. The natural history of plants. Botany. E UPHORBIA OE^. 137 Hiira crepitans. valvate or nearly so, with three erect and elongated stamens, the base of the fruit being dilated into a triangular mass like that of Stillingia ; Manchmeel {Hippomane), a tree of central South America, having the male diandrous flowers of Esocwcaria^ only distinguished by a drupaceous fruit with hard rugose and plurilocular stone; Carumbium, with the habit of Exccecaria, having two large imbricated sepals to the flower, equal or unequal, more or less thickened and glandular below, outside or in- side, one or more ci
. The natural history of plants. Botany. E UPHORBIA OE^. 137 Hiira crepitans. valvate or nearly so, with three erect and elongated stamens, the base of the fruit being dilated into a triangular mass like that of Stillingia ; Manchmeel {Hippomane), a tree of central South America, having the male diandrous flowers of Esocwcaria^ only distinguished by a drupaceous fruit with hard rugose and plurilocular stone; Carumbium, with the habit of Exccecaria, having two large imbricated sepals to the flower, equal or unequal, more or less thickened and glandular below, outside or in- side, one or more circles of stamens, central or nearly so, folded in two halves, applied against each other, and a dry or fleshy fruit; they belong j,jg (*). to the warm regions of Asia and Oceania. Om- phalea, with the general characters of the preceding genera, has a calyx with four or five divisions, and an androceum whose three or four anthers are inserted on the edge of a dilatation ia the form of a disk or mushroom surmounting a short central column. Hura (Fr., Sablier) has a cup-shaped calyx and an androceum whose central. Fig. 216. Female flower. Fig. 218. Fruit (4). Fig. 217. I/ong. sect, of female flower. column supports sessile, extrorse anthers disposed on two or several verticils (fig. 215.) The gynseceum is surrounded by a large style, dilating into a head resembling a coroUa, fleshy, with numerous thick or reflexed divisions (fig. 216, 217). The fruit (fig. 218), pluri- locular like the ovary, is a depressed capsule whose shells separate and open elastically with some noise. VOL. V. T. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Baillon, Henri Ernest, 1827-1895; Hartog, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. London, L. Reeve & Co.
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