344 FLORA OF JAMAICA KuplwrUa 



foliis &c. Plnnt. PL An/rr. (linrm.) /. 251, f. :',. Poinsettia 

 heterophylla Kl attach A Gtin-ke in Monatsb. Akad. BerL (1859) 

 253 ; Millsp. torn. cit, 304 ; Small FL S.E. U. States, 722. 



\]'ihon ~ Marcli\ J. P. 098, Jcnmanl Hope grounds; near Brown's 

 Town, 1000 ft. ; Inverness, Clarendon, 200 ft. ; near Bath ; Spur Tree Hill, 

 2600 ft. ; Harris ! Watson Hill, Fawcett ! FL Jam. 5778, 6868, 6981, 7082, 

 8398, 10,079, 11,692, 11.957, 12,386. Constant Spring; Port Morant; 

 Hitchcock. Bermuda, Bahamas, W. Indies, continental tropical and 

 subtropical America. 



Herb 1-3 ft. high. Leaves 2-14 cm. L, of various forms, elliptical, 

 ovate, lanceolate, linear, or more or less fiddle-shaped, entire or serrate- 

 sinuate. Involucres pedicellate, campauulate, glabrous; lobes fringed. 

 Capsule 3-lobed, glabrous, about 4 mm. in diarn. Seed black, ovate with 

 truncate base, tubercled, tubercles often forming small crests, 2- 5 mm. 1. 



The following forms are noted by authors, but the 

 distinguishing marks are often seen in combination on the 

 same plant : - 







Var. eyathophora Grind. FL Br. W. Ind. 54 (1859) ; leaves 

 fiddle-shaped with two lobes, or elliptical, or ovate, entire.- 

 Boiss. loc. cit. E. eyathophora Murr. in Comin. Gocttiny. mi. 81, 

 t. 1 (1786); Jacq. Ic. Ear. t. 480. 



Var. graminifolia Engelm. in Torr. Bot. Hex. Bound. 190 

 (1859) ; leaves all, or almost all, linear-lanceolate, usually entire 

 and more hairy beneath. Millsp. in Bot. Gaz. xxv. 23, with fig. 

 (1898). E. graminifolia Michx. FL Bor. Am. it. 210 (1803). 



15. E. genieulata Ort. Hort. Matr. Dec. 18 (1800); plant 

 much like E. heterophylla, but leaves all of the same shape, 

 elliptical or oblong ; uppermost leaves and the bracts with a 

 whitish blotch ; involucres subsessile, cylindrical-turbinate. 

 Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 72. E. prunifolia Jacq. Hort. 

 Schoenb. Hi. t. 277. E. heterophylla L. var. prunifolia Griseb. 

 FL Br. W. Ind. 54 (1859). Poinsettia geniculata Klotzsch <0 

 Garcke torn. cit. 101 (1859); Small loc. cit. 



Wilson; March (fide Grisebach). Tropical continental America. 

 Examination of a larger series of specimens may prove this plant to bo, 

 as Grisebach suggests, merely a variety of E. heterophylla. 



[E. puleherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch in Otto rO Dietr. Ally. 

 Gartens ii. 27 (1834); Boiss. in DC. Prodr. ;cv. pt, 2, 71; Urb. 

 Si/mb. Ant. iv. 356. Poinsettia puleherrima Grah. in Edinb. N. 

 Phil. Journ, xx. 412 (1836); Bot. May. t. 3493. 



Poinsettia. 



This well known species is a native of Central America, and is cultivated 

 throughout the West Indies.] 



16. E. alata Hook. Ic. PL t. 700 (1844); shrub; stems and 

 branches long-jointed, erect, 2-winged ; leaves wanting or some- 



