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Euphorbia apocytufolia is related to Euphorbia corollata but dif- 

 fers in the more slender habit, the broader and thinner leaf-blades 

 and the densely villous petioles. The petal-like appendages are 



Euph 



rounded at the 



apex. The habit of the newly described species suggests that of 

 Euphorbia paniculata. 



The original specimens of Euphorbia apocynifolia were collected 

 by Mr. Geo. V. Nash at Quincy, Gadsden County, Florida, on 

 September 4, 1895, number 2567. 



w Si DA LEPTOPHYLLA. 



Perennial (?), thinly pubescent. Stems erect, over 10 dm. 

 tall (in specimens seen), widely branching: leaves numerous, 

 blades thin, linear to linear-oblong, 2-10 cm. long, acute, sharply 

 serrate with short flaring teeth above a short entire base, paler be- 

 neath than above, obtuse or rounded at the base; petioles 3-10 

 mm. long; stipules subulate, filiform: pedicels 2-8 mm. long: 

 cahces finely pubescent ; segments 4-5 mm. long, triangular, acute, 

 or somewhat acuminate, about as long as the tube : corollas about 

 2.5 cm. broad : fruit 6-j mm. broad ; carpels 2-ridged above, not 

 pointed, glabrous. 



In sandy soil, Georgia. 



This species gives us an eastern relative of Sida Lindhcimcri. 

 It is related to Sida Nco-Mexicana hy its inflorescence, mainly by the 

 short peduncles, but in other parts and in habit it is more like Sida 

 Lindhcimcri. From the latter species it diners by the short-pe- 

 duncled, often clustered flowers, the thinner leaf-blades with their 

 finer and sharper teeth and the glabrous pointless carpels. The 

 specimens on which the species is founded were collected in 

 Georgia by Dr. Boykin and his label contains this record, " This is 

 the large flowering Sida, of which there are seeds in the other box. 

 If not 5. gracilis, is new. I have thought it not described by Mr. 



[lliott] 



" Rhexia filiformis. 



Perennial, slender, sparingly pubescent. Stems erect, Wit' 

 like, 1-4 dm. tall, villous-hirsute, simple or branched, terete or 

 nearly so ; branches filiform : leaves quite numerous ; blades linear- 

 fihform or filiform, 1-3 cm. long, acute, serrulate, sessile, the 

 larger ones involutely folded : flowers in open cymes, short-pedi- 



