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82 EUPHORBIACEAE SMITHSONUN CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY
the forests. Hodge and Taylor (1957572) described the wood
as purplish black, filled with white flecks, exceedingly hard and
heavy.
Bernardia Miller
Bernardia corensis
Bernardia coreusis (Jacquin) I. Mueller, 1865:173.
Acalypha coreusis Jaquin, 1760:32.
Polyboea coreusis (Jacquin) Klotzsch ex Endlicher, 1850, Suppl., 4(2):88.
Monoecious shrub to 3 m; stems glabrous or with a few
scattered hairs; leaf-blade elliptic or rhombic, denticulate to
crenate-serrate, the apex acute to rounded, to 15 cm long, often
smaller, ciliate, glabrous or with scattered hairs mostly on
veins; axis of inflorescence pubescent; flowers in fascicles
along the spikes; pedicels of male flowers disarticulating below
the middle; capsule 5-7 mm wide.
West Indies, northern S. America; common in Dominica in
dry scrub woodlands on west coast to 600 m: Belleville (Eggers
581), Clarke Hall (Ernst 1268, Stern & Wusshausen 2397,
Webster 13161, Wilbur 7374), Dublanc (Hodge 2525, Whitefoord
4296), East Cabrit (Nicolson 1903, Gabriel (Wilbur
8229), Grand Savanne (Wilbur 8346B), Mero (Chumbers
2780), Morne Colla Anglais (Webster 13434), Pointe Guignard
(Wilbur 8123), Pointe Ronde (Hodge 2662). Flowering
April-May.
Chamaesyce S.F. Gray
Hodge 3413 from Salybia is not one of the following species
and may be Chumaesyce bulbisii (Boissier) Millspaugh. The
specimen at hand (US) is very fragmentary and is so young that
critical seed characters are unclear. This species has solitary
flowers, glabrous ovaries, subentire to denticulate leaves, and
rugulose seeds.
1. Stems woody, conspicuously jointed . , , . C. articulata
1. Stems herbaceous, not conspicuously jointed.
2. Cyathia solitary; plants mostly prostrate.
3. Ovary and plant ciliate in lines; stipules shorter, &
connate at distal nodes ......... C. prostrata
3. Ovary and plant appressed hirtellous; stipules discrete,
slender, fimbriate-dentate, 1-1.3 mm long . .
..................... C. thym(fo1ia
2. Cyathia glomerulate or cymose; plants mostly erect.
4.
4. Stems glabrous or nearly so; ovary glabrous.
Stems tomentose; ovary strigose ...... C. hirta
5. Cymes dense, appearing leafless (bracts greatly
reduced); capsule & globose, c1.4 mm long . ...
.................. C. hypericifolia
5. Cymes relatively lax, leafy (bracts less reduced);
capsule more elongated, >1.6 mm long . .....
................... C. hyssopifolia
Chamaesyce arriculata
Chamesyce articulata (Aublet) Brim, 1916574.-Burch 19W:91.
Euphorbia articulota Aublet, 1775:480.
Shrub to 6 m; stems glabrous: leaves slightly oblique at base,
glabrous or slightly canescent, blades of various shapes on
Same branchlets, linear-lanceolate to ovate, to 6 cm long, often
smaller.
Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and Lesser Antilles; in Dominica
along dry west coast to 400 m: Gabriel (Wilbur 8239), Mero
(Ernst 1984), Roseau Botanic Garden (Hodge 3903), South
Chiltern (Stern 2533).
Chamaesyce hirta
Chamaesyce hirta (Linnaeus) MiUspaugh. 1909:303.-Burch, 19-395; in
Webster & Burch. 1968:340.
Euphorbia hirta Linnaeus, 1753:454.
Herb, decumbent to 3 dm; stems tomentose with multicellular
hairs; leaf-blade serrate, lanceolate-rhombiform with acute
apex, to 5.5. cm long, pubescent beneath, glabrate above;
capsules strigose.
Pantropical weed; common in Dominica in disturbed areas to
500 m: Baiac (Whitefoord 3839), Carib Reserve (Hodge 3301),
Cabrit Swamp (Hodge 562), Hatton Garden (Hodge 3040),
Melville Hall (Nicolson 2009), Pointe Guignard (Wilbur 8126),
Portsmouth street weed (DHN!), Ridgefield (Hodge 2168),
Roseau (Hodge 560, 561, Kimber Il08), Soufriere Village
(Ernst 1340), South Chiltem (Hodge 1512).
Adjanohoun et al. (198599, pl. 65) reported (as Euphorbia
him) medicinal usage to treat constipation.
Chamaesyce hypen'cifolia
Chamesycc hypericifolia (Lmnaeus) Millspaugh, 1909:302.-Burch,
1966b:91; in Webster & Burch, 1968:345.
Euphorbia hypericifolia Linnaeus, 1753:454.
Ma1 nomme, ma1 dormi, akuliarani (eye medicine), alauali
aku lia (Carib).
Herb, erect or ascending to 5 dm; stems glabrous 9r sparsely
pubescent; leaf-blade mostly glabrous, serrate, often falcate,
ovateelliptic to oblong or obovate, to 3.5 cm long; seeds
wrinkled, reddish or light brown.
Neotropics and adventive in Old World; in Dominica a weed
of disturbed places: Melville Hall (Hodge 564), Point Ronde
(Hodge 2642), Roseau (Hodge 563), Salybia (Hodge 3000 at
GH?).
Hodge and Taylor (1957572) reported fie use of an infusion
of this for uterine pains and the w e or expressed juice to treat
eyes.
Chamaesyce hyssopifolia
Chamaesyce hyssopifoia (Linnaeus) Small, 1905:429.-Bumh, 1-91; in