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HOMALIUM racemosum. 
Bunch-flowered Homalium. Acomas. 
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POLYANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RosACEJE. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. VIII. Genera Rosaceis 
affinia. 
HomaLina. Brown's botany of Congo. 19. 
HOMALIUM. Cal. basi turbinatus semisuperus, limbo patens 6-7-par- 
titus, laciniis persistentibus. Pet. persistentia, 6-7, laciniis calycinis ma- 
jora. Glandule (nectaria Jacq.) 6-7, unguibus laciniarum calycis insidentes. 
Stam. plurima (18-24) perigyna, 3 aut 4 congenita ex basi cujusque petali : 
anth. subrotunde. Germ. semiinferum apice desinens in stylos 3-4; stig. 3-4, 
simplicia. Caps. semiinfera, limbo calycis petalisque patentissimis coriaceis 
cincta, 1-loc., apice 3-4-valvis aut non dehiscens, intüs polysperma; sem. 
pauca parietibus affixa. Arbores aut frutices; fol. alterna stipulacea; flores 
spicato-paniculati axillares, divisuris panicule bracteolatis, pedicellis medio 
articulatis. An Rhamnis affinius; an embryo absque albumine? Juss. 
l. c. 343. 
H. racemosum, folis serratis, racemis axillaribus terminalibusque, floribus 
pedunculatis. Swartz pons 86. 
Homalium racemosum. Jacq. amer. 170. t. 183; fig. 72. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 
1225. Richard in actes de la soc. d'hist. nat. de Paris 142. Swartz ff. 
ind. occid. 2. 989. r 
Acomas à grappes (Homalium racemosum). Lamarck encyc. 1.32. — 
Arbor 10-15 pedalis, s. arbuscula, s. frutex: rami patuli, subdivist, in- 
ermes, ramulis demum tenuissimis rigidiusculis. Fol. petiolata, 2 pollic., ob- 
longa, utrinque acuminata, obtuse serrata, nervosa, venosa, tenuiora, utrinque 
glabra: pet. breves glabri. Racemi axillares, rariùs terminales, solitarii, 
erecti, simplices, 3-5-pollic., sushi tele ; flores breviter pedicellati, alterni, 
YPERICI perforati; pedic. 1-flori. Cal. 
approximati, albidi, magnitudine ; : f l 
semisuperus, basi turbinatus, 6-7-partitus; lac. lineari-lanceolatis, patenti- 
bus, sesquilinearibus, villosiusculis. Pet. 6-7, fauci calycis inserta, laciniis 
calycinis alternantia et majora, ovato-oblonga, patentia, wtrinque subto- 
mentosa s. sericea, ez albido lutescentia: glandule 6-7, ad basin petalorum 
posite, subglobose, villosiuscule, albe. Fil. 18-21, inter singulam glandu- 
lam tria omnia distincta, basi petalorum calycisque inserta, filiformia : anth. 
subrotunde, sanguinee. Germ. medio calyce cinctum, supra faucem in 
formam conicam elevatum, hirsutum: styli 3, filiformes, longitudine stami- 
num, glabri; stig. simplicia. Caps. semiinfera, dura, ovato-acuminata, 1-loc., 
apice 3-valv., inferne 3 lineis elevatis villosis notata, polysperma Li m 
aliquot, fusca, parietibus affixa. Numerus partium variat. Swartz fl. ind. 
occ. l. c. 
The species was observed by Dr. Swartz, growing in 
meadows and at the sides of rivers, in the northern part of 
Jamaica, where it becomes a tree from 10 to 15 feet high. 
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