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Eupborbiacese Mexicange. 



By C. F. MiLLSPAUGH, M.D, 



The following IS an enumeration of the Euphorbiacese collect- 

 ed in the states of Jalisco, Tamaulipas, and Nuevo Leon by Mr. 

 C. G. Pringle in 1 888: 



EUPHORBIE^. 



Etiphorbi 



Branches S to 17 cm. long ; leaves 5 to 1 1 mm. long, 2 to 9 mm. 

 wide; stipules triangular, hirsute; cymes 4 to 12 headed; the 

 floral bracts verticillate on the pedicels and similar to the stip- 

 ules; glands orbicular, cup-shaped, stipitate, deep red ; capsules 

 hirsute even in age. Dry slopes of the barranca, near Guadala- 

 jara, December 11. (2065), 



EupJiorbia villifera, Scheele, Linnaea, xxii. 153. Dry rocky 

 places, Sierra Madre, near Monterey, June 28. (2067). 



Etiphorbia radioloides, Boiss., DC. Prod. Pars xv. p. 45. 

 This plant has the same characters as described for Seemann's No. 

 1522, but is larger. Dry slopes of the barranca, near Guadala- 

 jara, Dec. II. (2066 in part). 



iphorbia 



This 



(?) 



449. Plant 15 to 17 cm. high, of a deep red color throughout, 

 villous with spreading hairs ; appendages entire ; capsules villous 

 upon the keels; leaves oblon^^-lanceolate, 3 to 8 mm. long, i to 

 i^ mm. wide ; seeds dark reddish-salmon color. (2066 in part, 



Am. 



collected same place and date). 



Etiphorbia Giiadalajarana^ Watson, Contrib. xiv. Proc. 

 Acad, xxii., 449. Dry slopes of the barranca near Guadalajara, 

 Dec. II. (2064). The rediscovery of this beautiful species first 

 collected by Dr. Edward Palmer in shaded ravines of the Rio 

 Blanco, is especially interesting, as Mr. Pringle says : " I only 

 secured four specimens ; it must be very scarce in the region 

 worked by me last fall." 



Euphorbia siibreniforntey Watson, Contrib. xiii ; Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xxi. 439. Moist banks near Guadalajara, Oct. 30. (2063). 

 Previous finding of this species was at the Hacienda San Jose, 

 state of Chihuahua, bv Dr. Palmer and Mr. Fravles. 



