346 FLORA OF JAMAICA Euphorbia 



Near Troy, 2000-2600 ft.; Peckham Woods, Clarendon, 2500 ft.; 

 Hams ! Fl. Jam. 8751, 9078, 10,970. 



Tree 20-30 ft. high. Leaves 4-8 cm. 1., 7-1 "5 cm. br., apex rounded, 

 mucronulate, entire, leathery. Bracts 3 to several, obovate (sometimes 

 oblong), 1*5-3 cm. 1. Involucres sessile or rarely with a pedicel (3 mm. 1.), 

 subcylindrical, 5-6 mm. 1., glabrous outside ; lobes 8, apiculate ; glands 8, 

 campanulate, fleshy. Style with trifid apex. Cai)sule (immature) 

 1*1-1 "2 cm. 1., glabrous, smooth. 



[E. Peplus L. Sp. PL 456 (1753); an annual herb; leaves 

 elliptical, obovate, or roundish, tapering into the petiole, 

 alternate below the umbellate inflorescence ; leaf-like bracts 

 sessile, broadly deltoid-ovate, opposite on the branches of the 

 umbel ; involucres solitary, in the forks, or axillary, or terminal ; 

 glands on the margin, 2-horued. — Syma Eng. But. viii. 1 1 1 . /. 1 265 ; 

 Fl. Dan. t. 1100; Beichh. Ic. Germ. t. 4775; Oriseh. Fl. Br. 

 W. Ind. 54; Boiss. in DO. Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 141; Millspaugh 

 torn. cit. 67. 



Port Boyal Mts., McNabl March; Cinchona, 5000 ft.; Kingston; 

 Clute ! Cinchona, Harris ! Fl. Jam. 8580. Blue Mt. Peak, Hitchcock. A 

 weed of cultivation throughout Europe and Russian Asia. 



Herb, 8-15 inches high, erect, branching, glabrous. Leaves (*5-2 cm. 1.) 

 and bracts entire, glabrous. Umbel usually 8-rayed, often with one or 

 more ray-like branches below it. Invohocres cup-shaped, glabrous; 

 lobes 5, oblong, minutely fringed ; glands 4, transversely oblong, with an 

 awl-shaped horn at each end. Styles short, each with two branches. 

 Capsule about 2 mm. in diam., 3-cornered, with two very narrow wings 

 along each angle, glabrous. Seeds about 1*5 mm. 1., oblong, slightly 

 6-angled, with three or four pits on the four outer faces, and a longitudinal 

 groove on the two inner faces, grey-coloured; caruncle yellowish.] 



30. PEDILANTHUS Neck. 



Shrubs with fleshy branches and milky juice. Leaves 

 alternate, entire ; leaf-like bracts opposite ; stipules represented 

 by small glands. Several male flowers and one female flower 

 enclosed within an involucre, a " cyathium." Involucres oblique, 

 shoe-shaped ; the tube fissured above and notched below at the 

 mouth, made up of two main broad lobes, free above (the fissure) 

 and united on the opposite side nearly to the apex (the notch), 

 with two lateral and one median accessory lobes more or less closing 

 the fissure, the two lateral lobes shorter and more or less united 

 with the main lobes along their fissural margin, the fifth lobe 

 partially united with the base of the lateral lobes or sometimes 

 entirely free. Appendix at the base of the tube, extending 

 above the lower end of the fissure, swollen below, 2- or 3-lobed at 

 the apex, but in Jamaican species two lobes appear to be united 

 almost or quite to the apex. Glands 4, two inside the lower part 

 of the appendix, and two near the junction of the appendix 

 and the tube. Male flowers within the involucre, numerous. 

 Perianth none. Stamen 1, the short filament jointed with the 



