Excerpt from The Genera Pedilanthus and Cubanthus, and Other American Euphorbiaceae, And, Two New Stonecrops From Guatemala Tropical American and Madagascarian shrubs with fleshy branches and milky juice, alternate leaves, glandular stipules if any, opposite floral leaves and cymose terminal or upper-axillary involucres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.