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93. K. Mancinella, L. Arboreous ; leaves ovate or elliptical, serrulate or crenate, 

 serrate, shitting, uni glandular above at the base, as long as or twice as long as the petiole ; 

 racemes terminal.— SI. 1. 195 ; Jacq. Atner. Pict. t. 238 ; Tuss. Fl.S.t.5; Desc. Fl. 3. 1. 153. 

 — A middle-sized, poisonous tree ; drupe subglobose, 1^" diam., yellowish-green. — Hab. Ja- 

 maica !, Pd. ; S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Grenada ; Trinidad, ou the sandy seacoast ; [Cuba to Ve- 

 nezuela, and Panama !]. 



32. HURA, L. 



Flowers monoecious. Calyx cupuliform, irregularly toothed. Column central, bearing 

 below its verticillate projections indefinite, sessile, extrorse anthers. Style simple, infundi- 

 buliform at the top : stigma many-lobed, with hanging, subulate branches. Capsule poly- 

 coccous. " Seeds compressed-round : testa as in Sapi-um." — A milky, glabrous tree ; leaves 

 biglandular above at the base ; spikes oval or oblong, long -peduncled, terminal : $ flowers 

 densely imbricated, $ at the base or in the superior axils. 



94. H. crepitans, L.—Tuss. Fl. 4. t. 5 ; Desc. Fl. 2. t. 124.— A high tree ; leaves 

 variable, about 2" diam., roundish, usually cordate, pointleted, serrate or subentire, often 

 shorter than the petiole; anthers usually 1-3-seriate. — Hab. Jamaica!, Pd., Mac/., Al. ; 

 S. Vincent!, Guild.; Trinidad; [Cuba to Brazil]. Sandbox. 



33. OMPHALEA, L. 



Flowers monoecious. Calyx 5-4-partite. Column surrounded by a disc, central, agarici- 

 form, bearing 3-2 sessile extrorse anthers on the margin of its pileus. Style simple, short : 

 stigma shortly 3-lobed. Pericarp drupaceous, 3-coccous. Seeds subglobose : testa of Sa- 

 pium. — Woody plants; leaves quite entire: stipules deciduous; panicle terminator axillary, 

 racemose ; bracts distant, large, spathulate-linear, from the axil of which arises a peduncled, 

 dichotomous, androgynous cyme, with a central $ flower. 



95. O. triandra, L. Arboreous; leaves oblong, oval, or cordate, glabrous, biglandular 

 above at the base; anthers 3. — Br. Jam. t. 22. f. 4: mala; Suss. Fl. 4. t. 9; Desc. Fl. 2. 

 t. 80. — O. nucifera, Sw. — A tree of various height; drupe yellow, globose, furrowed, 1£" 

 diam. — Hab. Jamaica !, 3VNab, Wils., common j [Guiana]. 



96. O. diandra, L. Shrubby, trailing, pubescent; leaves oblong, oval, cordate, pubes- 

 cent beneath, biglandular above at the base; anthers 2. — Aubl. I. 328. — O. cordata, Sw. 

 — I have seen only continental specimens, and doubt its being distinct from the preceding. 

 — Hab. Jamaica, Sw., on rocks; [Guiana!, equatorial Brazil!]. 



34. EXCCECARIA, L. 



Flowers naked, or usually with the calyx represented by a variable number of bracteoles. 

 Stamens 2-4 (1-16), distinct: anthers globose, extrorse. Styles 3, often united below: 

 branches simple. Capsule 3-coccous. Seeds carunculate, smooth, globose or ovoid. — "Woody 

 plants ; racemes amentiform, usually androgynous, with the ? flowers inferior. 



Baillon has united this genus partly with Sapium, from which it is distinguished chiefly by 

 the seeds, as also by the distinct stamens, if we adopt the hypothetical view that the organ, 

 regarded here as a pedicel, be a column in Sapium. According to the views of former 

 authors, there would be as many genera as there are West Indian species of Exccecaria, 

 but I adopt Bentham's view of the matter, and reduce to Exccecaria my Actinostemon 

 caribous. Gymnanthes hypoleuca, Benth., is identical with my other Guadeloupe species 

 {E.farinosa). 



Sect.l. Gymnanthes. — Flowers monoecious -. <? bracts Z-flowered ; ? flowers long-pedi- 

 cellate. Seeds globose : caruncle pileiform. 



97. E. lncida, Sw. Glabrous ; leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptical, remotely serrate 

 or subentire ; arnents eglaudular, sessile ; $ flowers 3-2-audrous, naked, unihracteolate : 

 filaments as long as the anther ; $ flower subsolitary, basilar or distinct, inferior, 3-bracteolate : 

 its pedicel nearly as long as the ament. — Juss. Euph. t. 55 : analyt. — Gymnantbes, Sw. — A 

 shrub, said to be poisonous; leaves shining above, green beneath ; seeds IV" diam., black : 

 caruncle distinct, pale. — Hab. Jamaica !, Macf., Pd., March, along the seashore ; Antigua!, 

 Nichols. ; [Cuba !, Guadeloupe !]. 



