8 ERYTHEA. 



wide, fleshy, crowded, unequal, on petioles 1 luni. long, l)roadly oblong 

 or somewhat oblong- obovate, truncate, or cordate at base, entire; 

 stipules triangular-setaceous, 2 mm. long; involucres 2 n)m. long, 

 pubesceut, crowded in axillary capitate clusters along one surface 

 near the ends of the branches; glands 4, dark brown, two with white 

 appendages 2 mm. long and two almost unappendaged ; capsule 1^ 

 mm. long, pubescent, obtusely angled, four times the length of the 

 2-clefc Ityles; seeds 4-angied, flesh-colored, transversely rugose and 

 minutely tuberculate, ^ mm. long. 



Near E. Anthonyi, from which tiie white appendages of the 

 glands and lighter-colored capsules give it a very different appear- 

 ance. The seeds of E. Clarlouensls are also one-half as large, of a 

 different color, not so rugose and minutely tuberculated. The habit 

 of growth and leaves are much alike in both and they are plainly 

 derivatives from a not remote common type. Clarion Island. 

 Anthony's No. 406. 



Phyllanthus peninsularis. Frutescent, 1 meter high or less, 

 juuch ))ranched, glabrous ; leaves from ovate to round-obovate or 

 oblauceolate, acute, 1-1^ cm. long, -|— 1 cm. wide, on petioles 1-2 mm. 

 long; stipules lanceolate-setaceous, 1-2 mm. long; inflorescence axil- 

 lary ; staminate flowers on pedicels 4-5 mm. long ; calyx of six ovate 

 acuminate segments 2 mm. long, white margined; glands 6, orbic- 

 ular ; stamineal column 1 mm. long: fertile flower either solitary 

 in the axils of the leaves or with several staminate ones ; pedicels 

 longer than those of the male flowers ; calyx 6-parted, segments 4 

 mm. long, 3^ mm. wide, obovate, acute ; glands 6-7 ; styles 3, shortly 

 bifid or trifid ; mature capsule depressed-globose, somewhat obtusely 

 angled, glabrous, 3-4 mm. in diameter ; seeds roughened transversely 

 in sinuous lines. 



vSan Jose del Cabo, Sierra de la Laguna. This is No. 539 of my 

 Cape Region collection and was named by Dr. Millspaugh P. 

 polygonoides Spreng. It is, however, quite different from that species 

 in appearance, in the shape of the leaves and their larger size. The 

 stamineal column is hardly separated at the apex and the glands 

 are larger and difierently shaped. The seeds are 6-10 times larger, 

 with different markings. It grows 2-3 feet higi), with many slender 

 woody stems from the roots, branching and forming a small entan- 

 gled bush. Anthony's No. 364. 



