Df.c. i8g6. Flora of Yucatan — Millspaugh. 305 



Styles cleft into two columnar broadly swollen lobes but slightl}' 

 capitate at the apex. Capsule deeply 3-carpellate, carpels 

 scurfy not carinate; seeds globular, ecarunculate, white, deeply 

 and irregularly scrobiculate. Leaves 4 to 6 lin. long, 3 to 5 lin. 

 broad. Capsules 3 Hn. diam.; seeds 1.5 lin. diam. 



Differs from E. Schlechtendalii^ its nearest counterpart, in its 

 leaves, glands, appendages, styles, and habit. Named in com- 

 memoration of the aboriginal Maya's who have long used the 

 plant medicinally as a drastic-purgative or emeto-cathartic 

 according to the size of the dose employed. 



Abundant in the brush lands about Izanial, June to Dec. (302). 

 {Milhpaiigli, An/iour Exped. gg). 



Excoecaria glandulosa Sw. Kanchunup. 



Tree-like 20 feet high, abundant about the the town of Silam, 

 April (615). 



Jatropha Curcas Linn. Siclte. 



Shrub 15 feet high, cultivated to some extent at Izamal, June 

 (746). 



Jatropha urens Linn. Chay. Chaya. 



Climbing 40 feet. Commonly cultivated at Izamal, producing 

 the edible Chay of the market (604). 



Jatropha urens stimulosa (Mich.) Miill. Oinoin-chay. 



Campo about Merida, April i'&?>'j [A/i//s/^ai/gh, it). Shrubby, 20 

 feet high, in the forests about Izamal, common, Jan. to Dec. 



(425)- 



Pedilanthus nodiflorus sp. nov. (Plate XVH.) 



§ EiipcdilantliKS. Shrubby, 6 feet high. Stems whitish-fari- 

 nose, jointed, widely branching; branches virgate, alternate. 



Leaves Inflorescence in 



lateral, spiciform, densely white-tomentose clusters at the nodes; 

 pedicles in fruit as long as the involucre. Involucre red, the 

 inferior lobes deltoid, irregularly 3-lobed at the apex, unigland- 

 ular at the base, superior lip deeply 2-lobed and with a rudi- 

 mentary third lobe; lobes ovate-truncate, the apices finely and 

 regularly serrate-toothed. Style columnar, long-exserted, com- 

 posed of 6 coherent tubular styles; stigmas 3, bilobed at the very 

 apex; ovary woolly-tomentose. Filaments and interior of the in- 

 volucre glabrous. Capsule deeply 3-carpellate, carpels but 



jk slightly keeled; seeds globular, lurid, densely whitishmaculate. 



W Shrub 6 feet high; internodes 2 to 3 inches long; involucres 



5 lin. long; capsule 4 lin. diameter. Abundant about the port of 

 Silam (coastal), flowers bright scarlet, April (649). 



Pedilanthus Itzseus sp. nov. (Plate XVIII.) Yaxhalalche. 



§ Anovialus : Involucre of ^ more or less distinct parts. 



Frutescent, glabrous, 5 feet high. Branches virgate, flesh}-. 

 Leaves alternate, sessile, fleshy, ovate-lanceolate acute, deltoid at 

 the base, 2 to 3 inches long, 1.5 to 2 inches broad, midrib promi- 



