Homalanthus.] ^ cxxxv. nupHoRBIAcEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 469 
styles linear, divergent, entire; ovules 1 in each cell. Capsule didymous, 
fleshy, indehiscent or tardily splitting into 2 9-valved cocci. Seeds evoid, 
with a fleshy aril, testa crustaceous, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, 
flat.—Species 7-8, Malayan, Pacific and Australian. 
H. porvutirouius, Gra. in New Edinb. Journ. Sc. 1827, and in Bot. 
Mag. t. 2780 (Omalanthus) ; leaves broadly rhombic- or triangular-ovate 
acuminate, bracts 3-6-fid. very short broadly toothed, male sepals subequal 
base dilated 2-glandular, stamens 6-10. Carumbium populneum, Muell. 
Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 1144. C. populifolium, Reinw. in Blume Cat. 
Hort. Bogor. 105, ex Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. ii. 414; Benth. Fl. Austral. vi. 
150. Omalanthus Leschenaultianus, A. Juss. Tent. Euph. 50, t. 16, £. 53.— 
Wall. Cat. 7972 G. 
PrzNANG, Wallich. CEYLON, Dahl (Muell. Arg. l. ¢.).—DisTR1B. Malay and 
Pacific Islands, Australia. 
A small tree. Leaves 2-4 in., membranous, penninerved, more or less glaucous and 
often reddish beneath; petiole as long, very slender; stipules 3-1 in., lanceolate. 
Racemes 1-4 in. Flowers ig in. diam. Calyz-lobes ‘unequal. Stamens 6, or 
fewer, Capsule 1-3 in. diam., glaucous, didymous, tardily dehiscing. Seeds half 
enveloped in the aril.—The only Indian specimen that I have seen is one sheet (9) ot 
Wallich’s Herbarium from Penang, under S/illingia sebifera. It may be introduced 
into that island; and yet so common a Malayan plant may be expected to occur iu 
British India. The Ceylon habitat is probably an erroneous one. 
72. SAPIUM, P. Br. 
Trees and shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, serrate or toothed, penni- 
nerved; petiole often 2-glandular at the top. Flowers in terminal simple 
or panicled spikes or racemes, moncecious (always ?), apetalous; males 
several in each bract ; females in the lower part of the spike, or in separate 
spikes, solitary in the bracts. Disk 0. Mave Ft. Calyx membranous, 
shortly 2-3-lobed or toothed, or split to the base into 2-3 valvate 
sepals. Stamens 2-3, filaments free ; anther-cells ovoid, distinct, contiguous, 
parallel. Pistillode 0. FEM. rr. Calyx 3-fid or -partite. Ovary 2-3- 
celled ; styles free or connate at the base, spreading and recurved, undi- 
vided, cells 1-ovuled. Capsule crustaceous, fleshy or pulpy, rarely woody, 
at length loculicidally (not elastically) 3-valved. Seeds globose, estrophio- 
late, usually long-persistent on the columella, testa crustaceous, albumen 
fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat.—Species 25, all tropical. 
Sect. I. Trrapica. Spikes androgynous. Fruit baccate or cocci deciduous 
from a broadly 3-winged persistent columella. 
l. S. discolor, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 121; branchlets and 
leaves beneath glaucous, leaves long-petioled elliptic acute or acuminate 
quite entire glaucous beneath, racemes simple terminal solitary, fruit glo- 
se capsular. Stillingia discolor, Champ. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. vi. 
(1854) 1; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 303. Excoscaria discolor. Muell. in DC. 
Prodr. xv. ii. 1210. 
MALACCA, Griffith. SINGAPORE, Maingay. —DISTRIB. China. 
" glabrous glaucous shrub or small tree. Leaves 2-24 in., base acute; nerves 
0-12 pair, very faint, nearly transverse; petiole 4-1 in., very slender, 1-2-glandular 
onthe tip. Spikes 1-2} in., dense-fld. as in S. sebiferum. Styles very short, pointed 
on the top of the ovary. Capsule } in., globose. 
