2«8 NATURAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. 



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

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

 petiolate stipulate penninerved veined, glanduliferous below ; flowers 

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

 flowered ; tlie inferior on eacli brancli small, female ; others male.' 

 (Brasil^) 



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

 caria), 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. Gynseceum of Exctscaria ; 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 

 Exccecaria) large glanduliferous.* {Brazil}) 



101. Hippomane L.® — Flowers monoecious (nearly of ^a.'coscan'a), 

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

 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''' exariUate (of 

 Exccecaria). — A tree ; juice milky ; leaves ^ alternate (of Exccecaria) 

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



' A genus scarcely distinct from Exccecaria, * Spec. 1. P. ilidfolimn Kl. he. cit. — Acan- 



differa ty conical receptacle, numter of stamens, tholoma spinosum Gaudich. loc. cit. — f Excacaria 



situation of chalaza (char, by themselves not i/icifolia Spreng. N. Entd. ii. 117. 



absolute), and constitution of inflorescence and ^ Qen. n. 1088. — J. Gm. 391. — Lamk. III. 



branching. t. 793. — Desrcuss. Diet. iii. 694. — Neck. Elem. 



2 Spec. 1 ? <S. muUifiora Mart. loc. cit. — H. ii. 344. — Tukp. in Diet. So. Nat. Atl. t. 278.—. 



Bn. in Adansonia, v. 336 ; xi. 125. — 8. angus- A. Juss. JEaphorh. 61, t. 16, fig. 54. — Space, 



tifolia Kl. loc. cit. — S. latifolia Kl. — ? S. Smt. it Buffon, i\. 524. — Endl. <?««. n. 5777. — 



grandifoUa Kl. loc. cit. ' H. Bn. Euphori. 539, t. 6, fig. 12-20. — M. Abg. 



2 Kl. ex H. Bn. in Adaiisonia, 1, 212 j xi. Prodr. 1199. — Mancanilla Plum. Gen. 49, t. 30. 



102.— M. Arg. in Zinticsa, xxxiv. 177 ; Prodr. — Mancinella Teas. Fl. Ant. iii. 21, t. 6. 



893. — Acantlioloma Gatjdioh. ex H. Bn. in ' Funicle slender obliquely descending in 



Adansoma,yi. 231, t. 1. woody chaimel of coccus; micropyle shortly 



* A genus diflFering by male valvate calyx conical without, very distinct and rather supe- 



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



tionP), according to Ar8. placed ■vn'Ca. Acalypha. ^ Generally much recaUiug Piri commtmis. 



