10 NEOBQT, 



cent Akena or nut bilocular disperme, outside 

 compressed discoidal rugose, 2 sides compressed 

 sulcate, edges echinate, integument thick and 

 hard, 2 oblong seeds inside. Herbaceous, leaves 

 opposite, flowers in slender spikes a most 

 singular N. G. with very peculiar fruit, proba- 

 bly akin to the EUPHORBIDES, or rather TRAGI- 

 DES, but the male flowers are required to ascer- 

 tain positively the natural affinities, perhaps 

 even a typical Genus if they have 4 stamens in- 

 serted on a similar calix. The name means 

 discus armed. 



741. DISCOPLIS SERRATA Raf. stem weak 

 2-3chotome flexuose smooth, leaves remote pe- 

 tiolate ovate serrate acute ; spikes terminal 

 filiform, bracts oblong longer than short pedun- 

 cles. From South Florida and Cuba, my spe- 

 cimens one foot high collected by Kin, stem fus- 

 cate, leaves acute at both ends yet subdeltoid 

 and even sometime subcordate, some white 

 hairs scattered above, spikes subracemose naked 

 slender 3 to 4 inches long, with minute bracts, 

 flowers small subsessile, the lower ones com- 

 monly abortive, remote and green, quite hairy. 



742. PLANTAGO MULTINERVIS Raf. Sea pose, 

 leaves petiolate subpilose broad lanceolate, at- 

 tenuate at both ends, remotely dentate 9 nerved; 

 scape longer sulcate hirsute, spike elongate, 

 flowers scattered or interrupted, flowers smooth, 

 calix carinate, bracts subequal ovate acute, 

 style elongate persistent found in Florida by 

 Kin (Col. Herb.) near to PL interrupta which 

 differs by entire leaves, with few nerves, shorter 

 leaves and flowers, short bracts, calix not cari- 

 nate &c . . . Here the leaves are 6 to 8 inches 

 long, nearly 2 broad, spikes 6 to 10 inches long. 

 Capsule disperme. 



