cup-shaped and greenish. In the hollow formed by their union is the 
involucre, consisting of a single piece, cup-shaped, greenish at the 
base, with five reddish yellow, fleshy, erect or slightly spreading, 
rounded lobes, alternately with which are five small, red, fleshy lobes 
or glands, curved downwards and inwards. STAMINIFEROUS FLOWERS 
numerous, several of them abortive and mixed with numerous hairs. 
Pepicex green, but filament with which it is articulated red, forked, 
each fork bearing a one-celled anther, of a dark purple colour. Pis- 
TILLIFEROUS FLowers formed each of a solitary pistil surrounded by 
the stamens. PrpiceL very short. Ovary3-lobed. Styx 3-parted 
or rather one style springing from each coccus, adhering to the others 
to nearly the middle, then distinct, each style bifid. Stremas capi- 
tate. Fruit consisting ‘of three cocci, each containing one cell, and 
one seed. SEED oblong, blunt at each end, glabrous 
PopuLar AND GeorapHicaL Notice. This very showy species was 
discovered by Professor Bojer, along the borders of fields in the pro- 
vince of Emirne,in Madagascar. Its native name is Soongo Soongo. 
INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. It was introduced into 
this country by the Horticultural Society about 1827; and to this 
establishment our thanks are due for permission to make the present 
delineation of the plant, which has been so beautifully executed by 
Mrs, Withers. It grows from three to four feet high, and requires to be 
kept in the stove, where it continues a conspicuous ornament for two 
or three months ; producing flowers, more or less, from Midsummer to 
Michaelmas. Cuttings strike root readily under a hand-glass. 
DertvaTIon OF THE NaMEs. 
Evrxorsia is an altered termination of the EvgopByv of Dioscorides, so 
called after Euphorbus, A to Juba, king of Mauritania, who made known 
the properties of some species of this genus, all of which have a milky juice 
the inhabitants of the Canary Islands drink ~ of the et Canariensis, 
being careful first to strip off the skin or | 
chiefly to reside. SrirenpEns, splendid. 
SynonymeEs. 
Evrsorsia Sprenpens. Hooker in Botanical Magazine, folio 2902. 
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