Euphorbia EUPHOKBIACE^ 341 



grey, transversely ridged. — Hook. Exot. Fl. i. t. 36 ; Griaeh. op. 

 cit. 54 (excl. var. (3 and y) ; Baill. Etud. t. 1, /. 30; Boiss. torn, 

 cit. 23; Millsp. in Field Columb. Mus. Bat. i'i. 64, 163, 395; 

 Urh. Symb. Ant. iv. 354; Brown in Fl. Trop. A/r. vi. sect. 1, 498 

 & Fl. Cap. V. sect. 2, 248. E. pilulifera L. Sp. PI. 454 (1753), 

 Amoen. Hi. 115 & Herb. (excl. syn. Burm.) (non auct.). E. minima 

 reclinata &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 235. E. inermis foliis oppositis 

 oblique. &c. L. Fl. Zeyl. 89 & Hermann's specimen no. 198 in 

 Herb. i. 74. Tithymalus erectus acris &,c. Shane Gat. 82 & 

 Hist. i. 197, f. 126. Chamaesyce hypericifolia Millsp. tom. cit. 302 

 (1909). (Fig. 113.) A specimen from Swartz in Herb. Stockholm. 



Sloane Herb. ill. 117, Ixxxii. 94 1 Wright 1 Broughton ! Swartz ! 

 Baiicroftl Distinl pastures, St. Andrew, McNabl cane-fields, St. Thomas 

 in the East, Purdiel Metcalfe \ Port Antonio, Millspaugh ; Constant 

 Spring, Bog Walk ; Port Morant ; Port Antonio ; Lucea ; HitcJicock ; 

 King's House, T. J. Harris ! Hope, 600 ft. ; Stony Hill, 1200 ft. ; near 

 Troy, 1800 ft.; Harris I Fl. Jam. 6778, 6803, 11,134, 12,646.— Widely 

 distributed throughout tropical and subtropical regions. 



Annual 3-18 inches high. Stems glabrous, or rarely young parts 

 minutely puberulous. Leaves glabrous or slightly pubescent ; petiole very 

 short. Stipules variable, usually 1-2 mm. 1., ovate to lanceolate, serrate 

 to fringed. Bracts linear, acuminate, 1-1*4 mm. 1. Involucres about 

 1 mm. 1., campanulate, glabrous or puberulous; lobes awl-shaped, ciliate ; 

 glands with a white, transversely elliptical appendage. Capsule 3-cornered- 

 globular, glabrous. Seeds 4-angled, about 1 mm. 1. 



An infusion of the dried leaves is recommended as a remedy in 

 diarrhoea, dysentery, &c., affecting the system as an astringent and feeble 

 narcotic (Watt). 



9. E. prostrata Ait. Hort. Kew. H. 139 (1789); prostrate, 

 bi-anches minutely puberulous along a median line on the upper 

 side ; involucres axillary, glabrous, each with two leaf-like 

 bracts, forming a very short raceme, sometimes the internodes 

 are very short, and there is a cluster of two or three, each with 

 its bracts ; capsule hirtellous along the keeled edges, otherwise 

 glabrous, 1 mm. or more in diani. ; seeds pale red or purplish, 

 acutely 4-angled, with about six transverse ridges. — Griseb. Fl, 

 Br. W. Ind. 53 ; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 47 & Ic. Euphorb. 

 t. 17 ; Muell. Arcj. in Fl. Bras. xi. pt. 2, 683; Millsp. in Bot. 

 Gaz. XXV. 19, with a Jig. <k Field Columb. Mus. Bot. ii. 66, 164 ; 

 Urb. tom. cit. 356 ; Brown in Fl. Trop. Afr. vi. sect. 1, 510 & 

 Fl. Gap. V. sect. 2, 245. E. minima &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 236. 

 Chamiesyce prostrata /Sm«/Z Fl. S.E. TJ. States 713 (1903); Mills}), 

 tom. cit. 303, 406. Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. Browne's specimen 

 in Herb. Linn, is named E. Ghamsesyce by Linnaeus. 



Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 130 ! Broione ! Wright ! Broughton ! Distin I 

 Kingston, Briorl Marchl Aruottl J. P. 1007, Morris \ Jackson Town, 

 Miss A. Moulton-Barreft \ New Market, 1150 ft.; Hope grounds, 700 ft., 

 Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 9882, 11,803. — Native of tropical America, whence it has 

 been introduced into other tropical and subtropical regions. 



Annual. Stems -5-2 dm. 1., with numerous slender branches. Leaves 



