EUPHORBIAOE^ 229 



inflorescence terminal (of Exccecaria) ; bracts 2-glandular ; tlie infe- 

 rior surrounding 1 female flower; tlie superior the oo male^ cymose 

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



102. Carumbium Reinw.* — Flowers monoecious 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 [Stomatocalyx ®), 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 recurved. 

 Fruit 2-3-merous sub-coriaceous, indehiscent or with difficulty 

 dehiscing, more rarely capsular-dehiscent ( Wartmannia '^) ; seeds reti- 

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

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

 sometimes penninerved coriaceous {Pimeleodendron^, Stomatocalyx), 

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

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

 braneous, free or connate among themselves ; flowers in spikes or 

 axillary or oftener terminal racemes, simple or more or less ramifled ; 

 female inferior few ; others male generally in axils of bracts cymose. 

 {Trop. and suhtrop. Asia and Oceania}'^) 



1 Greeniah lutescent. ' M. Aeg. in Mnncea, xxxiv. 218 ; Frodr, 



2 A genus scarcely distinct from Exoaca/ria 1147. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, yi. 349. 



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



pericarp. more or less evolute axU springing at first from 



■* Spec. 1 V. 2. — L. Spec. 1431.— Jaoq. Amer. exostome. 



250, t. 159.— Sw. Obs. 369.— W. Spec. iv. 571. ' Hassk. Cat. Sort. Bog. ed. Nov. 68 ; in 



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



W.-Ind. 49.— H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 352. '" Spec, ad 12. Geis. Grot. Man. 80 (Croton). 



* Cat. Sort. Buitenz. 105.— H. Bn. in Sortie. — Fokst. Trodr. 67 (CV-oiow) .—Grah. in New 

 Franf. xv. 234 ; in Adansonia, vi. 348, t. 8.— Minb. Journ. (1827), 175 {Omalanthus) ; in Bot. 

 M. Aro. Prodr. 1143. — Duania Nobonh. Verh. Mag. t. 2780. — Blanco, Fl. d. Filipp. 787. — 

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

 233). — Omalanthus A. Jvss. Fuphorb. 50, t. 16, {Omalanthus). — Zoll. in Flora (1847), 662 

 fig. 63 (nee Less.).— Endl. Gen. n. 6779. — H. {Somalanthus). — Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 

 Bn. Euphorb. 637, t. 8, fig. 22-31. — Dibrachion 413.— M. AuQ. in Flora (1864), 434 ; in Zinnaia, 

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



* Babtl. Ord. Nat. 372. iA«««).— Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 149.— H. Bn. 

 8 Geiit. ex M. Aug. in Linnma, xxxiv. 202 ; in Adansonia, i. 352 ; ii. 228 ; vi. 325. 



Frodr. 1142. 



