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glabrous throughout, branches densely leafy; stipules all triangular, 

 the sides fimbriate, the apices lacerate, those on the upper side of 

 the branches tending toward bilobation at the apex; leaves oval- 

 oblong, narrowed at the oblique base, blunt at the serrulate apex. 

 Inflorescence solitary in the axils of the upper leaves, involucre 

 glabrous, short pedicelled tubulo-campanulate, lobes blunt-triangular 

 papillate, the two flanking the sulcus larger; glands 4, small, cupuli- 

 form, appendages rudimentary or most often wanting, fifth gland 

 replaced by a thread-like prolongation of the involucral tissue at the 

 base of the very shallow sulcus; capsule shallowly trisulcate, carpids 

 bluntly keeled; seeds brownish-red, farinose, quadrangular, 11 x.g 

 mm., dorsal facets convex, ventral very slightly concave ; markings 

 discernable, but too slight to take on describable form. 



Stems and branches 10-20 cm., internodes 8-10 mm., nodal 

 leaves 5-8 x 3.5-4 mm. This species, which in general habit closely 

 resembles E. maculata L. , is probably the plant reported in Ber- 

 mudan collections as that species, but I could not find it on the 

 islands. JE. Bermudiana is common in general, but especially so at 

 Paget's (2, 41), on the islets in Hamilton Bay (7, 9), and about Wal- 

 singham (101). It differs from E. maculata in its lack of hairiness, 

 and in its floral and seed characters. Type in Field Col. Mus. 

 Herb. No. 60101. 



Euphorbia Blodgettii (Engelm. in Herb.) Hitch. Rep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 

 1893:126. 



Type collected at Key West by Blodgett and distributed as E. 

 incequilatera by Chapman. Also collected in South Florida by Chap- 

 man and Curtiss, and on Nassau, Cat, Eleuthera, Crooked, Fortune, 

 Inagua, Jamaica and Grand Cayman Islands by A. S. Hitchcock. 



The following characters, in addition to those given by Hitch- 

 cock, are drawn from the type: Involucral lobes triangular-lanceolate, 

 entire though appearing fimbriate on account of their large hairs, the 

 two lobes flanking the sulcus apparently larger; glands 4, small oval, 

 their appendages various in form, the two next the sulcus always 

 largest and usually 3-crenate on the margin, the two smaller append- 

 ages entire, notched, or 2-3-crenate ; the fifth gland represented by 

 an awn-shaped prolongation of the involucral tissue at the base of the 

 obtuse sulcus. Seeds red pink, farinose, quadrangular 1 x.Smm., 

 the dorsal facets convex, the ventral slightly concave; dorsal facets 

 very slightly marked by interlocking transverse ridges. 



Related to E. stipitata Millsp., from which its characters readily 

 separate it. Sandy paths near Georgetown (1257, 1258), Spot Bay 

 (13-14), and Bodden Bay Road (1333), Grand Cayman. 



Euphorbia prostrata Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1, 2:189. 



The pilosity of the angles of the otherwise smooth pod is a strik- 

 ing characteristic of this species which in its general habit might 

 otherwise be mistaken for E. maculata L. 



To the characters as elaborated by Boissier in his Cent. Euph., 

 the following, drawn from the tvpe, might be added: Involucral lobes 

 bluntly triangular, papillate, the two flanking the sulcus generally 

 larger, glands 4, small, plicate, appendages rudimentary or wanting, 



