Argythamnia 



EUPHORBIACEJE 





axillary spike-like 2-sexual racemes, each sul)t<-n<led by a bract, 

 the upper flowers male, the lower (!-">) female ; the glands of the 

 disk alternate with the petals. -Male flowers: Calyx-segments 

 4(-5), valvate. Petals 4(-5). Stamens 4 (-5) ; filaments united 

 at the very base: anthers dorsifixed. Female flowers: Sepal 

 imbricate. Petals -\ minute. Ovary 3-cellnl : styles spreading, 

 variously cut; ovules solitary in the cells. Capsule breaking up 

 into three 2-valved cocci. Seeds without a caruncle. 



Species ~>5, natives of tropical and subtemperate America, 



including the West Indies. 



A. eandicans Sic. Prodr. 39 (1788) & FL Ltd. Ocr. 336. /. 8 ; 

 Juswu EiqJiorl. Tent. t. 7 ; BaiU. Etnd. Ei^Jn.rb. t. 15, f. 30-.". '1 : 



Fig. 92.Argythamnia 



A, Portion of branch with intlor- 



ence x - 

 tt, Male Mower X 7. 



s\v. 



C, Female tl<>\\ er X 4. 



D, r.ipsule x 3. 



E, Seed X 4. 



Griseb. FL Jlril. W. Lid. U ; Muell. Arg. /// DC. Pr,h: xv.pt. _. 

 7H (Argyrothamnia) j Urb. Symli. Ant. iv. .'511: 7W in llnyl. 

 I'llniir.t urrirJt ir. 147, vi. 80. llicino atlinis odorif era. . .dilute 



piir[ur(M Sinn, ir Cut. 44 A: Jfixt. i. l.">.'i, /. ^r>, /'. 3. A. fruti-- 

 albida iVc. I>i-nn-,,r ///x/. ,/r/m. 338. (Fig. OL'.I 'I'vpe in Herb. 

 .Mus. lint. Specimen from Swart/ in Herb. Stockholm. 



N.-;u- St. Jago do la Vega, Sloan<- Herb. ii. ','J ! r>roini<> ; }\~ri<jht\ Long 

 Mt., HfnHifliton ! Sn;irf~\ /.Vr/Vro ; Mucfudin n ! banks of Nr-TO R. ; 

 coast, Trelawneyj Purdie\ \\~il*<>ti\ White River, JVior I March'. J.P. (U-, 

 Morris ! foot of Long Mountain ; Ferry Pcu ; Cumjibclll Lucca, Hitchcock ; 



