homalium

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In zoology, a genus of rove-beetles, of the family Staphylinidæ, of wide distribution and many species, which live upon plants or under the bark of trees.
• noun In botany, a large genus of dicotyledonous polypetalous shrubs or trees, founded by Jacques (1763), of the natural order Samydaceæ, and type of the tribe Homalieæ.