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Mabea (from piriri-mabe, the name in Guiana). Euphorbiaceae. Climbing or creeping shrubs, some with economic uses, if not in cult. Juice milky: lvs. alternate, simple, pinnately veined, short - petioled, pubescent: fls. monoecious, apetalous; staminate calyx 3-5-lobed, lobes imbricate; stamens 10-70; styles connate into a long, slender column, free above; ovary 3-celled, 1 ovule in each cell; seeds carunculate.—Thirty species in Trop. S. Amer. Related to Sapium and Stillingia. M. fistulosa, Mart., is used in Brazil for pipe-stems and in medicine. This species and M. occidentalis, Benth. (M. Piriri, Benth.), yield some rubber.
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==Species==
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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