Adelia EUPHORBIACEJ^ 293 



5 mm. 1., puberulous, flattened-globular-3-lobed. Seeds globular, 3 mm. 

 in diam., light brown. 



2. A. hsemiolandra Pax in Englcr's Pjianzenreich iv. 147. 

 vi. 77 (1912); lea\es oblanceolate ; stamens 15, springing from 

 a central column, ten about halfway, five higher up. — Ditaxis 

 hsemiolandra Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 44 (1859). Ricinella 

 hsemiolandra MueU. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 730 (1866). 

 Type in Herb. Kew. 



Macfadyen ! Purdie ! 



Shmb with white bark, branches sometimes with axillary spines, 

 glabrous. Leaves 4-7 (3-8) om. 1. ; petiole 3-4 mm. 1. Male flowers: 

 Pedicels about as long as the flower. Calyx tomentellous outside, about 

 3 mm. 1., sepals more or less equal, oblong-ovate, acute. Disk irregularly 

 lobed, lobes opposite sepals. Female flowers not seen. 



12. LASIOCROTON Griseb. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, nerves pinnate. Flowers 

 monoecious or dioecious, without petals, in spikes, or racemes, or 

 panicles, which are solitary in the upper axils ; the male spikes 

 with flowers densely crowded in clusters, the female racemes 

 long, lax, with several stalked distant flowers ; pedicels jointed. 

 Male flowers : Calyx ovoid, closed in bud, at length splitting 

 into five valvate segments. Disk poorly developed. Stamens 

 8 to 18. Rudiment of ovary wanting. Female flowers : Calyx 

 small, 5-parted, spreading, open in bud. Disk thick, entiie. 

 Ovary 3 -celled; styles very shortly united below, short, thick, 

 undivided or 2-lobed, apex very shortly fringed ; ovules solitary. 

 Capsule deeply 3-lobed-globular, splitting up into three 2-valved 

 cocci. Seeds globular, without a caruncle. 



Species 3 or 4, natives of Jamaica, Bahamas and Cuba. 



Venation of leaves beneath very prominent. Styles 



not cleft halfway 1. L, macrophyllus. 



Venation of leaves beneath not prominent. Styles 

 2-cleft halfway. 



Leaves glabrous beneath. Petioles long, 



7-2-5 cm. 1 2. L. Faioccitii. 



Leaves tomentcse beneath. Petioles short, 



2-1 cm. 1 3. L. Harrisii. 



1. L. macrophyllus Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 46 (1859); 

 leaved 5-14 cm. 1., roundish, elliptical, or ovate, apex acute, 

 obtuse, .or rounded, base slightly cordate, leathery, tomentose 

 and soft to the touch on both sides, nerves and veins Aery 

 prominent beneath, more or less evident above, two on each side 

 near the base; petioles 1*5-4 cm. 1., tomentose; styles not 

 divided. — MueU. Arg. in DC. Prodr, xv. pt- 2, 955 ; MilJsp. in 



