176 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



employed for the same purpose as E. 'pnlcherrima^ the species of 

 Dalechampia with petaloid involucre,^ and of Euphorbia "with white 

 streaked leayes. The magnificent leaves of certain species of 

 Macaranga and Carumbium^ those sometimes so delicate of several 

 species of Phyllanthus, which are simple, and whose branches always 

 imitate compound leaves, those again of our beautiful varieties of 

 Ricinus, make of all these species very ornamental plants. By their 

 leaf-shaped cladodes, the species of Phyllanthus of the section Xyllo- 

 phylla are of the number of plants which, in our greenhouses, excite 

 most curiosity. 



1 'W. Herb. n. 9259.— £. Coccinea W. — E. Bot. -Jfa^. t. 3673), tlie part coloured red is the 



diversifolin W, — E. erythrophylla Bertol. — perianth. 



FUuradenia cocchiea'&KYTN. — Poinsettia pulcher- 2 Principally D. Bwdiana (M. Aeq. Frodr. 



rima Ghah. in Edinb. now Phil. Joiirn. [March, 1223, u. 2), which ia probably only a variety, 



1836) ; in BiA. Mag. t. 3493. The bracts are with bracts frequently coloured, of D. {Cremo- 



yeUow, more often red, and are used for dyeing. phyllmn) spathiilata U . Bn. (Et. Gen. Euplwrbiac. 



In E. fulgms Karw. more often cultivated 58, t. 3, fig. 16-30). 

 under the name of E. jacquinicsfoUa (Hook, in 



