218 CALYCIFLORiE. 



limb 12-14-partite, in a double series, with the inner 

 lobes alternate and narrower. Glandules 6-7, at the 

 base of the inner lobes of the calyx. Stamens placed 

 before the outer lobes among the glandules, in bundles 

 of 3-6. Ovary superior, conical : styles 3, filiform. 



Shrubs, peculiar to America ; with leaves ovali-oblong, acu- 

 minate, serrate ; flowers spicato-racemose. The root of one of 

 the species, Homalium Racoubea, is used in Guiana as a re- 

 medy for gonorrhoea. 



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1. Homalium racemosum. Racemed Homalium. 



Leaves membranaceous serrate, racemes axillary 

 and terminal, flowers pedicel led, fascicules of stamens 

 triandrous. 



Jacq. Atner. 170. t. 183. f. 7'2.—Sivartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 989. 



HAB. Port Royal mountains. 



FL. July, August. 



A shrub about 9 feet, or a tree 30-40 feet in height : branches 

 patulous, roundish, flexuose, marked with white spots or dots. 

 Leaves about 5 inches long, alternate, oblong, acuminate, ob- 

 tusely serrate, smooth, sliining above, nerved, reticulato-venose, 

 of a thin texture : petiole short, smooth. Racemes axillary, rare- 

 ly terminal, solitary, 3-5 inches long, many-flowered : peduncle 

 terete, pubescent : flowers greenish-white, sh(U'tly pedicelled. 

 Calyx villous ; the outer series 6-7 partite ; divisions lineari- 

 lanceolate spreading; the divisions of the inner series alternating 

 with tliose of the outer, ovato-oblong, spreading. Glandules 

 subglobose, slightly villous, whitish. Stamens as in the generic 

 character : anthers minute purplish. Ovary conical, elevated, 

 hirsute : styles 3, filiform, glabrous. Capsule hard, ovato-acu- 

 minate, 1-locular, internally marked with three elevated villous 

 lines: seeds brownish. 



According to Swartz, the leaves are only two inches long. 



ORDER LXII. TEREBINTHACE^. ' 



Flowers hermaphrodite, polygamous or dioecious, 

 Calycine sepals 3-5, more or less coalescing at tlie 

 base; aestivation imbricated. Petals rarely O, usually 



