MANCHINEEL. 
Natural Order , Euphorbiacea: ? Linnsean Classification , 
Moncecia, Monadelphia. 
HIPPOMANE,t (Linn.) 
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Moncecious. — Male flowers with a subcampanulate, emarginate 
calyx and no corolla. A single columnar filament terminating 
in 4 anthers. — In the fertile flower there is a 3-leaved calyx 
and no corolla. Style very short. Stigma 6 or 7 cleft. Fruit , 
a drupe containing a 6 to 7 or more celled nut; each cell with 
one seed; the cells indehiscent. 
A large poisonous tree of tropical America, with alternate en- 
tire leaves; the male flowers clustered in interrupted terminal 
spikes. The fruit solitary and sessile, resembling an apple. 
MANCHINEEL. 
HIPPOMANE mancinella, foliis ovatis serratis . Linn. 
Willd. Sp. PI. Lamarck, Illust. tab. 793. Jacq. Amer. edit, 
pict. tab. 238. Aublet. Guian., vol. 2. p. 885. 
Malus americana , laurocerasi folio , venenata . Mancinello 
arbor seu Massinilia dicta . Commel. Hort., vol. 1. p. 131. 
tab. 68. 
Juglandi ajfinis arbor julif era, lactescens , venenata, pyrifolia, 
Mancanillo hispanis dicta . Sloane, Jamaic. Hist., vol. 2. 
p. 3. tab. 159. 
t From tWc?, a horse , and madness . The name, however, 
was applied by the Greeks to a very different plant which grew 
in Arcadia, said to render horses furious. 
