346 BARTLETT: DESCRIPTION OF EUPHORBIA EPHEDROMORPHA 
Shrub; branches prostrate or ascending, a meter long, sparsely 
branched, wing-angled, glabrous, green; leaves deciduous, ovate, 
somewhat pilose, especially on the veins beneath, blades 2-4.5 
cm. in length, petioles half as long; stipular glands minute, on 
either side of the flower bud at the base of the petiole; cymes 
axillary on the old wood, expanding before the leaves, densely 
glandular-pilose, as are also the minute filiform-spatulate bracts; 
involucres narrowly conic, 3 mm. long, equaling their pedicels, 
segments five, very short, fiahelliform, digitately laciniate, glands 
five, bearing oblong or slightly spatulate, entire, white appendages 
FIG. 3); ovary 2 mm. long in fruit, slightly exserted from the 
involucre; seeds lilac gray, ovoid, foveolate. 
' In nude rocky dry soil at the side of a road leading from Gualan 
to the Motagua River, Department of Zacapa, Guatemala, C. C. 
Deam 232 (in flower, 11 Jan. 1905) and 6529 (in full leaf, 14 
Fic. 3. Involucre of Euphorbia ephedromorpha, X 10. 
June 1909). On leafless branches ot Euphorbia ephedromorpha 
the stipular glands are quite obliterated at the edge of the 
depressed scar of the caducous cyme. 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 
