118 MALPIGHIACEiE. 



fertile; appendage of the stigma, linear-uncinate, compressed; rrnts costate laterally. — Cav. 

 Diss. 9. t. 257./. 1. — Banisteria oyata, Cav. ; caleitrapa, Desv.; brachyptera, DC; aUophylla, 

 Rchb. I — A shrub, a few feet high, trailing with scandent branches. — Hab. Jamaica \, Macf, 

 Wils., in salt-marshes on the seaside, to Trinidad !, Sieb. Tr. 52 ; [Panama !, Guiana !, nor- 

 thern Brazil I]. 



6. STIGMAPHYLLON, Jus*. 



Calyx 8-glandnlar. Stamens 6 fertile, 4 abortive. Styles 3 : stigmas prodnced exter- 

 nally into a leafy (or uncinate) appendage, or compressed-truncate. Samara with the wing 

 thickened on the superior margin. — Climbing shrubs; petioles Mglandular ; flowers in pe- 

 duncled, umbelliform corymbs : pedicels articulated usually below the middle ; petals 

 yellow, large (4"'-5"' long), fimbriate or dentate. 



Sect. 1. Eustigmaphyllok. — Appendage of the stigma leafy. Pericarp crested trans- 

 versely, or rugose, or even. 



24. St. ciliatum, Juts. Leaves glabrous, cordate, entire or repand, ciliate with dis- 

 tant fringes : basilar lobes superincumbent .- petiole 2-glandular at the top ; " pericarp 

 rugose, without lateral crests : wing triangular, blunt, rounded at the base, as broad as or 

 broader than the carpid." — Cav. Diss. 9. t. 254. — Banisteria, Lam. — Hab. Jamaica (Juss.) ; 

 [Brazil !]. 



25. St. adenodon, Juss. ! Leaves glabrous above, pubescent beneath with scattered, 

 appressed hairs, cordate or subcordate, poiutleted, denticulate-repand, with the teeth glan- 

 dular : basilar sinus open (or obsolete) : petiole 2-glandular at the top ; samara . . . . — 

 Nearly related to the following. — Hab. Trinidad !, Sch. 



26. St. convolvxdifolium, Juss. ! Leaves glabrous, subcordate-ovate or cordate, point- 

 leted, repand-entire, with distant minute glands on the margin : basilar sinus short or none : 

 petiole 2-glandular at the top ; pericarp with several lateral crests : wing oblong, blunt : 

 interior margin straight, superior curved at the top, and with an obtuse appendage at the 

 back.— Cav. Diss. 9. t. 256.— Banisteria, Cav. B. dichotoma, Mey.i — Hab. Trinidad !, 

 Or. ; [Martinique, Venezuela, Guiana !, Bahia I]. 



27. St. fulgens, Juss. J Leaves glabrous above, silvery beneath with silky down, cor- 

 date-rounded, mucronulate, repand-entire : basilar sinus open .• petiole 2-glandular a little 

 below the top ; peduncles divided ; pericarp with a single lateral crest : wing semiobovate- 

 oblong, blunt : inferior margin curved-obtuse-angled, superior straight, curved at the top, 

 and with a deltoid appendage at the base. — Cav. Diss. 9. t. 253. — Banisteria, Lam. B. 

 splendens, DC. — Pairs of prominent primary leaf-veins about 3-4. — Hab. S. Vincent!, 

 Guild. ; [Venezuela !, Guiana !, Para !]. 



28. St. pub er tun, Juss. / Leaves glabrous above, glaucescent beneath with minnte 

 silky down, ovate or elliptical-oblong, pointleted, quite entire -. petiole 2-glandular at the 

 top ; pericarp even, puberulous, without lateral crests : wing rectangular-divergent, tapering 

 from the broad base to the bluntish top : inferior margin straightish, superior obtuse-angled 

 at the base, which is twice as broad as the carpid. — Banisteria fnlgens, DC. {rum Lam.), 

 Mey. Esseq. I — Pairs of stronger primary leaf-veins about 7-8. — Hab. Dominica *., Imr. ; 

 [Cuba !, Guiana !, equatorial Brazil fj. 



Sect. 2. B-EOPteris. — Appendage of the stigma compressed, truncate or uncinate. 

 Pericarp pluricostate lengthwise. 



Banisteria pauciflora, Kth., of Cuba, is a link between Baopteris and Banisteria, having 

 the parallel pericarpal keels of the former, and the 4 transformed anthers of Stigmaphyllon, 

 while in habit, inflorescence, and the capitate stigmas, it is a true Banisteria : the pedicels 

 however are articulated above the base. 



29. St. marginatum, Juss. ! Leaves membranaceous, glabrate above, glaucescent, 

 hoary with silky down beneath, oval-roundish or ovate, emarginate at both ends : petio/ar 

 glands close to the leaf, sessile ; pedicels articulated and bibracteolate below the middle ; 

 stigmas compressed-truncate ; pericarp costate : wing obovate-oblong, obtusate : inferior 



