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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



103. Omphalea L.^ — Flowers mouoecious apetalous ; calyx 4-6- 

 partite imbricated. Disk wide orbicular entire, apex strictly 

 encu'cling staminal cohimn. Stamens 2, 3, central ; filaments con- 

 nate in short dilated column hemispherical or disciform incised at 

 margin, bearing 2-locular small anthers ; cells vertical extrorsely 

 rimose. Germen ia female flower sessile, 3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate; 

 style columnar immediately at apex inwardly stigraatiferous. Fruit 

 subfleshy, o-coccous ; cocci finally dehiscent ; seeds subglobose 

 exarillate ; cotyledons of thickly albuminous embryo auriculate 

 cordate at base. — Sarmentose shrubs ; leaves alternate or sub-oppo- 

 site, 2-stipulate petiolate, often wide, above base {^Eiwmphalea ^) or 

 below {Hecatea^) glanduliferous, entire or sub-lobed palmate-penni- 

 nerved ; flowers cymulose in simple or ramified racemes the central 

 female; bracts often linear-spathulate, 2 -glandular. [Trop. America^ 

 Malacassia}) 



104. Hura L.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; calyx cupuliform 

 imbricated ; male denticulate. Stamens central, l-adelphous ; 

 column elongated bearing above sessile anthers (cells longitudinally 

 adnatc to connective, extrorsely rimose ; connective rather thick pro- 

 minent) 2-or pkmverticillate. Female calyx gamophyllous suben- 

 tiro at mouth. Germen closely surrounded by calyx 5-20-locular ; 

 cells 1-ovulate ; style large erect cylindrical, afterwards poculiform- 

 dilated, multilacinate at apex ; lobes thick reflexed, sub-equal in num- 

 ber to cells, subconical fleshy, outwardly sulcate multi-costate ; cocci 

 ligneous-compressed exarillate ; radicle of inverse embryo short 

 superior ; cotyledons lateral suborbiculate, penninerved auriculate at 

 base. — Handsome trees ; leaves alternate petiolate 2-stipulate penni- 

 nerved glandular-paucidentate ; limb 2-glandular at base ; male 

 flowers spicate pedunculate, involucrate with spurious bracts; 



1 Ocn. n. 1093.— J. Gen. 392.— Pom. Diet. 

 Suppl. iv. 140 ; III. t. 753.— A. Jvss. Euphorh. 

 54, t. 17, ag. 58.— Enol. Gen.-D.. 6793.— H. Bn. 

 Euphorb. 527, t. 7, fig. 1-9.— M. Aro. Prod}: 

 1134. — OmphalaiidriaV. Bii. Jam. 335. — Duchula 

 Adams. Fam. dcs PI. ii. 357. — Momoia Buck. 

 Dixs. 18 ; Dec. iii. t. 8. — Hebecocca Beurl. 

 Prim. Fl. Portob. 146. 



- n. Bn.. Euphorb. 529. 



3 Dnr.-Tir. Hist. Via. Iks. Aiis'r. Afr. 27, t. 

 6 ; Ben. Noi: Madur/. 24. — Endl. Oen. n. 6794. 

 — H. Bn. Euphorb. loe. cit. sect. B. — Adeno- 



phijUnm Dup.-Th. Nov. Gen. Madag. loc. cit. 



* Spec. 8, 9. AuBL. Giiiaii. 843, t. 328.— Sw. 

 Obs. 349, t. 10.— Tuss. El. Aiit. iv. 18, t. 9.— 

 n. Bn. in Adansonia, v. 335. — M. Aug. in 

 Iwiireii, xxxii. 86. — Gkiseh. in Nachr. Vii. Giett. 

 (1865), 117. 



6 ffort. Cliff. 486, t. 34.— J. Gcii. 391.— Lamk. 

 III. t. 793.— PoiK. Diet. vi. 358.— A. Juss. Eu- 

 jhorb. 50. — Spach, Suit, d Puffoii, ii. 525, t. 

 76.— Endi.. Gcii. n. 5776.— H. Bn. -Euphorb. 

 641, t. 0, fig. 21-35.— M. Aro. Prodr. 1228. 





