Euphorbia.) EUPHORBIACEAE. 397 
little conspicuous. Stipules triangular, low, 1/2“. Flower-heads terminal 
and axillary, single on pedicels of '/:—1‘, or several in simple or 
compound apis the cyme-branches muilti-bracteate with minute pairs 
of bractlets but bearing only 1—3 flower-heads at their ends. Bractlets 
minute, rounded, searious. Invol. 1/2—1, glabrous, with 4 roundish 
glands which are puberulous inside; the lobes small triangular, entire. 
Staminophores not exserted; bractlets 2—3-fid. Capsule exserted, nodding, 
1'/2', glabrous, the cocci slightly keeled. Styles free to the base, with 
short clavate branches. Seeds transversely rugose, — Boiss. in DC. Prod. 
lc. p. 12. aig shade oy & Arn. (non L.). 
ahu ft in a length of 1—2’ and easing shah pone 
‘Rite tel ae a gente in ‘successive un saan a true cicinnus or nipara 
: var. oe — Leaves ovate, entire, sometimes contracted at the 
. eads mostly single, the invol. more pubescent inside of 
ss inde. ie the lobes fimbriate. Styles connate at the base. Forms 
a transition to the larger- -leaved forms of EF. multiformis. 
W. Maui! Lanai! 
7. E. cordata,’ Meyen, Reise II, 150. — A low prostrate undershrub, 
1—2 ft. high, with rather thick nodose and tortuous tomentose branches, 
the internodes short. Leaves oppos osite, subsessile, orbicular, 5—8“ 
diameter, entire, cordate, fleshy, with inconspicuous nerves, glabrous, or 
slightly | nabenaiéun near the base only. Stipules quite low and obtuse, 
frin: Flower-heads rpliciss and axillary, subsessile, single, rarely 
or 3 together. Invol. campanulate, 1” or less, glabrous outside, 
pubescent. at the throat within, with 4 small roundish substipitate glands 
which are sometimes (but by no means always) bordered with a narrow 
membranous appendage; the lobes triangular, fringed. Pager igaiy 
exserted; bractlets slit to the middle or deeper. Cap 1“ or more, 
exserted. inclined, puberulous when young, the cocci gen keeled. 
Styles free, sabieeet with short thickened branches. Seeds ee 
4- hci white, acrobiculate. — Klotsich, in Act, Net, Cur. XIX, 
— Boiss. in DC. Prod. lL. ¢. p. 13, and Ie. Sento. § 
Sanu wna Hill, Kailua, Waimanalo, near the sea; Hawaii bilensies) 
78. E, pilulifera, L. — DC. Prod. 1. ¢. p. 21. — A decumbent sparingly 
branched annual, 6—8’ long, more or less hirsute with fulvous hair. 
Leaves Opposite, ovate-rhomboidal or ovate- reached 1—1'}2' —K 4—8", 
on petioles of 1“, acute, serrulate, oblique and cuneate or truncate at the 
base. Stipules not connate, small linear. Flower- heads minute and 
numerous, crowded into head-like axillary cymes on short peduncles, 
Tnvol. about 1/2“, puberulous, glabrous within, with 4 small entire ge 
which are generally without appendages; lobes triangular, fim 
apsule */;, declinate, puberulous, the cocci keeled. Styles very ake 
