Euphorbia EUPHORBIACEil*; 345 



times scale-like, opposite, at the topmost nodes. — Griseh. Fl. Br. 

 W. Ind. 52 ; Boiss. in DC. Prodi: xv, pt. 2, 76. Pyretrum 

 aphyllon Plum. PI. Amer. (Burm.) t. 234, Jig. 1. Type in 

 Herb. Kew. 



Eocky wood above Christiana, Purdie ! near Troy, 2500 ft. Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam, 9098. 



Plant, 1-8 ft. high, glabrous; stems v/oody, terete, glaucous-green; 

 branches in whorls of three or more, more or less drooping, compressed. 

 Invohicrcs solitary or in clusters, terminal, and at the nodes near the ends 

 of branches ; terminal cluster of three involucres, or composed of two 

 involucres below opposite, and of three terminal, with narrow leaf-like 

 bracteoles ; involucres glabrous, hairy inside ; lobes fringed .with minute 

 teeth; glands fleshy; appendages roundish. Probably dioecious. Male 

 flowers only known. Capsule not known. 



17. E. punieea Sw. Prodr. 76 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 873; 

 small trees ; branches rather thick, leafy at the ends, leafless 

 below and marked with the scars of the fallen leaves ; leaves 

 oblanceolate to obovate ; bracts scarlet ; cymes corymbose with 

 one or several heads, subterminal or from the axils at the 

 extreme ends of branches ; glands outside the involucre, below 

 the margin. — Jacq. Collect, in. 179 k Ic. PI. Bar. t. 484; Ait. 

 Hort. Kew. U. 143; Sm. Ic. Pict. t. 3; Bot. Beg. t. 190; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1961; Descourt. Fl. Ant. Hi. 191, t. 194; Qrigeh. Fl. Br. 

 W. Ind. 54 ; Boiss. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 105 ; Millsp. torn. cit. 

 164 ; Urh. Sijmh. Ant. v. 394, ohs. d- 395, Jig. A, B. Poinsettia 

 punieea Klotzscli & Garcke in Monatsh. Akad. Berl. (1859) 102. 

 Eui>horbiodendron puniceum Millsp. torn. cit. 305 (1909). 



Wild Physic Nut. 



Shakspearl Swariz ; Waters] Wilson \ J.P. 1034, Liberty Hill, St. Ann, 

 Miss Steniiettl Dolphin Head, 1600 ft.; Stanmore Hill, 2200 ft.; near 

 Malvern, 2200 ft. ; Negril woods, near liglithouse, 300 ft. ; Peckham wood- 

 land, Clarendon, 2500-2800 ft. ; Mt. Pleasant, Stony Hill, 1100 ft. ; Harris ! 

 PI. Jam. 9267, 9962, 9985, 10,241, 10,865, 11,146.— Bahamas, Cuba. 



Tree, 12-30 ft., to 9 inches in diam., abounding in acrid milky juice, 

 much branched, glabrous. Leaves 7-15 cm. 1., 2-3 cm. br., apex obtuse, 

 sometimes acute, mucronulate, gradually narrowing to a very short petiole, 

 when dry membranous, those nearest the corymbs sometimes more or less 

 coloured. Bracts 2-3, l'5-4 cm. 1., elliptical to obovate. Involucre 

 6-7 mm. 1., cylindrical-campanulate ; lobes very short, triangular, sub- 

 acuminate, entire ; glands 4-6, campanulatc, attached at the back. Styles 

 united beyond the middle, branches entire. Capsule about 1 cm. in diam. 

 Seeds ovate, apiculate (fide Boissier). 



18. E. troyana Urh. Symh. Ant. v. li^i, with Jig. (1908); small 

 trees ; branches rather thick, leafy at the ends, leafless below 

 and marked with the scars of the fallen leaves ; leaves narrowly 

 oblong to oblong-lanceolate, sometimes oblanceolate ; bracts 

 scarlet ; involucres solitary at the apex of branches ; glands 

 situated outside, near the middle of the involucre, decurrent. — 

 Euphorbiodendron troyanura Millsp. loc. cit. (1909). 



