Paredon, /. A. Shafer 2763, October 25, 

 1909. Type in herb. New York Botanical Garden; fragments and 

 co-types in herb. Field Museum sheets 409486 and 286093. 



