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Smooth Spurge. 31 'die r, 

 Sea-Side Milk-Weed. 

 atropiir- E. caule tricliotomo, ramis geniculalis, 

 jnirea. foliis teriiis ovato-laaccolatis subcordatis 



longc petiolatis coloratis subtus glaucis, 

 braiiteis linearibus subquaternis deciduis, 



umbella multilida radiis subquadrifidis^ 

 invohicris obtusis basi connalis. M — , t? 



E. ati'opurpurca. Spreng. S^st, 3. p, 790 ? 



Dark Purple Spurge. Suwet. 



Indian Rubber Tree.* 

 hjiwTtci- E. dichotoma, foliis serratis ovali-ob- 

 folia:\' longis glabris, corymbis terminalibus 



ramis divaricatis. W'dhL Sp. PL 2. p, 

 895. HorL Ketv. 3. p. IGl. ' AuhL 



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* This shrubby tree g-ene rally goes by the name of the Indian 

 lliibber in Barbados, but the appcUalion is also applied lo the 

 Ficus elastica, lately introduced into the island, and at present a 

 rare exotic. I cannot be confident that 1 am right in making- it 

 identical with the E. atropurpurca of Sprengel. By altogether 

 excluding- from his plan a reference to authors^ Sprengel has 

 g-reatiy increased the difficulty of recognising^ his species, and 

 thereby circumscribed the usefulness of his work. 



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t I have excluded Browne's syuonyme, admitted by Willde- 

 ijow, as it undoubtedly must belong- to some other species. 

 Sloanc^s Tithymalus is certainly the Barbados plant in question. 



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He describes it as having- "one red stalk dividing- itself into 

 several green round branches, rising- ten inches hie"h.'^ This 



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