Pliyllanfhus EUPHOKBIACE.K 



outer obovate, inner ovate. Disk saucer-shaped with undulate margin. 

 Fruit globular, 6-7 mm. in diam., outer coat fleshy, milky-white, 

 enclosing 3 cocci. Seeds 3-cornered, "2 mm. 1.. somewhat reddish-brown, 

 smooth. 



4. P. Fadyenii Urb. Symb. Ant. vl. 1 3 (1909) ; shrub, glabrous ; 

 leaves 4-5 mm. 1., upper elliptical or shortly ovate, leathery, 

 apex rounded, generally obsoletely apiculate, base emarginate, 

 the lower roundish ; sepals of male flower 5, 1 ' '2 mm. 1., roundish, 

 of female flower 5, 2 mm. 1. (in fruit) ; filaments 3, free ; anthers 

 opening longitudinally. P. orbicularis (Jriseb. FL Br. W. Intl. 34 

 (1859) (as regards the Jamaican plant) (non H. B. d- K.). Type 

 in Herb. Kew. 



Macfadycn ! 



Sti^Hiles linear-awl-shaped, persistent, l'5-'5 mm. 1. Flowers in the 

 axils, generally solitary. Pedicels of male flower about 1 mm. 1., of female 

 to 3'5 mm. 1. Disk of 5 glands. Female flowers : Sepals obovate. 



[P. Urinaria L. Sp. PL 982 (1753); an erect or procumbent 

 annual herb (occasionally perennial), 416 inches (and more) 

 high ; stem and branches minutely hispid at the angles : leaves 

 5 2 cm. 1.. oblong, sensitive, tip rounded or apiculate, margin 

 often minutely hispid ; flowers subsessile ; sepals of male flowers 6, 

 about '5 mm. L, of female flowers 6, about *7 mm. 1., oblong, 

 1-nerved ; filaments united into a column ; anthers 3, erect, united, 

 opening vertically ; styles free ; seeds transversely wrinkled. 

 Muell Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 364 ; Hook. f. FL Brit. In<L 

 v. 293 ; Urb. Symb. Ant. vi. 89 ; HutcTiinson ni FL Trop. Afr. vi. 

 pt. 1, 721. P. leprocarpus Wight Ic. t. 1895, /. 4 (1852). P. foliis 

 pinnatis floriferis, floribus sessilibus caule herbaceo procuinbente 

 L. FL Zt^jl. 157. Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb. Mu-. 

 Brit. 



Naturalized ; Hope river valley ; Hope grounds ; Castleton grounds ; 

 Bath; Harris I FL Jam. 9980, 12,082, 12,142, 12,155, 12,195. Tropical 

 Asia, Australia, Pacific Is., rare in Africa. 



Stipules lanceolate-acuminate from a peltate base. Flowers greenish, 

 minute, solitary in the axils, males in the uppermost part of the branch. 

 Male flowers : SVpaZs obovate-elliptical. Disk composed of separate 

 minute glands. Female flowers : Sepals persistent, reflexed in fruit. 

 Disk saucer-shaped, margin irregularly toothed. Ovary, surface densely 

 granulate. Styles short, 2-cleft. Capsule about 2 mm. in diam., depressed- 

 globular, sometimes w r ith minute spines on the surface. Seeds about 

 1-3 mm. L] 



". P. carolinensis Walt. FL Carol. 228 ( 1 7ss) ; herb, becoming 

 woody bflow, 211 inches high, glabrous; branches >piradini, f . or 

 <-tiU' and erect; leaves 6-ll(-2U) mm. L, membranous, obovate 

 or oblong-obovate, apex rounded or blunt : sepals of male flower 6, 

 about '5 mm. 1 , obovate-roundisli. ot female flower 0, -5-1 mm. 1., 

 increasing to about 1 or 1*5 mm. in fruit, linear-oblanceolate : 



