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valvate or nearly so, ^yith tln-ee erect and elongated stamens, the 

 base of the fi-uit being dilated into a triangular mass like that of 

 StilUngia ; Manchineel {Hlppomanc)^ a tree of central South America, 

 having the male diandrous flowers of Excœcaria, 

 only distinguished by a drupaceous fruit with hard "'"' "■'^"'""•'■ 

 rugose and pluriloeular stone ; Canunl/iiini, with the 

 habit of Excœcarid, having two large imbricated 

 sepals to the flower, equal or unequal, more or 

 less thickened and glandular below, outside or in- 

 side, one or more circles of stamens, central or 

 nearly so, folded in two halves, applied against 

 each other, and a dry or fleshy fruit; they helongpi„. 2i5.Androceum(^). 

 to the warm regions of Asia and Oceania. Om- 

 phalea, with the general characters of the preceding genera, has a 

 calyx with fovu* or five divisions, and an andi'oceum whose three or 

 foiu' anthers are inserted on the edge of a dilatation in the form of a 

 disk or mushroom siirmounting a short central column. Hitra (Fr., 

 Sablier) has a cup-shaped calyx and an androceum whose central 



Hura cirpitans 



Fig. 216. Female flower. 



Fig. 218. Fruit (i). 



Fig. 217. Long. sect, of femnle 

 flower. 



column supports sessile, extrorse anthers disposed on two or several 

 verticils (fig. 215.) The gynœceum is surrounded by a large style, 

 dilating into a head resembling a corolla, fleshy, with numerous thick 

 or reflexed divisions (fig. 216, 217). The fi-uit (fig. 218), plm-i- 

 locular like the ovary, is a depressed capsule whose shells separate 

 and open elastically with some noise, 



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