Plnjllantlius EUPHOKBIACEJ] 263 



clongatus) the terminal portion becomes (especially in cultivated speci- 

 mens) much elongated (to 2 dm. 1.) and broader than below (to 3' 5 

 mm. br.), bearing flowers. Floiri'rinrj branches lanceolate, linear-lanceo- 

 late, strap-shaped but narrowed to both ends, to oblanceolatc, straight or 

 slightly curved, with blunt or acuminate apex, usually 0-5 cm. 1., 

 11-4 mm. br. ; notches 5-7(-0) on each side, distant, few below the middle, 

 truncate, with conspicuous cushions; veins irregularly unequal, close 

 together. Pedicels '2-. Steals 6, outer elliptical with brownish apex, 

 about 1 mm. 1., inner rhomboid or broadly-elliptical, about 1'3(-1'5) 

 mm. 1. Disk of male flower, of 6 subsessile, roundish, concave glands ; of 

 female flower saucer-shaped, G-lobed, the lobes often irregular, rarely 

 arcely united below. Capsule globular, 4-4 '5 mm. in diam. 



After an examination of a fragment of the type of Xi/lojiJiyUd dmtort/i 

 l-lritton (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, xxxvii. 353 (1910) ) kindly sent by Dr. 

 Britton, we are unable in the absence of flowers to separate it from the 

 above species. 



17. P. latifolius Sw. Fl Ind. Occ. 1109 (1800); pedicels 



2 mm. 1. to shorter than sepals; sepals '5-1 mm. 1. ; filaments 



3 (2-1), united to middle or beyond, free above; anthers united 

 at the back ; disk of female flower of minute separate glands ; 

 styles 3, united in lower half, free above, erect, branches 2-3(-5) 

 cleft, recurved. Griseb. loc. cit. P. isolepis Url>. Symb. Ant. Hi. 

 290 (1902); PhiL Plujt. t. 36, /. 7. Lonchitidi affinis &c. 

 (including the variety) Sloane Hist. i. SO. P. foliis latioribus <fcc. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 188. Xylophylla latifolia L. Mant. 221 (1771); 

 Sw. Prodr. 28 (1788) & 06s. Bot. 113 (1791). Specimen named 

 by Swartz in Herb. Mus. Brit. Specimen apparently from 

 Brown^ in Herb. Linn, named Plnjllantltus Epijtht/lhtnthus in 

 Solander's hand. 



Sloane Herb. i. 62 ! Liguanea, Barliam in Herb. Sloane clxii. 2S5 ! 

 Shakspearl Massonl 3IcXab\ Healthshire Hills, Purdiel March ! Port 

 Antonio, Hitchcock ; Ferry Pen, 150 ft., Campbelll Long Mountain, west, 



i ft ; Cane B. valley, 250-400 ft. ; Harris ! Healthshire Hills, lltirri* ,i 

 Bnttonl Fl. Jam. 6280, 8843 (8845, 9334, 9339 without flowers), 9631, 

 10,005, 10,523. Fl. Jam. 10,523 matches a specimen from Masson named 

 Xt/iuphjflla latifolia by Swartz in Herb. Mus. Brit. McNab's specimen in 

 Herb. Edinburgh is named P. latifolius in Grisebach's handwriting. 



Shrub or xmall tree to 10 or 12 ft. high. Bark ash-coloured, soon 

 becoming rougbish, with conspicuous scars. Seal;/ cone at apex of 

 branches broader than branch. Scale into* and xiipuh-s narrowly tri- 

 angular, acuminate, or linear-acuminate on young twigs, 3-S mm. 1. 



nultimate brandies slightly notched, 1-2 dm. L, 1'5-'J mm. br. Floiccrimj 

 brandies in two vertical rows, rhomboid, rhomboid-lanceolate, or oblanceo- 

 late, generally acuminate at both ends, 5-8 (3'5-8'5) cm. 1., 1- -'5 cm. br. . 

 notches 10-16(-19) on each side, generally above the middle, dense, with 

 prominent cushions formed by bracteoles of several flowers, striated by 

 the principal, somewhat distant veins, l-'lmn-rs red, several, sometimes 

 nunieruu-. Mnif j'<>ir, r.s .- ,S,y <//.> G (or 5), unequal, outer ;_ uerally lincar- 

 ob! bo obovate, apex brownish, '5-'7 mm. 1.. inner vlmvate or sub- 

 rhomboid, -8-1 mm. 1. Dixie of 6 shortly stal Mids. > of 

 h-malf jlowers like those of male. Cajmitlr globular, base truncate or 

 slightly hollowed, brownish, 2-5-3 mni. in diam.. 2 mm. 1. Seeds about 

 1*7 mm. L, brownish. 



