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EUPHORBIACEAE. 



Stamens very numerous, the filaments re- 

 peatedly forked. 

 tt Lobes of the staminate calyx imbricated, or 

 calyx wanting. 

 Flowers in branched racemes. 

 Flowers spicate or in simple racemes. 

 Bracts small; shrubs or trees. 



Calyx of the staminate flowers cleft 

 or lobed. 

 Filaments distinct. 

 Filaments connate. 



Anthers 2 ; ovary 6-9-celIed. 

 Anthers 3 ; ovary 3-celled. 

 Calyx of the staminate flowers none 

 or rudimentary. 

 Bracts large, membranous, at first enclos- 

 ing the inflorescence ; large tree. 

 2. Flowers in a calciform or cyathiform involucre. 

 Involucre calciform, the glands internal. 

 Involucre regular, the glands external. 



Glands of the involucre inframarginal ; shrubs or 



trees. 

 Glands of the involucre marginal. 



Plants leafless or leaves small and rudimentary. 

 Plants fleshy, cactus-like ; bractlets foliaceous. 

 Plants woody, jointed ; bractlets not folia- 

 ceous. 

 Plants normally leafy ; herbs, rarely shrubs or 

 trees. 

 Inflorescence terminal. 



Stem topped by an umbel ; stipules none. 



Stem not topped by an umbel ; stipules 



gland-like. 



Inflorescence axillary or axillary and terminal. 



Leaves equilateral, ternate or verticillate ; 



shrubs or trees. 

 Leaves inequilateral, opposite ; mostly 

 herbs. 



17. 



18. 



Ricinns. 

 llunihot. 



1. SAVIA Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 771. 1806. 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate stipulate leaves, the inflorescence racemose 

 or short-eymose. Flowers petaliferous, dioecious or monoecious. Male flowers: 

 sepals 5, subequal, imbricated; petals small; stamens 5, alternate with the 

 petals ; filaments separate above their insertion ; anthers erect ; rudimentary 

 ovary slightly 3-fid. Calyx of the female flowers as in the male. Capsule 3- 

 celled, the cocci 2-valved; seeds exarillate; endosperm fleshy; cotyledons plane. 

 [Commemorates Gattano Savi, professor at Pisa, died 1844.] About 6 West 

 Indian species. Type species: Croton sessiliflorum Sw. 



1. Savia bahamensis Britton, Torreya 4: 104. 1904. 



A shrub or tree up to 5 m. high with ascending branches. Leaves oblong- 

 obovate, thick, obtuse and rounded at the apex, narrowed at the base, 7 cm. 

 long or less, 1.5-3 cm. wide, dark green, shining and strongly reticulated above, 

 pale green and inconspicuously reticulated beneath; petioles stout, about 4 mm. 

 long, about as long as the dense clusters of male flowers; fruit glabrous, 

 depressed-globose, slightly and obtusely 3-lobed, about 8 mm. in diameter. 



In thickets, from Abaco southward to Inagua : Florida : Cuba ; Jamaica. Re- 

 corded by Mrs. Korthrop as 8. erythroxyloides Griseb., of Cuba, which it resembles. 

 Maidex-bush. 



2. SECTJRINE&A Comm.; Gmel. Syst. 1008. 1791. 



Shrubs, the leaves alternate, entire, often small, the flowers clustered or 

 solitary in the axils, monoecious or dioecious, apetalous. Male flowers: 



