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Pedilanthus tithymaloides (L.) Poit., Slipper-flower, of tropical 

 America, is similar to the preceding species, but has nearly straight stems, 

 ovate-lanceolate, longer leaves with the midveiu produced into a flange beneath. 

 It has been recorded by several authors as grown in Bermuda, but all the 

 plants seen here by me belong to P. latifoUus. 



Codiaeum variegatum (L.) Blume, Garden Crotons, shrubs with ever- 

 green, variously colored and mottled leaves varying from linear to broadly 

 ovate, entire or lobed, the small greenish flowers in long racemes, are grown 

 in a great number of races for ornament and thrive luxuriantly. A very in- 

 teresting bud-sport of a lanceolate-leaved branch on a linear-leaved race was 

 observed at Harrington House in 1912. [Croton variegatus L.] 



Euphorbia lactea Haw., Mottled Candlestick Tree, East Indian, a 

 fleshy, nearly leafless plant 6°-12° high, the spreading 3-angled branches 

 whitish or yellowish-blotched, knobby, with a short double spine on the end 

 of each knob, is grown for interest in many gardens. Its copious sap is 

 bright white. 



Euphorbia fulgens Karwinsky, Scarlet Plume, Mexican, recorded by 

 Lefroy as introduced in 1874, is a slender shrub with long drooping unarmed 

 branches, and lanceolate, long-petioled leaves, the scarlet-bracted involucres 

 in axillary cranes. 



Euphorbia splendens Bojer, Crowx-of-thorxs, Madagascan, a shrub with 

 slender, vinelike branches, copiously armed with stout spines A'-l' long, the 

 obovate or spatulate. thin leaves 3' long or less, the involucres in terminal 

 cymes, subtended by 2 bright-red, ovate, involucral bracts, is grown in gardens 

 for ornament and interest. 



Euphorbia Nivulia Ham., LxVrge Tubercled Spurge, East Indian, a 

 milky-sapped, fleshy plant 6° high or more with tubercled stems and branches, 

 the tubercles in vertical rows, each tipped by 2 short spines, the oblanceolate, 

 thick, obtuse, concave, short-petioled, bright green leaves 3'-6' long, apparently 

 veinless when fresh, the red sessile, staminate involucres solitary or few 

 together above the tubercles and about 3" broad, the pistillate 3 together, 

 is occasionally planted for ornament and interest. The very old plant at 

 Bishop's Lodge, from w^hich cuttings were taken to the New York Botanical 

 Garden in 1914, is this species, erroneously recorded by H. B. Small, Jones 

 and Verrill as Euphorbia Candelabrum. 



Synadenium Grantii Hook., Grant's Synadenium, of tropical Africa, 

 shown by a fine plant at the Public Garden, St. George's in 1913, is a fleshy, 

 unarmed plant up to 10° high, with round stems and branches, the obovate or 

 oblanceolate, short-petioled, pinnately veined, thick leaves 3'-5' long, clustered 

 at the ends of the branches; the small red involucres are in stalked terminal 

 forked cymes. 



Aleurites moluccana (L.) Willd., Otaheite Walnut, of the South Sea 

 Islands, a rather large tree, with large broad petioled sharply 3-lobed 

 leaves, puberulent panicles of small whitish monoecious flowers and fleshy 

 l_2-seeded fruits about 2' thick, is occasionally grown on lawns and in 

 gardens for ornament and interest, and has locally become abundant. Often 

 called Butternut. [Jatropha moluccana L. ; A. triloba Forst.] 



Hura crepitans L., Sandbox-tree, West Indian, a large tree with long- 

 petioled broadly ovate long-tipped leaves, the flattened round fruits 3 or 4 

 inches across, splitting violently and noisily into many thin dry crescent-shaped 

 carpels, is occasional in gardens. A fine old specimen may be seen in the 

 Public Garden at St. George's where it forms the center-piece. 



Triadica sebifera (L.) J. K. Small, Chinese Tallow-tree. Asiatic, a 

 tree with thin slender-petioled, broadly ovate, short-acuminate leaves, as wide 

 as long or wider, small monoecious flowers without petals, in narrow panicles, 



