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NATdRAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



employed for the same purpose as E. p?dclierrima,^ the species of 

 DdJerJiampia with petaloid iuvoluore,^ and of BupUorhia with white 

 streaked leaves. The magnitif'eut leaves of certain species of 

 Macnranga and Carumb'mm^ those sometimes so delicate of several 

 species of Phjllantkus^ which are simple, and whose branches always 

 imitate compound leaves, those again of our beantiful varieties of 

 BieiniiH, make of all these species vciy ornamental plants. By their 

 leaf-shaped cladodes, the species of Phijl/unilius oïth.Q section AO///0- 

 phlUa are of the number of plants which, in our greenhouses, excite 

 most curiosity. 



1 W. Htrh. n. 9259.— £. Coccinea W.—Jl. 

 diversifnlifi W. — E. erytlirophylla Bertol. — 

 Pleuradeiriit coccinea Rafin. — Pomsdtiapiilcher- 

 rima Ghaii. in Ediiib. now Phil. Juiirn. [March, 

 1836) ; in B.t. Mag. t. 3493. The bracts are 

 yellow, more often red, and are iised for dyeing. 

 In E. fulgens Kaew. more often cultivated 

 under the name of E. juequinirefoliu (HoOK. in 



But. Mag. t. 3G73), the part coloured red is the 

 perianth. 



- Principally D. RœzUaiia (M. Auo. Prodr. 

 1223, n. 2), which is probably only a variety, 

 with bracts frequently coloured, of J). {Crcmo- 

 phtjlbi'm)spatha!afa H. Bx. (Et. Gen. Euphorbiac. 

 58^ t. 3, fig. 16-30). 



