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1. M. mauritiana, Bojer , Sort. Maur. 283 (name only). A small 
tree, 15 to 20 feet high, with stout branchlets marked by the scars of 
fallen leaves. Young parts clothed with brown tomentum, which 
entirely disappears from the mature leaves. Leaves subcoriaceous, 
glabrous, foot long, entire, deltoid at the apex, equally rounded at 
the base, nearly as broad as long, with the petiole attached 1-li in. 
above the base and 7 ribs radiating from it ; petiole 3-1 in. long ; 
stipules \ in. long, lanceolate, caducous. Flowers of both sexes on 
ascending peduncles from the axils of the crowded leaves. Males in 
dense clusters, sessile, terminal and lateral on the peduncles, sub- 
tended bv tomentose foliaceous bracts with large glands near the edge. 
Male perianth in. long. Stamens 6-12 ; anthers 4-celled. Female 
flowers few to a peduncle, with an urceolate perianth-tube. Capsule 
follicular, glabrous, half an inch long, obliquely globose, crowned by 
the remains of the cylindrical style and large lanceolate stigma. Baill. 
Etud. Euphorb. t. 2\,jig. 8-9 ; Mull. Arg. in EC. Erod. xv. 2, 1009. 
Mauritius, in the woods of the Pouce range and at Vacquois, etc. Endemic. 
Bois Violin. 
4. SECURINEGA, Juss. 
Flowers dioicous. Perianth calycine, with 5 long lobes, with im- 
bricate aestivation. Stamens usually 5, inserted on the disk round a 
rudimentary ovary and alternating with glands ; filaments free, fili- 
form ; anthers oblong, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 3-celled ; 
cells 2-ovuled ; styles 3, bifid, short, connate. Fruit a septicidal 
capsule. — Shrubs, with alternate entire minutely stipulate leaves and 
abundant minute flowers in dense axillary fascicles. Distbib. Cos- 
mopolitan in the tropical and subtropical zones. Species 13. 
Leaves ovate, acute. Anthers dehiscing introrsely . . . . 1. S. durissima. 
Leaves obovate obtuse. Anthers dehiscing extrorsely . . . 2. S. obovata. 
1. S. durissima, Gmel. ; Mull. Arg. in EC. Erod. xv. 2, 447. A 
much-branched shrub or low tree with slender terete stiff branch- 
lets. Leaves short-petioled, coriaceous, ovate, acute, bright green, 
glabrous, 1-3 in. long, usually cuneate at the base. Male flowers 
about 20 in a dense cluster in the axils of the leaves ; pedicel finally 
as long as the perianth. Male perianth -fa in. long ; lobes deltoid, 
green. Stamens twice as long as the perianth. Female flowers fewer 
in a cluster, with longer (ultimately i— in.) pedicels, and narrower 
lobes, persistent and reflexed from the fruit. Capsule broader (*— ^in.) 
than long, obtusely lobed. S. nitida, Willd. ; Bojer , Sort. Maur. 277. 
Mauritius, in ravines of the Pouce range, etc. Rodriguez, abundant in the 
valleys, Balfour ! Also Bourbon. Bois dur. 
