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sepals 5, imbricate; lobes of the disk, or glands, 5, alternate with the stamens; 

 stamens 5 or rarely fewer, filaments free, opposite the sepals; anthers erect, 

 their cells distinct, longitudinally dehiscent; rudimentary ovary more or less 

 evident, slightly or markedly 2-3-fid. Female calyx like the male, the disk sub- 

 entire; ovary 3-eelled; styles distinct, recurved, 2-fid; ovules 2 in each cell. 

 [Greek, referring to the hard wood of the typical species.] About 8 species of 

 tropical and subtropical distribution. Type species: Securinega durissima 

 Gmel. 



1. Securinega Acidoton (L.) Fawcett, Journ. Bot. 57: 68. 1919. 



Adelia Acidoton L. Syst. ed. 10, 1298. 1759. 



Securinega Acidotliamnus Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15: 451. 1866. 

 Flueggia Acidotliamnus Griseb. Xachr. Gesell. Wiss. Goett. 1865: 164. 

 1865. 



An intricately much-branched shrub 3 m. high or less. Branches strongly 

 flexuous, delicately and sharply spinous; stipules ovate-lanceolate, minute, 

 caducous; leaves petiolate, broadly obovate, obtusely rotund, rigid, densely and 

 prominently reticulate-veiny, pale beneath, 6-8 mm. long, 2-6 mm. broad; 

 male flowers glomerate-fasciculate; female flowers solitary; styles connate 

 below, bifid, the branches broadly 2-3-lobed; fruit at first fleshy, obtusely 

 trigonal; seeds smooth," pallid. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Andros, New Providence, Cat Island. Great Exuma 

 and Long Island : Cuba to St. Jan and St. Croix ; Jamaica. Securinega. 



3. CICCA L. Mant. 1: 17, 124. 1767. 



A tree with distichous entire leaves and small monoecious flowers in leafy- 

 braeted lateral panicles. Calyx 4-parted, the segments unequal, imbricated. 

 Petals none. Male flowers with 4 distinct stamens, the anthers extrorse. Fe- 

 male flowers with a several-celled ovary, the styles 2-cleft; ovules 2 in each cell. 

 Fruit baccate, indehiscent. Seeds angular, pendulous. [Greek, wonderful 

 tree.] A monotypic genus. 



1. Cicca disticha L. Mant. 1: 124. 1767. 



Phyllanthus distichus Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15: 413. 1866. 



A tree, up to 12 m. high. Leaves ovate, pointed, 5-7.5 cm. long. Flowers 

 panicled, the panicles many-flowered, lateral, arranged along aphyllous 

 branches, the male and female mixed in the same fascicles; filaments alternating 

 with exterior glands; ovary 4 (3) -celled; fruit depressed-globose, angled, the 

 angles as many as there are seeds; seeds smooth. 



Adventitious after cultivation at Fresh Creek, Andros : Spontaneous , 

 cultivation in Florida and the West Indies; native of southern Asia. Otaheite 

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4. MARGARITARIA L. f. Suppl. 66, 428. 1781. 



Trees, shrubs or woody vines, with glabrous alternate entire leaves, and 

 small dioecious flowers, solitary or few together in the axils-. Calyx usually 

 4-parted. Disk urceolate. Staminate flowers usually with 4 distinct stamens. 

 Pistillate flowers with a 3-5-celled ovary and 3-5 distinct styles; ovules 2 in 

 each cavity. Fruit capsular, 3-5-lobed. [Greek, p^arl-like.] Four known 

 species, of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Margaritaria 

 nobilis L. f. 



