HUPHORBlAGB.i-: 229 



inflorescence terminal (of Exececaria) ; bracts 2-glandular ; the infe- 

 rior surrounding 1 female flower ; the superior the co male ^ cymose 

 flowers.- {Equinoctial America Cont. and Ins?) 



102. Carumbium EErrrw.* — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; male 

 calyx veutrallj" and dorsally compressed with receptacle ; leaves 2, 

 equal or unequal, imbricated ; other sometimes rudimentary or un- 

 equally-gibbous, glandular dilated at base. Stamens co (4-40), in 2- 

 or more series, sub-central [Homalantlnoi ■') or shortly inserted round 

 vacant centre {Stomatocalyx^)^ surrounded outside by a receptacle 

 scarcely or more or less incrassate in disk ; filaments compressed, 

 free or connate at base ; anthers extrorse, 2-rimose. Female calyx 

 not compressed irregularly :3-3-fid eglandular within. Germen 2-3- 

 locular; cells 1-ovulate ; style branches 2, 3, more or less connate at 

 base, apex internally at margin, more or less dilated or reciu'ved. 

 Fruit 2-3-meroua sub-coriaceous, indehiseent or with difiiculty 

 dehiscing, more rarely capsular-dehiscent ( Wartmannia '^) ; seeds reti- 

 culate-sprinkled, furnished at apex with membraneous-lacerato or 

 small short aril.^ — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate petiolatc, 

 sometimes penninerved coriaceous {Pimcleodendron^, Stomatocalijx)^ 

 usually rhomboid-ovate membraneous, generally tuberculate-2 -glan- 

 dular at base ; stipules small or {Btomatocalyx)^ usually wide mem- 

 braneous, free or connate among themselves ; flowers in spikes or 

 axillary or oftener terminal racemes, simple or more or less ramified ; 

 female inferior few ; others male generally in axils of bracts cymose. 

 {Trop. and subtrop, Asia and Oceania}'^) 



' Greenish lutescent. ' M. Arg. in Linncea, xxxiv. 218 ; Prodr. 



- A genus scarcely distinct from Exccucaria 1147. — H. Bn. in Adansoiiia, vi. 349. 



except by the number of cells and nature of * The origin of which is always the same, the 



pericarp. more or less evoluto aril springing at first from 



■' Spec. 1 V. 2. — L. Spec. 1431. — Jacq. Amcr. cxostome. 



250, t. 1.59.— Sw. Obs. 369.— W. Upcc. iv. 671. ^ Hassk. Cat. Rort. Bmj. ed. Nov. 68 ; in 



—A. Kick. Cuba, iii. 200.— Giuseh. Fl. Brit. Bull. Soc. Hot. de Fr. vi. 716. 



W.-Iiid. 49.— H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 352. '° Spec, ad 12. Gkis. dot. Man. 80 (Crofaii). 



* Cat. Hi>rt. BuUciix. 105. — H. Bn. in Hortic. — FousT. rrmlr. 07 (Crutoii). — Gkah. in New 



Fianf. XV. 234 ; in Ad/iiisoiiia, vi. 348, t. 8. — Edinb. Joiirit. (1827), 175 [Omalaiitlius) ; in Bot. 



M. Aug. Prodi: 1143. — Diiaiiin Noronk. Vcrh. May. t. 2780. — Blanco, Fl. d. Filipp. 787. — 



Bat. Oen. v. 65 (ox Hassk. Cat. Sort. Borj. Guillem. in Ami. He. Nat. scr. 2, vii. 186 



233). — Omalaiitlius A. Jvss. Eiiphorb. 50, t. 16, {Omalaiitlius). — Zoll. in Flora (1847), 602 



lig. 53 (ncc Less.). — Endl. Gen. n. 6779. — H. {Homalaiitlius). — Mm. Fl. Iiid.-Bat. i. p. ii. 



Bn. Eitphorb. 537, t. 8, %. 22-31.— Dibraeliioii 413.— M. Aug. in Flora (1864), 434 ; in Liiiiirea, 



liKi;. in Gartciijl. (1866), 100, t. 504. x.xxii. 85.— 1'\ Mvell. Fragm. i. 32 (Omalaii- 



•'' Bartl. Old. Nat. 372. <.^m.«).— Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 149.— H. Bn. 



" GRm-. ex M. Aro. in LinntBa, xxxiv. 202; in Adaiisoiiia, i. 352 ; ii. 228 ; vi. 325. 

 \ Prodr. 1142. 



