E UPHORBIA OE^. 



137 



Hiira crepitans. 



valvate or nearly so, with three erect and elongated stamens, the 

 base of the fruit being dilated into a triangular mass like that of 

 Stillingia ; Manchmeel {Hippomane), a tree of central South America, 

 having the male diandrous flowers of Esocwcaria^ 

 only distinguished by a drupaceous fruit with hard 

 rugose and plurilocular stone ; Carumbium, with the 

 habit of Exccecaria, 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 belong j,jg 215. Androoeum(*). 

 to the warm regions of Asia and Oceania. Om- 

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

 calyx with four or five divisions, and an androceum whose three or 

 four anthers are inserted on the edge of a dilatation ia the form of a 

 disk or mushroom surmounting a short central column. Hura (Fr., 

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



Fig. 216. Female flower. 



Fig. 218. Fruit (4). 



Fig. 217. I/ong. sect, of female 

 flower. 



column supports sessile, extrorse anthers disposed on two or several 

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

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

 or reflexed divisions (fig. 216, 217). The fruit (fig. 218), pluri- 

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

 and open elastically with some noise. 



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