234 EUPHORBIACEAE. 



puberulent; madder-lake in color ; inferior cleft of the tube shallow, the superior 

 fissure open half the length of the tube; main lobes blunt, finely erose-lacerate, 

 the two lateral lobes minute, free only at the apex, the fifth lobe flabelliform, 

 free half its length; anthers glabrous; female pedicel puberulent; style very 

 slightly trifid; appendix narrow, about one half the length of the tube, sarcous, 

 usually sigmoid^ the lobe blunt, slightly notched, strongly gibbous at the base; 

 glands 2, stipitate; capsule flattened-globose ; seeds trigonal, olivaceous, the 

 dorsal angle quite prominent, apiculate and with a minute raised pimple at the 

 apex, 3 X 2.5 mm. 



Stony floor of scrub-lands, Deep Creek, Andros, Atwood Cay, Acklin's Island, 

 Inagua, South Caicos and Grand Turk to Salt Cay. Endemic. Bahama Fiddle- 

 flower. MONKEV-FIDDLB. 



25. ADENORIMA Raf. Fl. Tellur. 4: 112. 1838. 



Trees with thick branches- and profuse thick milky juice. Leaves clustered 

 at the ends of the branches, entire. Cymes corymbose, terminal and super- 

 axillary. Involucres large; glands 4, on the outer wall of the involucre below 

 its lip. Styles more or less connate below, bifid into long branches, the apices 

 rarely thickened. Capsule 3-coccus; seeds smooth, ecarunculate. [Greek, 

 gland-pit.] Fifteen species, or more, of the West Indies and Mexico. Type 

 species: Euphorbia punicea Sw. 



1. Adenorima gymnonota (Urban) Millsp. 



Euphorbia gymnonota Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 396. 1908. 

 Euphorbiodendron gymnonotum Millsp. Field. Mus. Bot. 2: 305. 1909. 



A tree, 6-6.5 m. high, the branches fleshy, dichotomous. Leaves alternate, 

 linear-oblanceolate, 4-8 X .8-1. .4 cm., entire, membranous, narrowed to the 

 sessile base, the apex rounded-mucronate or aeute-mucronate; inflorescence 5-7- 

 flowered, terminal; bracts crimson, ovate; involucre urceolate, the margin entire 

 or sparingly crenate-dentate; glands 4, ovate to ovate-oblong, vertically placed 

 at or just above the middle of the tube, exappendiculate, fleshy, concave; style 

 short, 3-fid; capsule 3-angled, smooth; seed globose, gray, 4 mm. in diameter, 

 the outer gray coat broken through in places revealing the inner dark, irregular 

 markings. 



Margins of thickets, Watling's Island, Crooked, Fortune and Acklin's Islands ; 

 Little and Great Inagua ; South Caicos ; Ambergris Cay. Endemic. Referred to in 

 various Bahama publications as Eupliorhia punicea Sw. Bahama Adexorima. 



26. EUPHORBIA Linn. Sp. PI. 450. 1753. 



Cactus-like shrubs with thick fleshy, generally angular stems, and few 

 reduced true leaves or none. Leaves and stipules generally represented by spines 

 but often by small or minute caducous bracts. Cymes lateral or terminal, sub- 

 sessile, often few-flowered or even single-flowered; involucres subtended by 

 dilated bractlets; glands of the involucre entire, exappendiculate. Capsules 

 thick, often ligneous; seeds ecarunculate. [Commemorates Euphorbus, King 

 Juba's physician.] About 30 species, of the Old World. Type species: 

 Euphorbia antiquorum L. 



1. Euphorbia lactea Haw. Syn. PI. Succ. 127. 1812. 



A tall, dark-green, many-branched, spinous milky-juiced shrub, 2-5 m. 

 high, the branches 3-angled, the faces 3-8 cm. broadj plano-convex, the angles 



