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pointleted, ciliate-denticulate, with scattered hairs above and on the nerves beneath : petiole 



glandular-hairy, as long as the leaf; peduncles long, scapiform, glandular-hairy, especially 



on the branches of the corymbiform cyme ; 2 capsule-wings deltoid, the third twice as long, 



I obtusate-oblong. — Rhizoma creeping, scaly : stipular scales oblong, cuspidate ; leaves 6"-4" 



j long, 4"-3" broad ; peduncles 1' long : dichotomous branches 3-4, few-flowered : bracts 



oblong or elliptical, ciliate, cuspidate ; 2 larger $ sepals ovate, blunt, 4'" long, 2 interior 



j oblong-lanceolate, half as long; stamens many, free: anthers shortly obovate-oblong, as 



) long as the filament, bluntly produced beyond the cells ; $ sepals 5, oval, 3"' long : style 



I 3-partite : stigmas bifid, with short, contiguous, papillose bands ; capsule rounded at the 



I base : placentas thinly bilamellate : wings 4'" broad, two 3"'-4"' long, the third straightish 



i on the upper margin, 6"'-9'" long. — Hab. Trinidad !, Lockh., Cr., in moist ravines, Maraval. 



10. B. Purdieana, A. DC. " Stemless, leaves obliquely cordate-ovate, pointed, irre- 

 gularly .crenate, with scattered hairs above and hairy on the nerves beneath ; peduncles 

 scapiform, slender, few-flowered ; capsule blunt at the base : larger wing long, ovate." — 

 The diagnosis is not sufficient to distinguish this from the preceding : but my species is 



i very peculiar by the dense glandular covering of the pedicels, not mentioned, and therefore 

 probably not existing in A. DCs plant.— Hab. Jamaica {A. DC). 



Sect. 2. Donaldia. — Sepals $ 2, ? 5. Styles and capsules of Begoniastrum. — Shrubs ; 

 leaves short-petioled : stipules and bracts persistent. 



11. B. ulmifolia, W. Stem erect, angular, with scattered hairs ; leaves oblong, pointed, 



Sect. 3. Gieeoudia. — Sepals in both sexes 2. Stigmas 3, shortly bifid, with a semilunar, 

 contiguous, papillose band. Capsule unequally 3-winged : placentas bilamellate. — 

 Suffrutescent, fleshy herbs ; leaves large, long-petioled. 



12. B. macrophylla, Bryand. " Stem short : stipules large, deltoid ; leaves very 

 large, unequally and deeply cordate, roundish, sinuate-dentate, ciliate, hairy on the nerves 

 beneath : petiole terete, scaly ; cymes large, long-peduncled ; capsule-wings obtusate-round- 

 ish, the third much larger." — " Leaves above 1', stipules 1 $", sepals 3"'-4'" diam."— Hab. 

 Jamaica (Sw.), in the mountains ; [French islands]. 



Sect. 4. Wageneria.— Sepals of Begoniastrum. Stigmas 3, bipartite, tioisted, wholly 

 papillose. Capsule-wing of the third cell spreading, the two others reduced: placentas 

 entire. — Suffrutescent, often scandent herbs ; cymes large, divaricate. 



13. B. scandens, &;. Scandent, radicant, glabrous ; leaves ovate or ovate-roundish, 

 subequal, slightly emarginate at the base, irregularly dentate; cymes peduncled, effuse; 

 third capsule-wing ovate-oblong, blunt, spreading, the two others shortly ascending-deltoid, 

 bluntish.— Aubl. t. 349: bad. — B. glabra, Aubt'.— l i'-& long; leaves 3"-6" long; sepals 

 white, larger in $ , ovate, 2'" long ; third capsule- wing 8"' long, and as broad, the two others 

 2"' broad above. — Hab. Jamaica !, all coll., on trees and in ravines, with the large cymes 

 pendulous; Dominica!, Imr. ; Trinidad!, Cr.; [Guiana, equat. Brazil, Pern]. 



LXXXVIII. ARALIACE.E. 



Calyx-limb reduced. Stamens epigynous, mostly definite. Ovary compound : cells with 

 a single, pendulous ovule : styles distinct or combined, usually surrounded at the base by an 

 epigynous disc. Pericarp fleshy, with cartilaginous pyrense. Embryo small, in the top of 

 the endosperm!— Leaves sheathing at the base of the petiole ; flowers mostly umbellate. 



An aromatic or balsamic principle is extracted, chiefly from the berries. 



1. HEDERA, L. 



Calyx-limb produced beyond the ovary. FOaU 5, valrate Sto««w as many. Disc 

 obsolete. StyL combined to the top. Berry 5-p.vrenous.-The West Indmn spree, arc 



