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CA1.YC1 FLORAE. 
limb 12-14-partite, in a double series, with the inner 
lobes alternate and narrower. Glandules 6-7, at the 
base of the inner lobes of the calyx. Stamens placed 
before the outer lobes among the glandules, in bundles 
of 3-6. Ovary superior, conical : styles 3, filiform. 
Shrubs, peculiar to America; with leaves ovali-oblong, acu- 
minate, serrate ; flowers spicato-racemose. The root of one of 
the species, Homalium Racoubea, is used in Guiana as a re- 
medy for gonorrhoea. 
1. Homalium racemosum. Racemed Homalium. 
Leaves membranaceous serrate, racemes axillary 
and terminal, flowers pedicelled, fascicules of stamens 
triandrous. 
Jacq. Amer. 170. t. 183. f. 72. — Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 989. 
HAB Port Royal mountains. 
FL. July, August. 
A shrub about 9 feet, or a tree 30-40 feet in height : branches 
patulous, roundish, flexuose, marked with white spots or dots. 
Leaves about 5 inches long, alternate, oblong, acuminate, ob- 
tusely serrate, smooth, shining above, nerved, reticulato-venose, 
of a thin texture : petiole short, smooth. Racemes axillary, rare- 
ly terminal, solitary, 3-5 inches long, many-flowered : peduncle 
terete, pubescent : flowers greenish -white, shortly pedicelled. 
Calyx villous ; the outer series 6-7 partite ; divisions lineari- 
lanceolate spreading; the divisions of the inner series alternating 
with those of the outer, ovato-oblong, spreading. Glandules 
subglobose, slightly villous, whitish. Stamens as in the generic 
character : anthers minute purplish. Ovary conical, elevated, 
hirsute: styles 3, filiform, glabrous. Capsule hard, ovato-acu- 
minate, 1 -locular, internally marked with three elevated villous 
lines: seeds brownish. 
According to Swartz, the leaves are only two inches long. 
ORDER LXII. TEREBINTHACEiE. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, polygamous or dioecious. 
Calycine sepals 3-5, more or less coalescing at the 
base ; aestivation imbricated. Petals rarely O, usually 
