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EUPHORBIA JACQUINLAFLO'RA. 
JACQUINIA-FLOWERED EUPHORBIA. 
EXOGENZ. DICOTYLEDONEE. 
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NATURAL ORDER, EUPHORBIACES. 
Artificial divisions DODECANDBI4, 
to which TRIGYNIA, 
this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS, 
No. 100. 
MONOCHLAMYDA, 
OF 
DECANDOLLE. 
GENUS. Evpnorsia. Linnzvs. Ftores monoici in eodem inv lucro; fe- 
mineus uni ralis; masculi plures ambientes. _ Inyorvcrv UM commune 
i fimbriatisve aut mul- 
: 2 se glan- 
dulosze a < taloi Mascvuui: Pepicexi plures, s singuli c m filamento 
apice sila honaas ieiati, plerumque infra distincti tie interjectis. 
FoaMInNE!I: epi = longius pedunculatum basi nudum aut rarius calicula- 
Sryvx tres bifidi, rarius connati in unum apicetrifidum. Sriemara sex, 
rarius tres, biloba. Ovarivm triloculare, loculis uniovulatis. . Fructus capsul. 
aris, pedunculo elongato insidens et eodem deflexo nutans, tricoccus, ecor dk 
astice bivalvibus deciduis. ; sha 
um varie. INFLORESCENTIA axillaris vel terminalis, 
tatty vel bi-trichotome =: ADRIEN DE Jusstev de sats cea peak 
Generibus, 57. 
SP E Evrnorsia gsacquinrariora. Hooxer. ee FOLIIS 
culis axillaribus subtrichotomis paucifioris, bracteis minutis, involucri laciniis 
interioribus poLunde ns serratis brevibus, be Lt are pxiecioriens petaloideis 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, cine FLOWERS monecious 
in the same involucre, one female central one, several males around. 
it. InvoLucre bell-shaped or top-shaped, four to five-cleft, the lobes 
sb ac fringed, or divided into several, and outside the lobes are an 
or lesser number of outer ones alternating with them, and of a 
canis fleshy or petaloid consistence. Mae FLowers consisting 
of single filaments, bearing one anther, and articulated upon a very 
short pedicel, at the base of which is frequently a bract. Frmate 
Fiower: a pistil, borne on a peduncle, either naked or with a little 
calycule at the base. Srvzes three, bifid, or rarely joined in one. 
Stiemas, six, or rarely three, bilobed. Ovary trilocular, the cells 
one-ovulated. Fruit a capsule, placed on a long peduncle bent 
downwards, of three cocci, each opening elastically in two valves. 
DEscripTION OF THE SpeciEs, EUPHORBIA JACQUINIZFLORA. 
Survs, four to five feet high, with slender branches, leafy in the u 
, smooth in all its parts. Leaves on rather long foot-stalks, all 
pendant, oblong lanceolate, narrowed at both extremities, strongly 
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