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N. Ord. EUPHORBIACEJR, 

 Tribe Hippomanece. 



Genus Stillingia,* Garden, in Linn. Mant. Miill. Arg., 1. c., 

 pp. 11551162; Bam., Hist. PL, v, p. 135. Species 12, 

 natives of tropical regions in both hemispheres. 



241, Stillingia sylvatica, Linn., Mant., p. 126 (1767). 



Queen's Delight. 



8yn.~ Sapium sylvaticum, Tvrrey. 

 Not previously figured. 



Description. Stems numerous from a large woody root, erect 

 or ascending, 1 3 feet high, herbaceous or slightly woody 

 below, simple, umbellately branched above, smooth, terete, with a 

 milky juice. Leaves numerous, alternate, irregularly scattered or 

 crowded, nearly sessile, variable in form from narrow-lanceolate to 

 broad -oval, tapering at base, closely crenate- serrate, with a gland 

 in each crenature, rather thick ; stipules minute, setaceous, deeply 

 divided, early deciduous. Inflorescence arranged upon a thick, 

 terminal, compressed, yellowish axis, afterwards exceeded by the 

 two or more branches which are given off from below its base, 

 2 4 inches long. Flowers unisexual ; the male flowers in 

 dense clusters of 8 or 10, arranged round the spike for nearly 

 its whole length, each cluster in the axil of a thin, broad, acute 

 scale with a scarious margin, and provided on either side with a 

 large, circular, shallow, cup- shaped gland attached by its centre ; 

 the female flowers very few (or none) at the base of the spike, 

 solitary, in the axil of similar bracts to those of the male clusters. 

 Male flowers shortly stalked, consisting of 2 stamens on long 

 filaments connected for half their length and surrounded by (at 

 first enclosed in) a membranous, cup-shaped, two-cleft calyx. 



* Named after Dr. Benjamin Stillingfleet, an English botanist of the 18th 

 century, author of ' Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Natural History, Ac/ 

 1759. ' 



