Sapium
(an old Latin name, originally given by Pliny to a resinous Pine; alluding to the unctuous exudation from the wounded trunk). SYNS. Carumbium, Stillingfleetia, Triadica. ORD. Euphorbiaceae. A genus comprising about twenty-five species of stove, evergreen, often glabrous trees or shrubs, broadly dispersed over the warmer regions of the globe. Flowers (? always) monoecious, apetalous, the males often three to a bract, the females many at the base of the spikes; spikes or racemes terminal, solitary, or in one species several, paniculate. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, or rarely toothed, penniveined; petioles often biglandular at apex. A few of the species have been introduced, but they are now probably lost to cultivation.