Tabula 2880. 



SAPIUM PALLIDUM, KlolzscJi. 



EuPHOKBiACEAE. Tribus Crotoneae. 



S. pallidum, KlolzscJi in herhariis nonnuUis ; Huher in Bull. 

 IJcrh, Boiss. ser. 2, vol. vi. p. 450, f. 44 ; species foliis mcdiocribus 

 oblongis coiispicue rcticulato-venosis suLtus pallidis distinctissima. 



Frutex ramis florigeris gracilibus purpureis, internodiis petiolos vix 

 aequantibus. Folii lamina coriacea, oblonga vel oblongo-Ianceolata, 

 2'5-7 cm. longa, utrmque obtusa vel rotundata, margine Integra vcl 

 obscurissime serrulata, supra nitida, subtus pallida, venis iusignitor 

 reticulatis, costa facie inferiorc elevata ; petiolus O'5-l cm. longus, 

 glaiidulis ovoideis coiitiguis sessilibus inconspicue porosis. Spicae plures, 

 ramos breves terminantcs, 5-7 cm. longae, androgynae vel masculac- 

 Bracteae integrae ; glandulae ellipticae vel oblongae. Perianthrmn 

 9nascidum bipartitum, segmentis rotundatis. Periarithium femineum 

 trilobatum, quam ovarium brevius, lobis triangularibus obtusiusculis, 

 Styli rami 3, sessiles, recurvi, — Sapium higlandulosum var. pallida^ 

 Muell.-Arg. in Linnaea, vol. xxxii. p. IIG. Excoccaria higlandulosa 

 var. pallida^ Muell.-Arg. in DC Prodr. vol. xv. 2, p. 1205. Excoccaria 

 pallida, Muell.-Arg. in Fl. Bras. vol. xi. 2, p. 623. 



This very distinct species appears to have been collected by no 

 traveller since Riedel, for neither Mueller nor Huber records any other 

 specimens. — W. Bottixg Hemsley. 



Brazil : Bahia ; Serra Jacobina, Blanchet, 2689, 



Fig. I, base of petiole and stipules attached to axis ; 2, base of leaf and petiolur 

 glands ; 3, part of male infloroscence ; 4, an expanded male flower and detached 

 bractcolcs ; 5, female flower with bract and glands. All enlarged. 



