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EUPHORBIACEAE 
Amanoa muricata sp. 
Glabrous, the lee slender, erect, spreading, ae 
stipules 6 mm. long, linear, attenuate, thick; petioles 6-12 
long, very slender; blades 4-7 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, nee 
oblong, acute at t ase, the summit ionipay contracted into a 
narrow, obtuse errs entire, the venation slender, obscure, 
lightly prominent underneath; pedunc e 3 mm. long, very stout, 
thickened upward; fruits 2 or 3, sub-sessile, 8-10 mm. long, glo- 
pees clothed toward the summit with ‘few large, brace like 
ate murications. 
er ao bush 8 feet high; San Juan, 3200 ft., March 20, 
1902” (No. 213). 
Phyllanthus cassioides sp. nov. 
Glabrate; plant about 5 dm. high, the branches elongated, 
slender, weak, irregularly ascending, ae branchlets 5—7 cm. lon 
very slen er, spreading, very leafy, except the flowering ones, 
which are about 2 mm ea , very slender, one-flowered and densely 
clothed below with minute subulate bracts ; leaves nearly sessile, 
—1o mm. long, aacquiliteraily oblong, acute, oblique at 
base, thin, pale or glaucous underneath, where the six pairs of thin 
secondaries are sharply prominent; flower very slenderly pedicelled, 
road; sepals oval, thin; stamens 3, distinct, about half as 
long as the sepals, the anthers erect, broader than long, each 
theca sub-globose 
“Isapuri, 1500 ft., Sept. 30, 19017’ (No. 747). Species near 
P. lathyrotdes. 
Croton Williamsii (Sect. Eucroton) sp. nov. 
Shortly ae densely gray-tomentose throughout, the branches 
elongated and slender; stipules 3 mm. long, attenuate from the 
base; ane 12-30 mm. long, slender, sharply age ees ay 3 
e 
sp 
lon der, rather ee eae flowered; flowers very shortly 
eee buds globose, 2 mm. broad; flower 5 mm. broad; sepals 
oval, obtu 
equalling the sepals but narrower, oblong, the summit lacerate; 
stamens about equalling the perianth, the filaments stoutish, the 
anthers short, oval; capsule 4 mm. long. 
