Hyeronima 



EUPHORBIACE/I?: 



271 



fringed. Ovary ovoid-cylindrical, glabrous. Fruit globular, apiculate, 

 with persistent styles, 2 mm. 1., nearly the same in diam. 



Fig. 88. — Hyeronima cluxioides Muell. Arg 



A, Poition of leaf showiug on the under 



side a nerve, liairs, and scale-hairs 

 X 33. 



B, ^lale flower cut lengtliwise x 11. 

 f. Female flower X 11. 



D, Ditto cut lengthwise x 11. 



E, Fruit cut lengthwise x 11. 



V, Seed of U. alchorneaides cut length- 

 wise, enlarged. After Tulasne in Fl. 

 Bras. 



5. SAVIAWilld. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, entire, stiffly mem- 

 branous or leathery. Flowers dioecious, with rudimentaiy 

 petals, axillai-y, male densel)'^ clustered, subses.sile, female solitary 

 or few, with short or long pedicels. Male flowers : Sepals 5, 

 subequal, imbricate. Petals small, sublincar. Disk ring-like, 

 outside the stamens in the male flower. Stamens 5, opposite the 

 sepals ; filaments free ; anther-cells close together, opening longi- 

 tudinally. Ovary rudimentary, with 3 short styles. Female 

 flowers : Sepals and petals like those of the male. Disk ring- 

 like. Ovary 3-celIed ; styles separate, spreading above, with 

 two awl-.shaped acuminate branches ; ovules 2 in each cell. Cap- 

 sule breaking up into 2-valved cocci. Seeds ovoid or 3-edged ; 

 without a caruncle. 



Species about 10, West Indies. 



Leaves elliptical to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate 



Leaves obovate-elliptical, with rounded apex 



1. S. sessiliflora. 



2. S. erythroxyloidcs. 



