575 



crimson 



Vernac. «a?«e5.— Pasciia or Flores de Pasciia (Philippines, 

 Blanco)— in allusion to the i)lants being at their best at 

 Christmas.— Easter Flower, Cluistmas Flower, Mexican Flame 

 Leaf (Bailej-), Scarlet Dazzle. 



A native of Mexico and Central America— cultivated Lagos 

 (List, Millen & Rowland), in California, &c. Cultivated in 

 British hot-houses since 1834 (Card. Chron. Sept. 12th, 1914, 

 p. 190) for ornamental purposes, the brilliant 

 making a good show at Christmas. Flower heads 2 ft. across, 

 are recorded as " a most imposing and gorgeous sight at 

 Christmastide " at ^Vroxall Abbey, near Warwick (I.e. Jan. 14th, 

 1882, p. 57) equal in size to heads 2 ft. across, grown at Santa 

 Barbara California at Christmas on a plant 8 years old and strongly 

 cut back every year in spring (I.e. Feb. 20th, 1897, p. 125). The 

 " Scarlet Dazzle " is mentioned as growing on rocks by the 

 roadside on the way from Kingston to Castleton in Jamaica 

 (Kew Bull. 1892, p. 74). 



Propagated by cuttings grown in sandy loam and the 

 branches should be kept pruned each year just before groAAth 

 commences to within two or three eyes of old or hard wood. 



Euphorbia scordifolia, Jacq.; Fl. Trop. Afr. VT. Sect. 1. 



p. 501. 



' /ZZ.— Jacq. Ic. PI. Par. iii. t. 476; Boisser, Ic. Euphorb. 

 t. 11. 



I 



Bure, near Lake Chad; Lokoja (ElHott, Nos. 195, 1907, and 

 109, 1904, Herb. Kew) ; and also found in Senegal, Sierra Leone 

 Nile Land, &c. 



Apphed to women's breasts to increase flow of milk, Lokoia 

 (Elliott, I.e.). 



An annual weed. 



Euphorbia sepium, N.E. Br. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, 



p. 551. 



Ver7iac. names.— Yavo or Waiyaro (Katagum, Dalziel); 

 Kagua or Kaguwa (Sokoto, Dalziel). 



Katagum, Sokoto (Dalziel, Nos. 320, 1907-08 & 528, 1910, 

 Herb. Kew), and also found in Senegambia and Togoland. 



Similar in habit to E. lateriflora (q.v.) Used by the Natives 

 as a hedge shrub (I.e.), and for the same purpose in Senegambia 

 (Fl. Trop. Afr. I.e.) and Senegal (Chevaher, Bull. Soc. Nat. d'Accl. 

 France, 1912, p. 313^^. balsamifera. Ait.). Used medicinally, 

 chiefly for horses (Dalziel, Hausa Bot.-Voc. p. 54). 



Euphorbia Tirucalli, Linn. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, p. 556. 

 [E. media, N.E. Br. I.e.] 



/ZZ.-^Pheede, Hort. Mai. ii. t. 44 (" Tiru Calli ") ; Rumpf 

 Amb. vii. t. 29 {Ossifragra lacfea); Blanco, Fl. Filip. t. 210; 

 Berger, Sukk. Euphorbium, p. 20, f. 2 ; Sim, For. Fl. & For. 

 Res. Port. E. Afr. t. 84, f. 2 ; Engl. & Drude, Veg. Erde x. 

 p. 251, f. 218; Tropenpfl. xiv. 1910, p. 159; Talbot, For, Fl. 

 Bombay, ii. p. 435, f. 487. 



