Boussclia 



URTICACE.E 



85 



G9 t. II. /. 2 (1787) ct Fl. Lid. 



U. lappulacea Sio. op. cit. viii. 

 Occ. 317. (Fig. 22.) 



Very common in rocky places and in crevices of walls ; in fl. in ]March 

 and April ; Wright ! Liguanea, Broughton ! Swartz ; Bethany, Wull- 

 schlaegel 1303 ! Wilson ! Moneague, Prior ! Jackson Town, Miss A. 

 Moulton-Barrettl Holly INIount, Mt. Diabolo ; New Market, 1150 ft. ; Kemp- 

 shot, 1100-1600 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 8501, 9S79, 10,324. Cuba, Hispaniola, 

 Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Dominica. 



Plant 1-5-4 dm. Leaves 5-l-5(-3) cm. 1. i*^<??uaZ6 6rac^ with hooked 

 hairs. Floivers generally in axils of the terminal leaves of the branches. 

 Male perianth red, hirtellous ; stamens white. Female perianth green; 

 stigmas white. 



Family X. OLACACE^. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers small, 

 hermaphrodite. Calyx small, cup-shaped, persistent. Petals 

 45, free or united below into a campanulate corolla, inserted on 

 the receptacle or at the margin of a disk, vah^ate. Stamens free 

 or inserted on the petals. Disk w^ell developed and adnate to 

 the ovary, or ^vanting. Ovary (in Jamaican species) 3-celled 

 below, with a central placenta at the apex ; ovules 3, pendulous. 

 Fruit a drupe, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Embryo minute, at the apex 

 of the fleshy endosperm. 



Species nearly 150, natives of tropical and subtropical regions 

 of the world. 



Petals bearded inside 1. Ximenia. 



Petals inserted at the margin of a disk 2. Schcepfia. 



1. XIMENIA L. 



Shrubs or trees, wdth or without spines. Flow^ers in short 

 axillary cymes or solitary. Calyx with four or five teeth or lobes. 



Fig. 23. Ximenia americana L. 



A, Jb'lower-bearing shoot. 



B, Flower ; o, anthers. 



C, Pistil. 



D, Dnipe. 



Petals 4 (or 5), hypogynous, narrow, bearded inside, 

 free, twice as many as the petals. Drupe ellipsoidal. 



Stamens 



