EUPHORBIACE.S:. 41 



bearing stipitate glands below ; styles i -partite; seeds . . . — Nearly allied to C, penicillatus, 

 Vent., but distinguished by haviog glabrous leaves, and globose, subsessile, basilar leaf- 

 glands. — Hab. Jamaica! 



50. C. humilis, Z. BrancUets pilose; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, usually 

 pointed, repaud-entire or denticulate, scabrous above, white-tomentose or glaucous-pubescent 

 beneath, bearing distant glands on the margin and two at the base : glands stipitate or sub- 

 sessile, globose, minute : stipules minute, glanduliform, caducous ; stamens oo ; style i-par- 

 tite; seeds oval.— A shrub, l'-2' high; leaves variable, l"-3" long, peUuoid-punctate ; 

 raceme terminal, often few-flowered; petals white; seeds obsoletely furrowed, impressed 

 around the caruncle. 



o. Petioles long, half as long or as long as the limb ; marginal glands numerous, stipitate, 

 j8. oriffanif alius. Lam. Leaves shortly petioled : marginal glands rare, often subsessile. 



— Sesc. Fl. 7. t. 471. — Hab. Bahamas 1, Swains, (ff) ; Jamaica!, all collectors; common in 



the southern maritime pastm'es ; [Haiti !]. 



Sect. 5. Barhamia. — Stamens 10-13 (-"15 "). ? Calyx often glanduUferous. Styles^ 

 {-S)-partite : branches simple. Seeds smooth. — Shrubs or herbs : down pilose ; leaves 

 usually serrate ; stipules glauduliferous I, filiform, persistent. 



51. C. ovalifolius, West. I Shrubby; branchlets softly pilose; leaves oval or oblong, 

 blunt, mucronulate, quite entire, or crenate towards the top, glabrescent above, pilose berteath 

 with soft, spreading, stellate hairs : basilar glands none : stipules exceeded by the petiole, 

 bearing a' few glands ; raceme terminal, short, simple ; ^' calyx large : segments ciliate 

 with stipitate glands ; seeds roundish-oblong. — Barhamia, Kl. C. diffiisus, jRich.—^A. low, 

 diffuse shrub ; leaves 12"'-8"', petiole 4'"-3"' long; seeds 1'" long, shining, light-brown, 

 convex on the back. — Hab. Jamaica ! : Al., March ; [S. Thomas ! ; Guadeloupe !, Venezuela!]. 



52. C. urticifolius, Lam. Suftutescent or shrubby; branchlets pilose or hispid; 

 leaves ovate, pointed, subcordate, crenate-serrate, with the creuatures glandular, scabrous 

 with scattered stellate hairs, glabrescent above, %-% times as long as the petiole :. basilar 

 glands subsessile: stipules with distant glands; raceme terminal, cylindrical, solitary, or 

 compound at the base ; $ calyx pilose, glanduliferous, erect ; seeds . . . — Stem herbaceous, 

 growing woody below ; leaves Si^-li" long. — Hab. Trinidad !, Lockh., Or., by roadsides ; 

 [Guiana, BrazU], 



53. C. popnlifolius, iSw. SufErutescent or shrubby ; branchlets pilose or glabrescent ; 

 leaves subcordate-roundish, pointleted, dentate-serrate, with the teeth nainutely glandular, 

 glabrescent, nearly as long as the pilose petiole : basilar glands small, stipitate : stipules cut 

 at the base into stipitate glands ; racemes terminal and axillary, long ; ? calyx pilose, glan- 

 duliferous, spreading: segments linear; seeds ovoid. — Stem herbaceous, growing woody 

 below, 2' high ; leaves 3"-2" diam. ; styles 4-partite ; seeds \\"' long, opaque, somewhat sca- 

 brous, convex on the back. — Hab. Jamaica (Siv.); S. Vincent!, Guild.; Grenada, Tri- 

 nidad!, Cr. 



Sect. 6. Geiselema. — Stamens W {8-W). Styles bifid: branches simple. Seeds smooth. 

 —Herbs, rarely shrubs : down pilose ; leaves serrate, bearing stipitate scutellate glands 

 at the top of the petiole ; stipules setaceous, persistent ; racemes short, alar or terminal. 



/ 54.^ C. glandulosus, Z. Annual, herbaceous, pilose; leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate- 

 ' oblong, blimt, serrate, glabrescent : serratures truncate ; segments of the ? calyx equal, ^ 

 spathulate-oblong, blunt, nearly as long as the ovate-oblong capsule ; seeds oval-roundish : 

 caruncle substipitate. — Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 41. — Leaves approximate at and exceeding the 

 short, racemes ; seeds li"' long, shining, brown, convex on both sides. — Hab. Jamaica !, 

 Macf.; [Carolina to Mexico!, Quito, Para!]. 



55. C. chamBedryfolius, Lam. Annual, herbaceous, scabrous-pubescent; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, pointed, crenate-serrate, glabrescent: serratures Reading; segments of 

 the $ calyx lanceolate, bluutish, somewhat unequal, nearly as long as the globose capsule ; 

 seeds oval-roundish : caruncle sessile. — SI. t. 82. /. 3. — Geisderia, Kl. — Seeds 1"' long, 

 opaque-punctate, brown, convex on both sides. — Hab. Jamaica {SI) ; Trinidad I, Cr. ; 

 [Haiti; Panama!, Guiana!]. 



