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grey. ti'au>\ fisely rid-vd. -Hook. E.rnt. /'/. /. /. .')<) ; Griaeb. op. 

 I. it. 5 1 (excl. v;ir. ft and y] ; JinilL Etml. f. 1. /'. .'50; Boiss. tout. 

 cit. 23; J/i7/xp. in /'/,-/,/ Cbfemft. .Vws. />W. /V. '!, 16.., 3!J.~> : 

 Urb. Sifinb. Ant. !v. 354; Brown in Fl. 2V////. Afr. ci. sect. 1, 4'. |v 

 & FL 'Cap. v. sect. 2, 2 48. E. pilulifera Z. />. PL 4">4 (1753), 

 .!/// n. /'//. 115 A: Ifi'rb. (excl. syn. Burnt.) (nun auct.). E. minima 

 reclinata Arc. Browne Hixt. Jam. 235. E. inermis t'oliis oppositis 

 oblique Arc. X. .F7. Zeijl. 89 A: Jlfrinnnris xpreinti'tt n<>. 19* /// 

 Her]), i. 74. Tithymalus erectus acris ike. Slomu 1 Cat. S'2 k 

 Hisf. i. 197, . 126. Chamiesyce liypericifolia Milh}>. tnm.cit. .">02 

 (1909). (Fig. 113.) A specimen from Swartz in Herb. Stockholm. 



Sloane Herb. iii. 117, Ixxxii. 94! Wriglitl Brougliton\ Sivartzl 

 Jjancroftl Distinl pastures, St. Andrew, McXabl cane-fields, St. Thorna* 

 in the East, Purdiel Mctcalfel Port Antonio, Millspaugh; Constant 

 Spring, Bog Walk ; Port Morant ; Port Antonio ; Lucea ; Hitchcock ; 

 King's House, T. J. Harris ! Hope, 600 ft. ; Stony Hill, 1200 ft. ; near 

 Troy, 1800 ft.; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6778, 6803, 11,134, 12,646. Widely 

 distributed throughout tropical and subtropical regions. 



Annual 3-18 inches high. Stems glabrous, or rarely young parts 

 minutely puberulous. Leaves glabrous or slightly pubescent ; petiole very 

 short. Stipules variable, usually 1-2 mm. 1., ovate to lanceolate, serrate 

 to fringed. Bracts linear, acuminate, 1-1 '4 mm. 1. Involucres about 

 1 mm. 1., campanulate, glabrous or puberulous; lobes awl-shaped, ciliate ; 

 glands with a white, transversely elliptical appendage. CV/psMfo3-cornered- 

 globular, glabrous. Seeds 4-angled, about 1 mm. 1. 



An infusion of the dried leaves is recommended as a remedy in 

 diarrhoea, dysentery, &c., affecting the system as an astringent and feeble 

 narcotic (Watt). 



9. E. prostrata Ait. Hort. Kew. it. 139 (1789); prostrate, 

 branches minutely puberulous along a median line on the upper 

 side ; involucres axillary, glabrous, each with two leaf-like 

 bracts, forming a very short raceme, sometimes the internodo 

 are very short, and there is a cluster of two or three, each with 

 its bracts ; capsule hirtellous along the keeled edges, otherwise 

 glabrous, 1 mm. or more in cliam. ; seeds pale red or purplish, 

 acutely 4-angled, with about six transverse ridges. (rrixeli. /'/, 

 Br. IP. Ind. 53; Boiss. in DC. Prodi: .cv.pt. 2, 47 & I: Ei([>lu>i-l>. 

 t. 17; MueJL An/, in FL Bras. a.-/. j,t. 2, 683 j Wlly. in Bot. 

 Gaz. xxv. 19, witlt a Jig. & Field Coliimlj. Mu*. Bot. ii. 66, 164 ; 

 Urb. tom. fit. 356 ; Brown in FL Trop. Afr. >/. sect. 1, 510 A- 

 FL Cap. v. sect. 2, 245. E. minima etc. Jlrotrnr Hi*t. Jam. 2."i'>. 

 Cham;.-syce prostrata ,S',,m// Fl. S.E. U.Stntr* 7 1 > (l'.M.):;) : Mil!*),, 

 ton/, cit. 303, 406. r l"ypc in J In-b. Mus. I'.iit. Browne's specimen 

 in Herb. Linn, is named E. Chamsesijci' by Linmrus. 



Lanr in Herb. Sloane clxii. 130! I>r \\~ri.ihf ! Hron.jhtoi. 'in\ 



Kingston. Priori M<trch\ Arnott\ J.P. 1007, Morris'. Jackson Town, 

 Miss A. Moiilton -Jin rri'ft I New ^Farkct, I r>0 ft. : Hope grounds, 700 ft.. 

 Hams ! Fl. Jam. U88^, 11,803. - -Native of tropiral Amoricu. whcnci! it has 

 been introduced into other tropical and subtropical regions. 



Annual. Stems '5-2 dm. 1., with numerous slender branches. Lcaies 



