Euphorbia KLTHoJUJIACE^E 345 



times scale-like, opposite, at the topmost nodes. -Griseb. FL Br. 

 W. 1,^1. r2 ; Boixs. in DC. Pm,!,-. .-,: j,f. i'. 76. Pyretrum 

 aphylloii Plum. PI. Amer. (Burm.) t. :>:;4, fy. 1. Type in 

 Herb. Ke\v. 



Rocky wood above Christiana, I'/irdicl near Troy, 2500 ft. Harris ;'. 

 Fl. Jam. 9098. 



Plant, 1-8 ft. high, glabrous; stems woody, terete, glaucous-green; 

 branches in whorls of three or more, more or less drooping, compressed. 

 Involucres solitary or in clusters, terminal, and at the nodes near the ends 

 of branches; terminal cluster of three involucres, or composed of two 

 involucres below opposite, and of three terminal, with narrow leaf-like 

 bracteoles ; involucres glabrous, hairy inside ; lobes fringed with minute 

 teeth; glands fleshy; appendages roundish. Probably dioecious. Male 

 jlowers only known. Capsule not known. 



17. E. punieea Sw. Prodr. 76 (1788) & Fl. Ltd. Occ. S73 ; 

 small trees ; branches rather thick, leafy at the ends, leafless 

 below and marked with the scars of the fallen leaves ; leaves 

 oblanceolate to obovate ; bracts scarlet ; cymes corymbose with 

 one or several heads, subterminal or from the axils at the 

 extreme ends of branches ; glands outside the involucre, below 

 the margin. Jacq. Collect. Hi. 179 & Ic. PL Piar. t. 484 ; Alt. 

 Hort. Kew. //. 143; Sm. Ic. Pict. t. 3; Bot. Pieg. t. 190; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1961; Descourt. Fl. Ant. Hi. 191, t. 194; Griseb. FL Br. 

 W. In<L 54; Bois*. in DC. Prodr. xv.pt. 2, 105; Millsp. ton/, fit. 

 164 ; Urb. St/mb. Ant. v. 394, obs. d ; 395, fig. A, B. Poinsettia 

 punieea Klotzsch & Garcke in Monatsb. Akad. BerL (1859) 102. 

 Euphorbiodendron puniceum Millxp. torn. cit. 305 (1909). 



Wild Physic Nut. 



SJiakspear\ Swartz ; Waters \ Wilson I -J. P. 1034, Liberty Hill, St. Ann, 

 Miss Stennctt ! Dolphin Head, 1600 ft. ; Stanmore Hill, 2200 ft. ; near 

 Malvern, 2200 ft. ; Negril woods, near lighthouse, 300 ft. ; Peckham wood- 

 land, Clarendon, 2500-2800 ft. ; Mt. Pleasant, Stony Hill, 1100 ft. ; Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 9267, 9962, 9985, 10,241, 10,865, 11,146. Bahamas, Cuba. 



Tree, 12-30 ft., to 9 inches in diam., abounding in acrid milky juice, 

 much branched, glabrous. Leaves 7-15 cm. 1., 2-3 cm. br., apex obtuse, 

 sometimes acute, mucronulate, gradually narrowing to a very short petiole, 

 when dry membranous, those nearest the corymbs sometimes more or le-> 

 coloured. Bracts 2-3, l'5-4 cm. 1., elliptical to obovate. Involucre 

 6-7 mm. 1., cylindrical-campanulate ; lobes very short, triangular, sub- 

 acuminate, entire ; glands 4-6, carnpanulate, attached at the back. Styles 

 united beyond the middle, branches entire. Capxulc about 1 cm. in diam. 

 Seeds ovate, apiculate (fide Boissier). 



E. troyana Urb. N/////&. Ant. v. :> ( J4, u'ttli fy. (1)08) ; small 

 lives; branches rather thick, leafy at the ends, leaflets below 

 and marked with the scars of the fallen leaves; leaves narrowlv 

 oblong to oblong-lanceolate, sometimes oblanceolate ; bract- 

 scarlet; involucres solitary at the apex ot' branches: ^lainU 

 situated outside, near the middle of the involucre, decurrent.- 

 Euphorbiodendron troyanum Millp. lor. cit. (1909). 



