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93. H. Mancinella, L. Aitoreons; leaves ovate or elliptical, serrulate or crenate, 

 serrate, sMning, uuiglandular above at the base, as long as or twice as long as the petiole ; 

 racemes terminal.— 67. <. 198 s Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 238 ; Tuss. Fl.i.t.fi; Desc. Fl. 3. 1. 158. 

 ^A middle-sized, poisonous tree ; drupe subglobose, IV' diam., yellowish-green. — Has. Ja- 

 maica !, Pi^. ; S. Vincent !, ff«JW. ; Grenada J Trinidad, on the sandy seacoast ; [Cuba to Ve- 

 nezuela, and Panama !]. 



32. HURA, L. 



Flowers monoecious. Calyx cnpnliform, irregularly toothed. Column central, bearing 

 below its verticillate projections indefinite, sessile, extrorse anthers. Style simple, infondi- 

 buliform at the top : stigma many-lobed, with hanging, subulate branches. Capsule poly- 

 coccous. " Seeds compressed-round : testa as in Sapmm." — A milky, glabrous tree ; leaves 

 higlandmlar above at the base ; spikes oval or oblong, long-peduncled, terminal: 3 flowers 

 densely imbricated, $ at the base or in the superior axils. 



94. H. crepitans, L.—Tuss. M. 4,. t. 5; Desc. Fl. 2. t. 124.— A high tree; leaves 

 variable, about 2" diam., roundish, usually cordate, pointleted, serrate or subentire, often ' 

 shorter than the petiole; anthers usually 1-3-^riate. — Hab. Jamaica!, Pd., Macf., Al. ; 

 S.Vincent!, Guild.; Trinidad; [Cuba to Brazil]. Sandbox. 



33. OMPHALEA, L. 



Flowers monoecious. Calyx 5-4-partite. Column surrounded by a disc, central, agarici- 

 form, bearing 3-2 sessile extrorse anthers on the margin of its^ileus. Style simple, short : 

 stigma shortly 3-lobed. Pericarp drupaceous, 3-coccous. Seeds subglobose : testa of Sa- 

 pium. — "Woody plants ; leaves quite entire : stipules deciduous ; panicle terminal or axillary, 

 racemose ; bracts distant, large, spathulate-linear,from the axil of which arises a peduncled, 

 dichotomous, androgynous cyme, u/ith a central ? flower. 



95. O. triandra, Z. Arboreous; leaves oblong, oval, or cordate, glabrous,hig\a.niv\!iT 

 above at the base ; anthers 3. — Si - . Jam. - i , 83./. 4 - : mala ; Tuss. Fl. 4. «. 9 ; Besc. Fl. 2. 

 t. 80. — 0. uucifera, Sw. — A tree of various height ; drupe yellow, globose, furrowed, 14" 

 diam. — Hab. Jamaica !, M'Nab, Wils., common ; [Guiana]. 



96. O. diandra, L. Shrubby, trailing, pubescent ; leaves oblong, oval, cordate, pubes- 

 cent beneath, biglandular above at the base; anthers i.—Aubl. t. 328.— 0. cordata, Sw. 

 — I have seen only continental specimens, and doubt its being distinct from the preceding. 

 — Hab. Jamaica, Sw., on rocks; [Guiana!, equatorial Brazil!]. 



34. EXCCECARIA, L. 



Flowers naked, or usually with the calyx represented by a variable nranber of bracteoles. 

 Stamens 2-4 (1-16), distinct: anthers globose, extrorse. Styles 3, often united below: 

 branches simple. Capsule 3-coccous. Seeds caruncalate, smooth, globose or ovoid.- Woody 

 plants ; racemes amentiform, usually androgynous, with the ? flowers inferior. 



Baillon has united this genus partly with Sapium, from which it is distinguished chiefly by 

 the seeds, as also by the distinct stamens, if we adopt the hypothetical view that the organ, 

 regarded here as a pedicel, be a column in Sapium. According to the views of former 

 authors, there would be as many genera as there are West Indian species of Excoecaria, 

 but I adopt Bentham's view of the matter, and reduce to Excmcaria my Actinostemon 

 canbmis. Gymnanthes hypoleuea, Benth., is identical with my other Guadeloupe specie 

 (Rfarinosa). 



,Sect. 1. GyMT^AHia^s.— Flowers monoecious : <? bracts S-flowered; ° flowers long-pedi- 

 cellate. Seeds globose : caruncle pileiform. 



97. E. lucida, Sw. Glabrous ; leaves lanceolate or lanceolate-elliptical, remotely serrate 

 or subentire; aments eglaudular, sessile; 3 flowers 3-2-anarous, naked, unibracteolate : 

 filaments as long as the anther ; ? flower subsolitary, basilar or distinct, inferior, 3-bracteolate ■ 

 its pedicel neai-ly as long as the ament.— /mm. Euph. t. 55 : «Kffl/j<.— Gymnanthes, Sw —A 

 shrub, said to be poisonous ; leaves shining above, green beneath ; seeds li'" diam black ■ 

 caruncle distioct, pale.— Hab. Jamaica!, Macf., Pd., March, along the seashore; Antigua!, 

 Nichols.; [Cuba!, Guadeloupe!]. > b > 



