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HOMALIUM. racemosum. 
Bunch-flowered Homalium. Acomas. 
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POLYANDRIA 7'RIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RosAcem. Jussieu gen. 334. Div. VI. Genera Rosaceis 
affinia. 
HoMAuNnz. Brown’s botany of Congo. 19. 
HOMALIUM. Cal. basi turbinatus semisuperus, limbo patens 6-7-par- 
titus, laciniis persistentibus. Pet. persistentia, 6-7, laciniis calycinis ma- 
jora. Glandule (nectaria Jacq.) 6-7, unguibus laciniarum calycis insidentes. 
Stam. plurima (18-24) perigyna, 8 aut 4 congenita ex basi cujusque petali: 
_ anth. subrotunde. Germ. semiinferum apice desinens in stylos 3-4; stig. 3-4, 
simplicia. Caps. semiinfera, limbo calycis petalisque patentissimis coriaceis 
cincta, 1-loc., apice 3-4-yalvis aut non dehiscens, intis polysperma; sem. 
pauca parictibus aflixa. Arbores aut frutices ; fol. alterna stipulacea; flores 
spicato-paniculati axillares, divisuris panicule bracteolatis, pedicellis medio 
articulatis. An Rhamnis affinius; an embryo absque albumine? Juss. 
Lc, 343. 
UH. racemosum, foliis serratis, racemis axillaribus terminalibusque, floribus 
pedunculatis. Swartz prot 86. ' 
Homalium racemosum. /acq. amer. 170. ¢. 183; fig. 72. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 
4225. Richard in actes de la soc. @hist. nat. de Paris 112. Swartz fi. 
ind. oceid. 2. 989. b 
-Acomas 2 grappes (Homalium racemosum), Lamarck encyc. 1. 32. 
Arbor 10-15 pedalis, ‘s. arbuscula, s. frutex: rami patuli, subdivisi, in- 
ermes, ramulis demim:tenuissimis rigidiusculis. Fol. petiolata, 2 pollic., ob- 
longa, utringue acuminata, obtuse serrata, Nervosa, Vvenosa, tenuiora, utrinque 
glabra: peti. breves glabri. Racemi azillares, varius terminales, solitarii, 
erecti, simplices, 3-5-pollic., hull rae es brevitéer pedicellati, alterni, 
approximati, albidi, magnitudine HyPERIci perforati; pedic. 1flort. Cal. 
semisuperus, bast turbinatus, G-7-partitus; lac. lincari-lanceolatis, patentt- 
bus, sesquilinearibus, villosiusculis. Pet. 6-7, fauci calycis inserta, laciniis 
calycinis alternantia et majora, ovato-oblonga, patentia, utrinque subto- 
mentosa s. sericea, ex albido lutescentia: - landule 6-7, ad basin petalorum 
posite, subglobose, villosiuscule, albe. Fil. 18-21, inter singulam glandu- 
lam tria omnia distincta, bast petalorum calycisque inserta, Jjiliformia: anth. 
subrotunde, sanguinee. Germ. medio calyce cinctum, supra faucem in 
formam conicam elevatum, hirsutum: styli 5, filiformes, longitudine ee 
num, glabri; stig. simplicia. Caps. semiinfera, dura, ovato-acuminata, 1-loc., 
apice 3-valv., inferne 8 lineis elevatis villosis notata, polysperma: sem. 
aliquot, fusca, parietibus affixa. Numerus partium variat. Swartz fl. ind. 
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The species was observed by Dr. Swartz, growing in 
~ meadows and at the sides of rivers, in the northern part of 
Jamaica, where it becomes a tree from 10 to 15 feet high. 
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