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penninerved, of a dark green, paler underneath, the younger ones 
having often a deep red tint. Pgpuncxes placed in the axils of the 
upper leaves, at first much shorter than them, but at length nearly 
equal to them, bearing from three to seven, so called, flowers, (pro- 
perly involucres.) Bracts very minute, linear, and scarlet. Invo- 
LUCRES with a bell-shaped greenish tube, spreading into five roundish, 
or slightly obcordate, bright scarlet external appendages, having the 
appearance of petals, with a transverse gland at the base of each, and 
five internal lobes alternating with the external ones, but not project- 
ing beyond the tube, serrated or fimbriate, and buff coloured. Each 
ALE F or at least the outer ones, subtended by a linear 
ciliated scale, often slightly coloured at the base. FEMALE central 
flower in our specimens sterile, reduced to a pedicel about a line 
long, and a short globular empty ovarium, with six abortive stigmas. 
Poputar AND GreoGRapnHicat Notice. Among the several spe- 
cies of this most extensive genus, lately introduced into our stoves, this 
is' one of the most elegant, from the brilliant colour of its involucres, 
and their long duration. Its country is unknown, but it is probably 
a native of South America, and evidently very nearly allied to Eu- 
phorbia laurifolia, a Peruvian plant, described by Lamarck and Per- 
soon, from Jussieu’s herbarium. Judging, indeed, from the descrip- 
tions, we should not have hesitated considering the two as identical, 
were it not for the constant abortion of the female flower in the indi- 
viduals in cultivation. G. B 
INTRoDUCTION; WHERE Grown; CULTURE.- The origin of this 
plant is no further known than that it was sent from the Berlin 
Botanic Garden a few years since, and has spread itself into the stoves 
of a number of our principal Horticulturists. Our drawing was made 
from a specimen in Mrs. Lawrence’s collection, which had several times 
excited the admiration of the visitors to the Horticultural Society’s 
exhibitions in Regent-street; being taken, however, at a rather, ad- 
vanced stage, it represents the flowers more lax, and with fewer leaves 
than is usually the case when the plant is less advanced in flowering. 
It requires to be kept in the stove, and should be potted in a mixture 
of peat, loam, and sand. Cuttings will strike root in sand, under a 
bell-glass, with bottom heat, but water should not be given them for 
several days after they are put in, that their juices might be somewhat 
exhausted, which would otherwise endanger their decay. 
DERIVATION OF THE NAMEs. 
Evpnorsia, taken by modern botanists from the tvdopBroy of Dioscorides, so 
call » as it is said, because Euphorbus, physician to Juba, king of Maurita- 
nia, first made use of that substance derived from a species of Euphorbia. 
md others it is derived fro 
m tv and goon, good pasture, though that be not 
th any species. Jac » fi like th f 
Jacaninia 
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: Synonyme. 
Evpworsia Jacqutnteriora. Hooker: Botanical Magazine, t. 3673. 
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