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EUPHORBIA FULGENS. 
(fulgent euphorbia.) 
class, order. 
DODECANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. 
natural order. 
EUPHORBIACEjE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx none. Corolla none. Involucres of many spreading leaves. Flowers 
naked, aggregate (collected together). Female floret enclosed by many (one-stamened) male florets. 
Specific Character — Plant stove shrub, growing from three to four feet high. Stem smooth, disposed 
to branch. Leaves smooth, lanceolate, entire, acuminate, those at the bottom of the branches of a 
dark green, while those at the upper part become tinted with a flame or light clouded red colour, 
as shown in the drawing. Flowers produced along the extremity of the youngest branches in 
axillary bunches, from three to four in each bunch, of a rich brilliant scarlet. 
This beautiful and rare species of Euphorbia has not, to our knowledge, been 
before published in any periodical in this country ; nor are we aware of it having 
flowered in any collection except that of Messrs. Lewcombe, Pince, & Co., of 
Exeter, from whence we were kindly furnished with the accompanying delineation 
from the pencil of Miss Morrish of that city. We have not had an opportunity of 
examining the plant in detail, but it appears to us sufficiently distinguishable from 
all the species hitherto described by the striking difference in the colour of the 
leaves ; those of the lower part of the branches being of a dark green, while those 
which terminate the shoots are shaded with pink, or a bluish colour, or mottled 
with a faint blue upon a purplish ground. The plant is a native of Mexico, and 
has been cultivated by the above nurserymen in their extensive and rich collection 
of stove exotics for two years ; but on account of the smallness of the plant it did 
not produce its flowers until the commencement of November last, at which time, 
by the brilliant colours of the flowers and their profuse number, the appearance was 
truly splendid. To convey a better idea of its appearance when in full blossom 
we have only to add that in general effect it greatly surpasses the well known 
