Am 



^f 



* 



MONCECIA TETRANDRIA. 



CICCA.* 



Euphorbiie. Juss\ — Enpliorbiacese. De Cand. 



dhticJia, C. foliis pinnatis: foliolis oblongis, race- 

 mis lateralibus. WUM. Sp. PL 4. p. 332. 



Hort. Keiv. 5. p. 258. 



b 



Phyllanthus longifolia. Jacq. Scham. 2. 



P 



. 36. L 194. 



Averrhoa acida. Lin. Sp, PL 613. 

 Long-leaved Cicca. Aifim. 

 Otaheite Gooseberry. 



^ The seed vessel of the Cicca has been variously described: 

 by some as an apple, by others as a berry. Willdenow states 



^ 



it to be a capsule, — '* capsula tetracocca^ non dehisceiis subcar- 

 uosa." It is, however, a subrotund nionospermous drupe, eight 

 furrowed, the alternate furrows deeper. The nut is subrotund, 

 flattened at the ends, and furrowed to correspond with Ihp drupe, 

 f-pur-cellod, each cell sin^rle-seeded. 



