230 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



103. Omphalea L.^ — Flowers monoecious apctalous ; calyx 4-5- 

 partitc imbricated. Disk wide orbicular entire, apex strictly 

 encii-cling staminal column. 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 in female flower sessile, 3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate; 

 style columnnr immediately at apex inwardly stigmatiferous. Fruit 

 subfleshy, 3-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 (Euomphalea ^) or 

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

 nerved ; flowers cymxilose in simple or ramified racemes the central 

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

 Malacassia.'^) 



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

 imbricated ; male denticulate. Stamens central, 1-adolphous ; 

 column elongated bearing above sessile anthers (cells longitudinally 

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

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

 tire at mouth. Germen closely surrounded by calyx 5-20-locuIar ; 

 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; 



I Q,it. n. 1093.— J. Gen. 392.— Pom. Diet. phyllvm Dup.-Th. Nov. Gen. Mntlnr,. lac. eit. 



Suppl. iv. 140 ; III. t. 753.— A. Jvss. Euphorb. * Spec. 8, 9. Axjbl. Gniaii. 843, t. 328.— Sw. 



54, t. 17, fig. 68.— Endl. Gen.n. 5793.— H. Bn. Obs. 349, t. 10.— Tuss. Fl. Aiit. iv. 18, t. 9.— 



Riphnrb. 527, t. 7, fig. 1-9.— M. Arc. Frodr. H. Bn. in Ailansonm, v. 335.— M. Aug. in 



1134. — Omphalaiidria P. Bii. Jam. 336. — Siichola Lhiiiœd, xxxii. 8G.— GiusEii. in Nachr. Un. Gœtt. 



Adans. Fmn. des Fl. ii. 357. — Fomoia Buck. (1S65), 117. 



n/'\s. 18 ; Dec. iii. t. ?,.—Sebecocca Beurl. * Hurt. Cliff. 486, t. 34.— J. Gen. 391.— Lamk. 



Prim. Fl. Fortob. 146. J!l. t. 793.— Pom. Diet. vi. 35S.— A. Juss. Eu- 



' H. Bn. Eu2>horb. 529. jliorb. 60.— Spach, Suit, à Buffo», ii. 525, t. 



3 Dup.-Th. Hist. Vég. Iks. Jus'r. Jfr. 27, t. 70.— Endi,. Gen. n. 6776.— H. Bn. -Euphorb. 



6 ; Geii. Nov. Madag. 24.— Endl. Gen. n. 5794. 641, t. 6, fig. 21-35.— M. Aeo. Prodr. 1228. 

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



