EUPHORBIA SPLENDENS, 
SPLENDID EUPHORBIA. 
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NATURAL ORDER, EUPHORBIACEA, 
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to which YNTA, 
baccaghese. this Plant belongs on rehbaion 2 
No. 23. 
GENUS. Evpnorsia. Luyyevs. Invotucrum andr 4.5 fiom, 
NUS. 
extus appendiculis glandulosis, eax Linnei, Necrarra Mich} Punt. 
PHERICI pedicelli incerti numeri, singuli cum singulis staminibus articulati. 
GErMey pedicellatum, centrale. Sry113,2-fidi. Capsuta3-cocca. SPRENGEL. 
Species Plantarum, Vol. III, p. 758. 
SPECIES. Evpnorsia Sprenpens. Boser. Froticosa, aculeis validi 
hnumerosissimis, foliis oblongo- spathulatis mucronatis, bracteis sitcottealatie 
mucronatis basi he concavis, iny volucrum includente, filamentis farcatis. 
Hooxer. Botanical Magazine, folio 2902. 
CHARACTER OF THE dene Evpnorsia. Invotucre androgynous, 
4-5 cleft, externally furnished with glandular appendages, (called Pr- 
TALS by Linneus, NecTaries by other authors.) Those pedicels 
which are arranged around the central one, are variable in number, 
each bearing a single stamen, with which it is articulated. Ovary 
pedicellate, central. Sryzes 3, each 2-cleft. Capsune formed of 
three cocci. , 
DEscripTION OF THE Species, EvpHorsia SpLenpens. STEM 
shrubby, branched, both branches and stem beset with strong, straight 
thorns, pointing in various directions, of a dark colour when old, of a 
purple hue towards the top of the branches. Leaves alternate, atte- 
nuate at the base, spathulate-oblong, mucronate at the tip, somewhat 
fleshy, midrib raised, and extending from the base to the top of the 
leaf, the veins more parallel than is usual in the leaves of exogenous 
plants, bright green, except when old, then assuming a red or purplish 
hue, glabrous on both surfaces. PrpuNc.iEs axillary, jointed in the 
middle, having at the joint two small bracts, above which they are 
twice dichotomously divided, at each division furnished with two small 
bracts; higher still are two large bracts, rose-coloured above, pale 
pink below, roundish, spreading, united at the base, where they are 
