Argytha-mnia 



EUPHOliBIACE.E 



287 



axillary spike-like 2-sexual racemes, each subtended by a bract, 

 the upper flowers male, the lower (1-3) female ; the glands of the 

 disk alternate with the petals. Male flowers : Calyx-segments 

 4(-5), valvate. Petals 4(-5). Stamens 4(-5) ; filaments united 

 at the ver}' base ; anthers dorsifixed. Female flowers : Sepals 5, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, minute. Ovary 3 -eel led ; styles spreading, 

 variously cut ; ovules solitary in the- cells. Capsule breaking up 

 into three 2-valved cocci. Seeds without a caruncle. 



Species 55, natives of tropical and subtemperate America, 

 including the West Indies. 



A. eandieans Sw. Prodr.' 39 (1788) ik Fl. Ind. Oce. 336, /. 8 : 

 Jimieu Euphorh. Tent. t. 7 ; Baill. Etud. Euphorb. /. 15,/. 30-36 ; 



Fig. 92. — Argiithamnia candicctns Sw. 



A, Portion of branch witli inflor- C, Female flower x 4. 



escence x 5. D, Capsule X 3. 



B, Male flower X 7. E, Seed x 4. 



Griseh. FL Brit. W. Lid. 44 ; Muell. Anj. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 

 741 (Argyrothamnia) ; IJrh. Symh. Ant. iv. 344 ; Pax in Engl. 

 Pflanzenreich iv. 147, vi. 80. Ricino affinis odorifera. . .dilute 

 purpureo Sloane Cat. 44 & Hist. i. 133, t. 86,/. 3. A. fruticosa 

 albida &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 338. (Fig. 92.) Type in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. Specimen from Swartz in Herb. Stockholm. 



Near St. Jago de la Vega, Sloane Herb. ii. 92 ! Browne ; Wright I Loug 

 Mt., Broughtonl Swartz \ Bertero ; Macfadyen\ banks of Negro R. ; sea 

 coast, Trelawney ; Piirdie ! Wilson ! White Iliver, Prior ! March ! J.P. 618, 

 Morris\ foot of Long Mountam ; Ferry Pen; CampbelV. Jjiicea, Hitchcock ; 



