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MALPIGHIA fucata. 
"Houge-flowered stinging Barbadoes- Cherry. 
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DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Marrronum. Jussieu реп. 252. 
Div. II. Germen simplex. Fructus monocarpus, 
MALPIGHIA. Supra vol. 9. fol. 96. 
"M. fucata, ramis glabris, foliis ellipticis nitidis subtàr decumbenti-hispidie 
super nudiusculis; floribus axillaribus umbellatim corymbosis : petalo 
summo submajore margine lacinulato. 
Arbuscula erecta, ramosa, glabra. Folia 4-uncialia ultrdve elliptica, 
ecuta, nitida, intense viridia, costato-nervosa, subtüs hispidata aculeis setifor- 
wiibus bicuspidatis fragilibus urentibus fulvis longitudinalibus à medio айт 
superficiei folii para ipprozimati, suprà iisdem obsolescentibus таги 
consita. Pedunculi (tripartiti?) corymboso-umbellati, axillares, oppositi 
brevissimi: pedicelli plurimi, uni-biunciales, uniflori, bracteatim. interslincti, 
robusti, teretes, suprà subclavati, paul altiüs basi geniculo bisquamuloso arti- - 
culati. Cal. parvulus segmentis 5 ovato-oblongis obtusis concavis, germini 
adaptatis, dorso carunculá didymä elevatá ellipticd poris 2' mediis еті 
pertusá onustis. Сог. irre; s, :rotato-explanata, carnosa, firma, albido. 
rosea: pet.. cockleari-spathulata, distantia, :3 superiora majora lacinulato- 
dentata, medio ceteris submajore hastáto-rotundo aique insignis inciso; 2 ima 
hastato-ovata, integra. Stam. longitudine unguium petalorum, infra medium 
monadelpha, suprà conniventia: anth. oblonga, | , ad basin filamento 
brevi subulato infixa, biloculares, introrsum dehiscentes, loculis collaterali- 
adnatis parti plane introverse aculi crassi oblongi рой carinali. 
Germ. niens, ovato-oblongum, totundaté trigonum; stylis йн filiformibus 
continuis pari. brevioribus, fine stigmatoso | usato. res clausi 
pentagono-globosi, sisdem clausis Клм latifoliæ non dissimiles, _' ` 
< We have not traced the present plant in any published 
species. It is throughout upon a far larger scale-than urens 
of the 96th article of this work. Said to have been re- 
ceived from Germany a few years back by Messrs. Whitley, 
Brames, and Milne, of the Parson's Green nursery, where 
the drawing was taken. Probably native of the West 
Indies; requires to be kept in the bark-bed of the stove, 
where it flowers for a long time in succes: on and at various 
Seasons. 
Mazricmia is separated from Banis.erta, which it re- 
sembles in flower and habit, by its unilocular three-stoned 
drupe, in which the stones or nuts are one-seeded; the 
fruit of the latter being three gne-seeded samaras or keys, 
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