E Casearia. | LII. SAMYDACER. 309 
_ dotted with a mixture of round and oblong transparent dots. Stipules lateral. 
į Flowers usually small, in axillary clusters. 
. Aconsiderable genus, chiefly American, with a few African and Asiatic species. The only 
Australian species appears to be a common Indian one. 
Lem set dotted. Stamns8 . . ........ LL C. esculenta, 
Waves pellucid-dotted, Stamens 10 to 19... . . . . . . 8, C. Dallachii. 
. Ll C. esculenta, Boch Fl. Ind. ii. 422. A large shrub, usually quite 
|o the branches not angular. Leaves from oval-elliptical to nearly ob- 
‘mg, acuminate, narrowed at the base, 2 to 4 in. long or sometimes rather 
More, scarcely coriaceous, but not dotted. Flowers very small, in axillary ` 
dusters, the pedicels about 1 line long. -Calyx glabrous, rather above 1 line 
r when open;*5-lobed. Stamens 8, alternating with as man 
t staminodia, usually scarcely pubescent., Ov labrous, tapering 
Win a short style; stigma enti Placentas 3, the ovules not numerous. 
Queens Brisbane river, F. Mueller. 
o species to which this plant seems referable is widely spread over E. India. It may: 
the same as C. ovata, Willd., and C. zeylanica, Thw., as doubtfully suggested by Thwaites, 
: lun. Ceyl. Pl. 19, but both of those appear to have the ovary hirsute. 
"lied stigma, P] 
wi d. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy.—Very nearly allied to C. glabra, Roxb. 
: e to be a variety only of the Sep Indian C. tomentosa), differing in the 
poms ker ealyx-lobes, and more numerous stamens. 
2. HOMALIUM, Jacq. 
3 ; (Blackwellia, Juss.) 
E ip tube turbinate or oblong, adherent to the ovary at the base 8 lobes A 
` Fetals as many as calyx-lobes,. Stamens 1 or more opposite each 
dei, Dening at the top in short valves between the placentas.— c 
UAE NUN not dotted. Flowers in axillary spikes or racemes, or m 
nicles. 
Considerable troni ; -- : $ American species. 
TOpical genus, chiefly Asiatic and African, with a few Am : 
d Australian species, one is x dn in the islands of the South Pacific, the other is 
JO UR above 2 in.long. Calyx-segments — 8 
Opposite each be e Apm S M" the same — Segen : x LH. vifieue: 
