Fluggea
(named in honour of John Flugge, a German cryptogamic botanist). ORD. Euphorbiaceoe. A genus comprising several species of much-branched smooth shrubs, found in most tropical countries of the Eastern hemisphere. Flowers green, minute, and disposed in fascicles or cymes in the axils of the leaves. Berry about the size of a pea, or smaller. Leaves entire, obovate or ovate. In all probability, the species here described is the only one yet introduced. It succeeds in a rich mould and in a moist stove. Propagated by cuttings. F. leucopyrus (white-fruited). fl. apetalous. Berries white, edible. l. alternate, orbicular, ovate, entire, smooth; spines 2in. to 3in. long, very strong and numerous, whitish. East Indies, 1825.