2974.
EUPHORBIA stricta.
Upright Warted Spurge.
MONCECIA Monandria.
Gen. Char. Involucrum of one piece, including
several barren flowers and 1 fertile. Barren
flower a single stamen, without calyx or corolla.
Fertile flower a single pistil, without calyx (or
rarely a minute one) or corolla. Germen 3-lobed.
Style 2-3-cleft. Capsule 3-seeded.
Spec. Char. Umbel of 3 ,4 , or 5 3-5-fid rays. General
and first partial bracts and leaves oblong-acute,
clasping; other bracts cordate. Lobes of involucre
transversely oval. Stamens rarely more
than 2 in each involucre. Capsule spherical,
covered with prominent cylindrical tubercles.
Seeds smooth, oval, brown, shining. Seed-stalk
cordate.
Syn. Euphorbia stricta. Linn. Syst. ed. 10. 1049 ?
Koch, Syn. FI. Germ. ed. 2. / 23. Gren. et Godr.
FI. de France, v. 3. 78. Hort, in Bot. Gaz. v. 3.
15. Godr. FI. de Lorr. ed, 2. v. 2. 196. Bab. Man.
Br. Bot. ed. 5. 291. Boiss. in DC. Prod. v. 15,
133.
E. platyphylla, (3. Hook, fy Am. Br FI. ed. 8. 384.
S t e m 1-3 feet high, smooth, reddish, leafy throughout,
with many short flowering branches in its upper half. Leaves
oblong-lanceolate, declining from a cordate base; lowest