380 NATURAL HISTORY OP PLANTS. 



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

 partite imbricated. Disk wide orbicular entire, apex strictly 

 encircling staminal column. Stamens 2, 3, central; filaments con- 

 nate in sbort dilated column hemispberical or disciform incised at 

 margin, bearing 2-locular small antbers ; cells vertical extrorsely 

 rimose. Germen in female flower sessile, 3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate; 

 style columnar immediately at apex inwardly stigmatiferous. Fruit 

 subflesby, 3-coccous ; cocci finally debiscent; seeds subglobose 

 exarillate ; cotyledons of tbickly albuminous embryo auriculate 

 cordate at base. — Sarmentose sbrubs ; leaves alternate or sub-oppo- 

 site, 2-stipulate petiolate, often wide, above base (Uuomphalea ^) or 

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

 nerved ; flowers cymulose in simple or ramified racemes the central 

 female; bracts often linear-spatbulate, 2-glandular. (Trop. Jmerica, 

 Malacassia^) 



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

 imbricated ; male denticulate. Stamens central, l-adelpbous ; 

 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-locular ; 

 cells 1-ovulate ; style large erect cylindrical, afterwards poculiform- 

 dilated, multilacinate at apex ; lobes thick reflexed, sub-equal in num- 

 ber to cells, subcorneal 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; 



1 G-en. n. 1093.— J. Gen. 392.— Pom. Diet. phyllum Dup.-Th. Hov. Oeti. Madag. he. eil. 



Suppl. iv. 140 ; III. t. 753.— A. Juss. Euphm-h. * Spec. 8, 9. Aubl. Guiaii. 843, t. 328.— Sw. 



54, t. 17, fig. 58.— Endl. Qen.n. 5793.— H. Bn. Obs. 349, t. 10.— Tuss. Ft. Ant. iv. 18, t. 9.— 



Euphorb. 627, t. 7, fig. 1-9.— M. Aeg. Frodr. H. Bn. in Adansonia, v. 335.— M. Ako. in 



1134. — OmphalandriaV. Br. Jam. 335. — Buehola Linncsa, xxxii. 86. — Griseb. in Naehr. Tin. Gcett. 



Adaus. Fam. des Fl. ii. 357. — Momoia Buoh. (1865), 117. 



Diss. 18 ; Dec. iii. t. 8. — Hebecocca Beuel. * FCort. Cliff. 486, t. 34.— J. Gen. 391. Lamk. 



Prim. Fl. Fortob. 146. III. t. 793.— Pom. Diet. vi. 358.— A. Juss. Eu- 



" H. Bn. Euphorb. 629. phorb. 60.— Spach, Suit, d, Buffon, ii. 625, t. 



3 Dnp.-TH. Rist. Vig. Iks. Ausir. Afr. 27, t. 76.— Enbi,. Gen. u. 5776.— H. Bn. •Euphori. 



5 ; Gen. Nov. Madag. 24.— Endl. Gen. n. 6794. 541, t. 6, fig. 21-36.— M. Aug. Prodr. 1228. 

 — H. Bn. Sitphorb. loo. cit, sect. B. — Adeno- 



