Caseuria.] 
LV. SAMYDACEjE. 
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glabrous, rather above 1 line diameter when open, 5-lobed. Stamens 8, 
alternating with as many short truncate staminodia, usually scarcely pubescent. 
Ovary glabrous, tapering into a short style ; stigma entire. Placentas 3, the 
ovules not numerous. 
Hab.: Brisbane River, F. v. Mueller. 
The species to which this plant seems referable is widely spread over E. India. It may be 
the same as C. ovata, Willd., and C. zeylanica, Thw., as doubtfully suggested by Thwaites, 
Enum. Ceyl. PL 19, but both of those appear to have the ovary hirsute. — Benth. 
C. B. Clarke, in Hooker’s FI. Brit. Ind. ii. 592, considers the Queensland C. esculenta as 
identical with the Ceylon var. angusta of that species. 
2. C. Dallachii (after J. Dallachy), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 107 and 214 ; 
Bcntli. FI. Austr. iii. 809. A small tree nearly glabrous. Leaves shortly 
petiolate, ovate, shortly acuminate, 3 to 4in. long, pellucid-dotted, minutely 
tomentose near the base or quite glabrous. Flowers densely clustered, hoary- 
pubescent, the pedicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx-segments 5, orbicular, 
about 1 line long. Stamens 10 to 12, alternating and more or less united with 
as many staminodia, which are bearded at the end. Ovary more or less hirsute 
at the top ; style very short and thick, with a large undivided stigma. Placentas 
3. Fruit red, or rarely yellow, ^in. long, oval, 6-angled, indehiscent or shortly 
3-valved at the apex. Seeds 10 or fewer, ovate-globose, angular, 1-1 line long ; 
testa smooth, brown. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
Very nearly allied to C. glabra, Roxb. (which appears to be a variety only of the common 
Indian C. tomentosa), differing in the rather thicker calyx-lobes and more numerous stamens. — 
Benth. 
C. B. Clarke, in Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. ii. 593, places this species under C. tomentosa , Roxb. 
2. HOMALIUM, Jacq. 
(From the stamens being equal in number to the petals.) 
(Blackwellia, Juss.) 
Calyx-tube turbinate or oblong, adherent to the ovary at the base ; lobes 4 to 
12. Petals as many as calyx-lobes. Stamens 1 or more opposite each petal, 
with 1 gland opposite each calyx-lobe. Ovary 1-celled, adherent in the lower 
part, conical and free in the upper portion, crowned with 3 to 5 styles, either free 
or united into one ; placentas as many as styles, in the upper free part of the 
ovary, with 2 to 6, usually 4 ovules to each. Fruit slightly enlarged, surrounded 
by the persistent calyx-lobes and petals, and usually opening at the top in short 
valves between the placentas. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves not dotted. Flowers in 
axillary spikes or racemes, or in terminal panicles. 
A considerable tropical genus, chiefly Asiatic and African, with a few American species. Of 
the 3 Queensland species, one is also in the islands of the South Pacific, the others are endemic. 
Leaves and flower-spikes above 2in. long. Calyx-segments usually 8 to 
10, with as many petals of about the same size. Stamens 2 or 3 
opposite each petal 1. H. vitiense. 
Racemes 3 to 4in. long. Calyx-lobes 5 to 6 2. H. circumpinnatum. 
Leaves and flower-spikes under 2in. long. Calyx-segments usually 5. 
Petals as many but larger. Stamens solitary, opposite each petal . . 3. H. brachybotrys. 
1. H. vitiense (of Viti), Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 36; Benth. FI. 
Austr. iii. 310. A tree, glabrous except the inflorescence, or rarely a few 
appressed hairs on the under side of the leaves. Leaves broadly ovate, obtuse 
or very shortly and obtusely acuminate, irregularly and often obscurely sinuate- 
crenate or undulate, 2 to 4in. long, on petioles of from a to iin. or rarely longer. 
Flowers very nearly sessile, in simple or branched spikes, varying from 2 or 3in. 
long and rather dense, to twice that length and interrupted, the rhachis and 
flowers more or less pubescent. Calyx- tube narrow-turbinate, ^ to f line long ; 
