228 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



3-merous. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds arillate at micropyle ; chalaza 

 placed at middle of internal angle. — A glabrous tree ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate stipulate penninerved veined, glanduliferous below ; flowers 

 in much ramified terminal racemes ; bracts crowded, 2-glandular, 1-3- 

 flowered ; the interior on each branch small, female; others male.' 

 {Brazil.-) 



100. Pachystroma Kl.-^ — Flowers monoecious (nearly of Exccv- 

 caria), 3-mcrous ; male calyx valvate or snb-valvate. Stamens 8, 

 alternating with sepals, 1-adelphous; filaments erect; anthers basifixed 

 erect ; extrorsely rimose. Sepals of female flowers strictly involute- 

 imbricate. GyniTccenm of Excacaria ; germen strictly enclosed in 

 calyx. Capsule 3-coccoiis ; cocci 1 -spermous ; recei^tacle in short 

 columella 3-cornuate incrassate at base ; seeds exarillate. — A glabrous 

 tree ; juice milky ; leaves alternate coriaceous repando-spinose 

 (holly-like), shortly petiolate ; stipules wide at base, thence marked 

 fi'om annular cicatrices of branches ; flowers (greeuish-lutescent) 

 terminal spicate ; female 1 or few inferior ; others male ; bracts (of 

 Ewcoicaria) large glanduliferous.'* {Brazil}) 



101. Hippomane L.'' — Flowers monoecious (nearly of ^a.ra;mna), 

 2-3-merous ; calyx imbricated. Stamens 2, central (of Exccecaria). 

 Germen 5-10-locular ; style branches same in number. Fruit pomi- 

 form drupaceous ; mesocarp fleshy ; putameu osseous unequally- 

 rugose; cells 5-10, 1 -spermous. Seeds descendent' exarillate (of 

 Excwcaria). — A tree ; juice milky; leaves^ alternate (of ^wa?c«r/a) 

 long petiolate stipulate ; limb denticulate, 1-2-glandular at base ; 



' A genus scarcely distinct from Exeaearia, * Spec. 1. P. ilicifolinm Kl. loc. cit. — Acaii- 



diffors by conical receptacle, number of stamens, tlinlomo xpiiiusmn Gavdick. loc. cit. — ? £.rc<rcaria 



situation of cbalaza (char, by themselves not ilicifolia Spheng. N, Entd. ii. 117. 

 absolute), and constitution of inflorescence and " Oen. n. lOSS.^J. Goi. 391. — Lamk. III. 



branching. t. 793.— Desrouss. Dicif. iii. 694.— Neck. j?ioH. 



2 Spec. 1 ? S. miiUiflora SIakt. loc. ciL—li. ii. 344.— Turp. in Diet. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 278.— 



B.N. in Adaiisoiiia, v. 336 ; xi. 125. — iS'. niiyns- A. Jiss. JSuphoib. 61, t. 16, fig. 54. — Spach, 



llfolin Ki.. loc. cit. — fi. lalifolia Kl. — ? f-'. Suit, n Bufun, ii. 624. — Endl. Qcn. n. 6777. — 



(jvaiuUfolia Kl. loc. cit. H. Bn. EiipJinrb. 539, t. 6, fig. 12-20.— M. Ahg. 



^ Ki,. ex H. Bn. in A/hmmiin, 1, 212; xi. Pnili: Um.—Mniicmiilla Plum. Cra. 4-9, t. 30. 



102. — M. Aug. in Liiinwa, xxxiv. 177 ; Piodr. — Jfniiciiiella Tuss. Fl. Ant. iii. 21, t. 5. 

 893. — Acmitholoina Gaudich. ex H. Bn. in ? Funicle .slender obliquely descending in 



Adaii.vouia^ vi. 231, t. 1. woody channel of coccus ; micropyle shortly 



■• A genus differing by male valvate calyx conical without, very distinct and rather supe- 



from Bi'cacaritt (of which it might be a sec- rior to ventral hihim. 

 tion!'), according to Alto, placed wiih Acali/j>/ia. " Generally nuich recalling Pjci commuiiis. 



