43 EUPHORBIACEiE. 



56. C. hirtus, L'Mer. Annual, herbaceous, hispid; leaves ovate-roundish or ovate, 

 blunt, doubly crenate, canescent beneath ; segments of the ? calyx unequal, lanceolate, 4-3 

 as long as the globose capsule, 1-2 smaller ; seeds oval-roundish : caruncle sessile. — L'Her. 

 Stirp. 1. 1. 9. Bracbystachys, Kl. — Styles often more deeply bifid than in the preceding; 

 seeds 1 J'" long, shining, obaoletely striated. — Hab. Jamaica !, Al. ; Trinidad I, Schach, Or., 

 in fields ; [New Granada ! and Venezuela ! to Brazil I] . 



Sect. 7. AsTE^A. — Stamens 12-15. Styles 3-8-fid : branches simple. Seeds verrucose I, 

 oblong. — Herbs or shrubs ; leaves usually palmatilobed : stipules persistent ; racemes long : 

 (? flowers usoaUy fascicled. 



'^ 57. C.lobatus, Z. Annual, herbaceous or sufErutescent, pilose ; longer hairs simple; 



leaves S-5-partite : segments elliptical or elliptical-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate ; stamens 



12-13 : inner series 3-3-androus ; capsule as long as the harry calyx. — Martyn, Hist. t. 46. 



— Astrsea, S^l. — Stem l'-2' high ; seeds 2"' long, with large warts on the sides, keeled on the 

 ' ' back and along the raphe, apiculate behind the caruncle, light-brown, opaque. — Hab. Carib 



bean Islands, and Truiidad !, Lockh., Schach, Pd. : a weed ; [Cuba ! and Mexico, to Brazil 



aud Ecuador I]. 



Sect. 8. Cyolostigma. — Stamens 15-oo . Styles bipartite: branches simple. — Trees or 

 shrubs: down tomentose with stellate hairs ; flowers of both sexes mixed I : the ? cen- 

 tral in the special cymules, which are arranged in a terminal raceme. 



58. C. gossypifolius, V. Arboreous; branchlets tomentose; leaves cordate-trifid, 

 stellate-pubescent above, hoary-tomentose, and at the base 2-glandular beneath : lobes ovate, 

 pointed, quite entire. — Vahl, Symb. 2. t. 49. — A low tree, IS'^Mgh. — Hab. Trinidad !, Lane. 



Sect. 9. Lasiogyne. — Stamens 15-20. Styles deeply S-fid: branches simple. Seeds 

 evate-oilong , glabrous, punctate. — Tomentose shrubs ; down stellate ; leaves denticulate, 

 or repand-entire : stipules deciduous ; racemes terminal. 



59. C. astroites, Ait. Leaves ovate, pointed, cordate at the base, scabrous-tomentose 

 above, hoaiy -tomentose beneath : basilar glands none ; segments of ^ calyx obtusely keeled 

 on the back. — C. phlomoides, Pers. Lasiogyne, Griseb. Carib. — A low shrub, l'-5' high. — 

 Hab. Antigua !, Wullschl.s [S. Thomas!, Desirade!, Guadeloupe!]. 



14. ACIDOCROTON, Gr. 

 (Acidoton, P. Br., noh Sw.) 



Flowers monoecious, $ and $ on distinct branches. S ■ Calyx 5-partite, valvate ; petals 

 5 ; stamens co, distinct, included : anthers adnate, introrse, mucronate. ^ : Calyx 5-partite : 

 segments alternating with mucroniform points ; petals ; ovary surrounded by a ciliate disc, 

 3 (-4) -celled: styles 3, obovate-foKaceous, bipartite, revolute-spreading. Capsule 3-coccous. 

 Seeds carunculate, ovate-oblong : raphe distinct. — Peduncles terminal, subsolitary. 

 ,60. A. adelioides, Cfr. — Adelia acidoton, L.' (nan Kth.). — Avery spiny shrub, 4'-6' 

 high, difiiise : spines stipular, spreading, 4"'-8"' long, thin, exceeding the contracted-rosular, 

 leaf-bearing, hairy, but at length excrescent, and glabrate branchlets ; leaves cosetaneous, 

 obovate or otovate-roundish, glabrous, quite entire, 4'"-2"' long, shortly petioled : stipules 

 setaceous, almost 1'" long, and excrescent; peduncles of both sexes terminal, 1-flowered, 

 solitary, or a few together, 3 1'" long, $ 8'"-4"' long, cemuous, pubescent. 3 -. Calyx 

 •J'"- long : segments oval-roundish, ciliate ; petals 1'" long, oval-roundish, dliolate ; disc scu- 

 teHiform, fi-ee on the villous margin, and lO-lobed ; stamens about 25-30, covering the disc : 

 anthers ovoid, with the connective dilated on the exterior side, and shortly mucronate. ? ; 

 Calyx 2"'-3"' long, glabrescent : segments obovate, contracted at the base, with the sinus 

 open, and bearing a stipuhform, setaceous (V" long) point ; disc entire, circular, villous ; 

 ovary smooth, equalling the calyx : cells 1-ovulate : styles 1'" broad at the rounded top, with 

 the branches contiguous, depressed, somewhat convex on the upper side ; capsule 4'" diam,, 

 smooth, glabrous : cocci bivalved, with the endbcarp loosened ; seeds 3'" long, 2'" broad, 

 convex on the back, obsoletely tetragonal, brown, opaque, at length shining, subtruncate 

 around the whitish caruncle: sides obsoletely rugulose transversely. — Hab. Jamaica! Sw.; 

 at New Greenwich (P. Br.) ; [Cuba !, on the roclcy banks of the Ymnm-y, Rugel^. 



