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to Bardowie, 800 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5457, 6840, 9035, 12,112 ; near 

 Kingston, 600 ft. Clute ! near Port Antonio, Millspaugh. — ^Bahamas, West 

 Indies, tropical continental America. 



Annual, glabrous, 8-14 inches high. IJeaves subsessile. Stipules short, 

 ciliate, triangular, somewhat truncate, broad in outline. Involucres about 

 1-5 mm. 1., campanulate, glabrous on the outside; lobes triangular- 

 lanceolate, ciliate ; appendages obovate-roundish or transversely elliptical. 

 Cocci slightly keeled. Seed ovoid-4-angled. 



6. E. niPUPioides comb. nov. ; stems erect or ascending, red, 

 woody ; leaves obovate to oblong, obtuse, serrulate, especially at 

 the upper third ; stipules deltoid, thick, margin glandular- 

 dotted, •8-*9mm. 1. ; cymes terminal, dense; appendages white 

 or pink, roundish ; seeds blackish with yellowish angles, with 

 a few indistinct and incomplete ridges. — Chamaisyce nirurioides 

 Milhp. in Field Columb. Mus. Bat ii. 394 (1914). Type in Field 

 Mus. Herb. 



Malvern, Britton, 1186 ! 



Annual; plants low, glabrous ; branches 5-10 cm. 1. Leaves S-nervedi. 

 Petiole very short. Involucres long-stalked, campanulate, glabrous ; lobes 

 elongate-triangular, ciliate at apex; glands waxen, roundish, cupped; 

 appendages thrice the diameter of the glands, entire or mostly so. Capsule 

 glabrous; cocci rounded. Seeds triangular-ovoid, 1 mm. 1., -8 mm. br. 



Near E. brasiliensis, from which it is readily distinguished by its 

 yellowish seed-angles, glandular-dotted stipules, and a striking resemblance 

 in habit to Phyllanthus Niruri. 



The description is taken from Millspaugh. We have seen only a small 

 portion of Dr. Britton's original specimen presented by him to Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. 



7. E. hyssopifolia L. Syst. ed. 10, 1018 (1759) & Sp. PI. 

 ed. 2, 651 ; stem erect, simple or branched, somewhat flexuose, 

 branches spreading and somewhat dichotomous, flowering 

 branches very slender ; leaves narrowly oblong, blunt, almost 

 ligulate, mostly entire, sometimes sparingly toothed, 1-3 cm. 1. ; 

 smaller (becoming bracts) on flowering branches ; cymes mostly 

 terminal, lax ; appendages large, Avhite (or pink) ; capsule 

 2-2 • 5 mm. in diam. ; seeds olive-green, with few very incon- 

 spicuous transverse ridges. — Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 355. E. dicho- 

 toma &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 235. E. hypericifolia L. var. hyssopi- 

 folia Griaeh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 54 (1859). E. brasiliensis Lam. var. 

 hyssopifolia Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 24 (1862) ; Fawc. Fl. 

 PI. Jam. 34. Chamsesyce hyssopifolia Small Bull. N.Y. Bat. 

 Gard. Hi. 429 (1905) & Fl. S.E. U.S. ed. 2, 1349; Millsp. in 

 Field Columb. Mus. Bat. ii. 397. Browne's specimen, the type, 

 is in Herb. Linn. 



Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 130 I Broivne 1 Kingston, Prior ! Green 

 VaUey, 1800 ft. ; Grove, St. Andrew ; road to Constitution Hill, 1600 ft. ; 

 Harris 1 PI. Jam. 6457, 6840, 9036.— Cuba, Is. of Pines, Hispaniola, Porto 

 Rico, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Grenada, Cura9ao, Florida, tropical 

 continental America, 



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