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EUPHORBIA corintro.ia, 
Shumac-leaved Spurge. 
“MONECIA MONANDRIA (Dopecanpria Trieynta, Linn.)—Nat. Orv. 
| - EUPHORBIACE, Juss. 
Gen. Cuar.—Flores masculi plurimi : Femineus unicus; plerumque in eo- 
dem involucro monophyllo, calyciformi, octo- vel decem-dentato. lores 
masculi pedicellati, nudi. Flos foemineus pedicellatus, nudus, perianthio 
instructus. Styli tres, bifidi. Capsula tricocca, coccis monospermis. 
Div. xxx. Dichotome ii see. ee aut get 
Buphotbia! cotintfolia; fruticosa i inermis, foliis ternis longe petiolatis sub- 
rotundo-ovatis obtusis glabris, floribus termmalibus axillaribusque 
ternis. 
E. cotinifolia, Linn. Amen. Acad. v. iii. p. 112.—Wiuup. Sp. Pl. v. ii. p. 892. 
—Ait. Hort. Ken. ed. 2. v. ill. p. 160.—Hume. et Kuntu, Nov. = Veli. 
p- 46. 
Tithymalus arboreus curassavicus, cotinifolio. SEBA, Thes. v. i. p: 75. t. 46. 
£4, tee 
_ Stem shrubby; in our stoves 4 or 5 feet high, but, in its native country, at- 
taining, according to Humsotpt, a height of 15 or 20 feet; abound- 
ing in a highly acrid, milky juice. Branches ternate, slender, flexible, 
_ purplish. Leaves ternate, placed upon slender footstalks, which exceed 
the leaves in length, rotundato-ovate, rounded, and very obtuse both at 
the base and at the extremity, resembling those of Rhus Cotinus, entire, 
soft and thin, veined, the young ones of 2 delicate green colour, the older 
ones partaking of a purple tint, but greener beneath. : 
Flowers rather small, growing in threes, either terminal, or from the axils of — 
the leaves (one from each axil), pedicellated. The pedicel has, general-— 
ly, 2 pairs of connate, acuminate bracteas, and, within these, abortive 
flowers (?) mixed with still smaller bracteas. Involucre cup-shaped, 
green, pubescent, bearing at its margins 5 spreading, white, petaloid, 
broadly cuneate processes, jagged at the margins, and having, at their — 
bases, each a large, green, broadly ovate, notched gland. Alternating 
with the base of these glands, is an upright, toothed, small scale. The 
involucre is pubescent within, and includes several male flowers, each a 
single pedicellated stamen, with a white filament, and a reddish, round- 
ed, didymous Anther; and one central pedicellated female flower or Ger- 
men, globular, obscurely 3-lobed ; its Style very short ; Stigmas 3, bi- 
partite. 
VOU, 3, 
