228 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



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

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

 petiolate stij^ulate peuninerved veined, glanduliferous below ; flowers 

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

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

 {Brasilr) 



100. Pachystroma Kl.^ — Flowers mouœcious (nearly of Excce- 

 car/'a), 3-merous ; male calyx valvate or sub-valvate. Stamens 8, 

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

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

 imbricate. Gynteceum of Excacaria ; germen strictly enclosed in 

 calyx. Capsule 3-coccous; cocci 1-spermous; receptacle 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 

 from annular cicatrices of branches ; flowers (greenish-lutescent) 

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

 Excœcarid) large glanduliferous.^ (Brasil.^) 



101. Hippomane L." — Flowers monoecious (nearly of Excœcaria), 

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

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

 form drupaceous ; mesocarp fleshy ; putamen osseous unequally- 

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

 Excœcaria). — A tree ; juice milky; leaves® alternate (of ^a;c«?cana) 

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



1 A genus scarcely distinct from Excœcaria, ' Spec. 1. P. ilicifoUum Kl. loc. cit.- — Acan- 

 differa by conical receptacle, number of stamens, t/io/oiim fpiiwsiim Gaiidich. loc. cit. — P Excœearia 

 situation of chalaza (char, by themselves not ilicifolia Spreng. N. Entd. ii. 117. 

 absolute), and constitution of inflorescence and '' Octi. n. 1088. — J. Gen. 391. — Lamk. III. 

 branching. t. 793. — Desrotjss. Diet. iii. 694.— Neck. Ekm. 



2 Spec. 1 ? S. miiltiflora Makt. loc. cit.—U. ii. 344.— TtJRP. in Did. Sc. Nat. Atl. t. 278.— 

 Bs. in Aclaiisonia, v. 336 ; xi. 125. — S, angtis- A. Juss. Euphoil. 61, t. 16, fig. 54. — Spach, 

 lifvlla Kl. loc. cit.—S. lalifolia Kl.— ? *. ftfir à i?!//',,», ii. 524.— Endl. (7™. n. 5777.— 

 yraiiiii/ulia Kl. loc. cit. H. En. Euphorb. 539, t. 6, fig. 12-20.— M. Aeg. 



3 Kl. ex H. En. in Adansoma, 1, 212; xi. Pmlr. 1199.— Mniiemiilla Plum. Geii. 49, t. 30. 

 102.— M. Arg. in Liuiiœa, xxxiv. 177 ; Fnxlr. —Mniiciiiiila Tuss. FI. Ant. iii. 21, t. 5. 



893. — Acantholoma Gacdich. ex H. Bn. in ' Funicle slender obliquely descending in 



Adanmiiia, y\. 231, t. 1. woody channel of coccus; micropyle shortly 



■• A genus differing by m.alo valv.ite calyx conical without, very distinct and rather supe- 



from Excœcaria (of which it might be a sec- rior to ventral hilum. 



tionP), according to Aro. placed vnth Acalypha. ' Generally much recalling Piri communis. 



