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B€7'landier.) S em about a foot higli^ from a large oblong-conical starchy root. Leav<*s divided 

 nearly to the base, the lacinite often linear and very narrow ; petioles 2-6 inches long. Flowers 

 in terminal cymes, the alar one only fertile. Corolla purple ; the segments obovate-oblong. 

 Stamens monadelphous only near the base^ 5 of them a little shorter than the other tliree; 

 ^ anthers linear, elongated : 5 glands at the base of the column. Styles short, united below; 



stigmas somewhat thickened, 2-lobed. 



Janipha Loeflingii, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1, p. lOT- Jatropha Janipha, Linn. Ringgold 

 Barracks, lower Rio Grande, June ; Scholt. Stems slender, glabrous. Leaves deeply 3-5-lobed, 

 the lowest lobes smallest and entire, the others (especially the middle one) more or less pan- 

 duriform. Staminate flowers 8-15 in a terminal raceme ; the pedicels scarcely one line long ; calyx 

 tubular and at length salverform ; the segments linear-oblong. Stamens 8; filaments free to the 

 base; 5 of them shorter than the other; 5 small glands at the base of the filaments. Fertile 

 flowers 2, at the base of the staminate raceme, their pedicels at length 6-8 lines long and reflexed. 

 Calyx 5-parted to the base. Ovary globose^ smooth^ sometimes with 1 or 2 filaments bearing 

 1-celled anthers. Styles 3 short; stigmas dilated, cristate-lobed. Ripe fruit not seen. This 

 is intermediate between J. Loeflingii and J. Yuqiiilla, and all are probably forms of one species. 



Janipha Manieot, 5. B. K. I. c. ; var. angustiloba : foliis 5-partitis, laciniis anguste lanceolato- 

 linearibus integerrimis vel undulatis acutis. Santa Cruz and Tubac, Sonora, June — July ; 

 Schott. Near MoLterey, Neuvo Leon j Gregg. No. 1811, Wright. Plant smooth, 1-2 feet from 

 a somewhat shrubby base, branching above. Leaves mostly 5-parted ; the segments 2-5 inches 



long and l|-5 lines wide, usually somewhat undulate and sometimes approaching to panduri- 

 form. Stipules minute and subulate. Racemes 15-20-flowered ; the 2 lowest flowers fertile, 

 the others staminate. Calyx of the staminate flowers greenish-white, broadly campanulate, 

 54obed about half way down ; the lobes oblong. Stamens 10 ; filaments distinct, 5 of them 

 longer than the others ; 5 glands at the base of the column. Calyx of the fertile flower 5-parted 

 to the base. Pistil nearly as in J. Loeflingii. Fruit 3-lobed, the carpels 1-seeded. Seeds 

 4^ lines long, gray, mottled with dark purple. This differs from any form of J. Manihot in our 

 herbarium, but it seems hardly a distinct species. 



AcALYPHA CAROLiNrANA, Walt. Fl Oar. p. 238; Ell. Sk. 2, jo. 645. Ravines near Presidio del 

 Norte, and near the Copper Mines, August — September ; Bigelow. Annual. Staminate spikes 

 axillary, 3-4 lines long ; fertile ones terminal 2-3 inches long. Involucre cut into deep narrow 

 segments. Capsule echinate with short soft spines. Very near A. polystachya of the West Indies, 



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Kew Mexico ; Bigelow. No. 1817 and 1818, Wright. Diflers somewhat from the eastern plant 

 in the longer spikes and the more foliaceous terminal bracts. 



AcALTPHA GRACiLENS, Gray^ 3Ian. Bot. ed. 2, p. 390. Western Texas, Wright. More common 



southward and westward than the last. 



AcALYPHA PHLEOiDES ((7ai;.F): suffruticosa ; foliis ovatis subsessilibus serratis; spicis terminali- 



bus solitariis androgyonis superne masculis inferne foemineis ; involucris 5-dentatis. A. phleoides. 



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hahuila, Sonora, &c., April— July, No. 1815 and 1816^ Wright. Stem apparently prostrate 

 with erect hairy branches about a foot high. Leaves an inch long, rather acute at both ends, a 

 little hairy above and underneath. Stipules subulate, very small. Spikes terminating the 

 branches, 1-2 inches long, the summit usually staminate and much more slender than the fertile 



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