EUPHOKBIACEAE. 221 



calyx-segments 5, ovate; anthers sessile on the top of the column, globose, 

 contiguous; styles short, included; capsule depressed-globose, 2 mm. broad; 

 seeds evenly striated on the back. 



Sandy nlaces and cultivated grounds from Andros to Turks Islands : Bermuda ; 

 Florida ; West Indies and continental tropical America ; Old World tropics. GALE- 

 OF-WIND. 



2. Phyllanthus pruinosus Poepp.; A. Eich. in Sagra, Hist. Cub. 11: 216. 1850. 



PhyllantMs saxicola Smal^ Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 428. 1905. 



Annual or perennial, glabrous; stem 0.5-4 dm. tall, simple or irregularly 

 branched. Leaves relatively numerous, erect or nearly so, leathery, oblong, 

 oblong-obovate or cuneate, 4-12 mm. long, obtuse, entire, bright-green, short- 

 petioled; flowers very short-pedicelled ; calyx of the female flowers less than 

 3 mm. wide at maturity its lobes obovate; disk rather angular; capsule 

 spheroidal, barely 2 mm. wide; seeds less than 1 mm. long and nearly as wide, 

 unevenly papillate-lined. 



From Great Bahama southward to Acklin's Island : Florida ; Jamaica ; Cuba. 

 Recorded as P. radicans in Field Mus. Bot. 2 : 151. ROCK PHYLLANTHUS. 



3. Phyllanthus pentaphyllus C. Wright; Griseb. Nachr. Ges. Wiss. Goett. 1865: 



167. 1865. 



Annual ; stems terete, wiry, slender, nearly prostrate, divaricately branched, 

 zig-zag. Leaves obovate, 8-12 mm. long, the base acute, the apex rounded or 

 obtuse, the margin entire and slightly revolute ; petiole about 1 mm. long ; 

 male flowers glomerate, the clusters about 8-12-florous, short-pedicelled; sepals 

 ovate, obtuse, white ; anthers 2 ; female flowers solitary, pedicellate, the pedicels 

 bisetaceous at the base; sepals not white-margined; styles very short, 2-lobed, 

 recurved; capsule small, depressed, about as long as the fruiting pedicel; seed 

 minutely striate, the faint lines more scaly than papillate. 



Low sandy meadows, Eleuthera and Mariguana : Florida ; Cuba. TUFTED 

 PHYLLAXTHUS. 



7. DRYPETES Vahl, Eclog. 3: 49. 1807. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves coriaceous, glabrous; stipules deciduous; flowers 

 axillary, fasciculate,, dioecious. Calyx 4-6-partite, its lobes imbricated. Petals 

 none. Stamens 4-6(8-2), distinct; anthers ovoid, introrse. Ovary 2-1-celled 

 its cells 2-ovuled. Fruit drupaceous, usually monospermous by abortion. 

 [Greek, a drupe.] About 10 species, of Florida, the West Indies and Brazil. 

 Type species: Dry petes glauca Vahl. 



Sepals 4, ovary 2-celled ; fruit 6-1-1 mm. in diameter. 1. D. lateriflora. 

 Sepals 8, ovary 1-celled ; fruit about 2 cm. in diameter. 



Leaves ovate, mostly blunt. 2. D. diversifolia. 



Leaves lanceolate, aristo-mucronate. 3. D. mucronata. 



1. Drypetes lateriflora (Sw.) Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 15: 357. 1892. 

 Schaefferia lateriflora Sw. Prodr. 38. 1788. 



Shrub, or sometimes a tree 9.5 m. high. Leaves petiolate, oblong or 

 elliptic, 511.5 cm. long, acute or short-acuminate at base and apex, entire, 

 shining, delicately reticulate-veined beneath; flowers in dense axillary clusters; 

 pedicels shorter than the petioles; calyx campanulate; sepals oblong to ovate, 

 obtuse, pubescent without; stamens 4; drupe subglobose, 6-11 mm. in dia- 

 meter, dark brown, tomentulose. 



Coppices, Great Harbor Cay, Andros, New Providence, Hog Island, and Cay 

 north of Wide Opening : Florida ; Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Jamaica. GUIANA PLUM. 



