SEPT., 1914. EUPHORBIACE.E MILLSPAUGH 395 



the hilum distinct, facets convex, marked by a few indistinct and in- 

 complete ridges. 



Near Chamaesyce brasiliensis from which it is readily distinguished 

 by its yellowish seed angles, glandular-dotted stipules, and a striking 

 resemblance in habit to Phyllanthus Niruri. 

 Type locality: Jamaica, in a pasture at Malvern, N. L. Britton 1186. 



Type in herb. Field Museum, sheet No. 217319. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type. 



Chamaesyce insulaesalis sp. 'nov. 



Perennial, erect, 7-10 cm. from a densely nodular rootstalk; branches 

 densely tufted, wiry, terete, glabrous, internodes 1.5-2 cm. Inflores- 

 cence solitary, terminal and terminal-axillary. Leaves opposite, 

 sarcous, glabrous, 2-4 x 1.5-3 mm., ovate, inaequilateral, marked only 

 by the thick midrib, subcordate, acute, the margin entire or in the 

 lowermost indistinctly and minutely denticulate; petioles about i mm., 

 often with a tuft of ciliae between the base and the stipule; stipules 

 of many forms from deltoid and entire through lanceolate, bifid, and 

 lanceo-aristate to a mere tuft of ciliae. Involucres campanulate, 

 sessile or nearly so, the outer surface smooth, the inner densely woolly, 

 the wool especially long and dense at the fauces; lobes triangulo-aristate, 

 densely woolly on the inner, recurved surface; glands transverse, oval; 

 appendages greenish-white, entire or nearly so, about as broad as the 

 glands; bracteoles dense tufts of woolly hairs; male and female flowers 

 glabrous; style trifid to the base, the branches bifid to hall their length. 

 Capsule glabrous, strongly tricoccous; seed i x .7 mm. triangulo-ovate, 

 white, acute at the apex, the angles sharp, the facets smooth or nearly 

 so, some marked by a few irregular, low and indistinct ridges. 

 Type locality: BAHAMAS, Salt Key Bank, Salt Key, in sandy places, 



Percy Wilson 8082. Type in herb. Field Museum, sheet No. 



246476. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type. 



3. NOTULAE HYPERICIFOLI/EARUM. 



CHAMAESYCE HYPERICIFOLIA (Linn. Sp. PL, 454. 1753); Millsp. Field 



Col. Mus. Bot., 2:302, 1909. 



The reference to this species in Gray's Manual from the first to the 

 fifth edition should have been to C. Preslii Guss. C. hypericifolia is 

 tropical and sub-tropical, its distribution extending from the southern 



