EUPHORBIAOE^. 229 



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

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

 flowers.^ {Equinoctial America Cont. and Ins.^) 



102. Carumbium Eeinw.* — Flowers monœcious apetalous ; male 

 calyx ventrally and dorsally compressed with receptacle ; leaves 2, 

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

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

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

 vacant centre (StomatocuI//x^), 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 2-3-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-o-merous sub-coriaceous, indéhiscent or with difiiculty 

 dehiscing, more rarely capsular-dehiscent ( JFartmannia ^) ) seeds reti- 

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

 small short aril.* — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate petiolate, 

 sometimes penninerved coriaceous {Pitneleodendron^, Stomatocalyx\ 

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

 dular at base ; stipules small or {Stomutocalyx\ usually wide mem- 

 braneous, free or connate amoug 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 suhtrop. Asia and Oceania}^') 



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



'^ A genus scarcely distinct from Excœcaria 1147. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, Ti. 349. 



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



pericarp. more or less evolute aril springing at first from 



■* Spec. 1 V. 2. — L. Spec. 1431. — Jacq. Amer. exostorae. 



250, t. 169.— Sw. Obs. 369.— W. Spec. iv. 571. ' Hassk. Cat. Sort. Bog. ed. Nov. 68; in 



—A. Rich. Cuba, iii. 200.— Gkiseb. Fl. Brit. Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr. vi. 716. 



W.-Ind. 49.— H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 352. '" Spec, ad 12. Geis. Orot. Mon. 80 {Croton). 



* Cat. Eort. Buitciiz. 105.— H. Bn. in Sortie. — Fohst. Prodr. 67 {Croton) .—Gukh. in New 



Franc, xv. 234; in Adansouia, vi. 348, t. 8.— Edbib. Journ. (1827), 175 [Omalanthus) ; in Bat. 



M. Arg. Prodr. 1143.— Z)«aHi« Noronh. Verh. Mag. t. 2780.— Blanco, Fl. d. Filipp. 787. — 



Bat. Gten. v. 65 (ex Hassk. Cat. Sort. Bog. Guillem. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, vii. 186 



233). — Omalanthus A. 3vs%. Eiiphorb. 60, t. 16, {Omalanthus). — Zoll. in Flora (1847), 662 



fig. 53 (nee Less.). — Endl. Oen. n. 5779. — H. {Somalanthus). — Mm. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 



Bn. Euphorb. 537, t. 8, fig. lï-'il.—Bibraehion 413.— M. Arg. in Flora (1864), 434 ; in Liiinœa, 



Reg. in Gartenfl. (1866), 100, t. 604. xxxii. 85.— F. Muell. Fragm. i. 32 {Omalan- 



5 Bartl. Ord. Nat. 372. </)««).— Benth. PI. Austral, vi. 149.— H. Bn. 



" Griff, ex M. Aro. in Linnœa, xxxiv. 202 ; in Adansonia, i. 352 ; ii. 228 ; vi. 325. 

 Prodr. 1142. 



