Osyris. DIOECIA TRIANDRIA. 755 
male. Corol none. Germ superior, one-celled, one-seeded ; 
attachment lateral ; stigma sub-rotund. Capsule one-celled, 
two-valved, onenceided: Embryo obliquely inverse, and fur- 
nished with a perisperm. 
O. peltata, R. 
Arboreous, Leaves peltate, ovate-cordate, entire, 
A native of the Circar mountains; and of various other 
mountainous countries, The male tree of Ricinus Mappa, 
Linn. is so much like this, as scarcely to be distinguished ; 
the female of that I have not yet seen. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, peltate, cordate, pointed, entire, 
three-nerved, pretty smooth above, hairy underneath, from 
six to nine inches long, and about four or five inches broad. 
Petioles round, smooth, nearly as long as the leaves. Sti- 
pules obliquely oblong, caducous. Mae. Panicles or com- 
pound racemes thin, axillary, erett, interrupted. Bractes 
broad-cordate, notched, downy, many-flowered. Flowers 
exceedingly minute. Calyx three-parted ; divisions ovate, 
crenate, downy. Coro none. Filaments three, as long as the 
calyx. Anthers peltate, four-sided, four-celled ; cells cover- 
ed with lids.) Femaue. Racemes axillary, simple, erect. 
Bractes broad-lanceolate, notched, pointed, from one to two- 
flowered. Calyz as in the male. Corol none. Germ supe- 
rior, globular, covered with glutinous farina, one-celled, con- 
taining a single ovulum attached to the inside of the cell a 
little below the stigma. Style none. Stigma lateral, large, 
scabrous, Capsule round, of the size of a pea, fleshy, covered 
with clammy, waxy grains, with a groove on each side from 
the base to the vertex, one-celled, meidtiralvetl: Seed single, 
spherical, attached as in the germ, Integuments three ; the ex- 
terior one smooth, shining, of a blackish brown; the middle 
one nuciform, black, thick, hard, and very rough on the out- 
side, between it and the exterior tunic is a quantity of soft 
whitish pulp ; the inner one pure white, and very thin, Pe- 
risperm conform to the seed, white, fleshy. Embryo oblique- 
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