Pedilanthuis 



EUl'HORBlACBi*; 



347 



pedicel. Female flower solitary in the centre of the involucre. 

 Perianth of three minute scales or wanting. Ovary sessile at the 

 top of the pedicel, 3-celled ; styles united into a long protruding 

 column, very shortly free at the apex, the branches entire or 

 2-cleft. Ovules solitary in each cell. Capsule breaking up 

 elastically from the persistent axis into three 2-valved cocci. 

 Seeds with endosperm ; caruncle wanting ; cotyledons broad. 



Species 31, natives of tropical America from Mexico to 

 northern Brazil and the West Indies. 



Leaves and involucres hoary 1. P. Grisebachii. 



Leaves and involucres not hoary. 



■ Leaves obovate to oblanceolato 2. P. jamaicensis, 



[Leaves ovate to ovate- orbicular P. latifolius.'] 



1. P. Grisebachii Milhjj. d- Britton in Field Col. Mus. Bot. ii. 

 361 (1913) ; leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear, narrowed to 

 the base, hoary, 1-3 cm. 1.^ 3-4 mm. br. ; involucres hoary 



Fiy. m.—Pedilanthiis. 



A, Cyathium of P. jamaicensis Millsp. 



& Britton X 2. ^ I 



B, Ditto of an older flower of same X 2 ; 



i, involucre with/, Assure ; a, appen- 

 dix with g, glands ; t, tube of invo- 

 lucre ; I, lateral lobe ; m, median 



lobe ; u, ovary ripening into the 



capsule ; s, stylar cohinm. 

 t', Capsule of P. Grisebachii Millsp. & 



Britton X 3. 

 1), Seed of ditto X 3. 



without, glabrous within ; male pedicel glabrous, female pedicel 

 puberulous. (Fig. 114, c, d.) Type in Herb. N, York Bot. 

 Gard. 



Long Mt. above Rock Fort, Broiujhton ! near Bull Bay, Harris ! also 

 Britton 3677 ! Fl. Jam. 9645, 12,117.— Porto Rico (fide Millspaugh). 



Shrtibby j)lant, 3-6 ft. high. Leaves only on the young branches. 

 Cyt>ies terminal on the branches. Invohicres 6 "5-9 mm. 1., scarlet; tube 



