MALPIGHIACEA. I, MALPIGHIA. 
8. p. 409. t. 236. f.1. Lodd. bot. cab. 321. M. linearis, Jacq. 
135. Flowers pale-purple or pink. Fruit small, oval, furrowed, 
when ripe of a dark-purple colour. 
Narrow-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1737. 
Shrub 7 feet. 
7 M. Aegurrét1a (Lin. spec. 
611.) branches smooth; leaves 
lanceolate, with spiny teeth, beset 
with decumbent, stinging bristles 
beneath ; peduncles axillary, soli- 
tary or twin, 2-flowered. h.S. 
Native of South America and the 
West Indies. Plum. ed. Burm. t. 
168.f.1. Cav. diss. 8. p. 409. t. 
236. f. 2. M. illicifolium, Mill. 
dict. no. 8. Flowers pale-blush 
or pink. Fruit of a dark-purple 
colour when ripe (f. 197.). 
Holly-leaved BarbadoesCherry. 
FI. Aug. Sept. Clt. 1759. Shrub 
7 feet. 
8 M. macropny'tia (Willd. 
enum. suppl. p. 37.) leaves large, 
oval, quite entire, beset with silky hairs above, and with sting- 
FIG, 107. 
ing, decumbent bristles beneath; umbels of flowers lateral, ses- - 
sile. h. S, Native of Brazil. 
red or pink. 
Long-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1820. 
ree 14 feet, . 
Col. hort. rip. t. 11. Flowers 
Secr. Il, Apy're (from azupoc, apyros, free from fire; in 
allusion to the leaves being without stinging bristles). D. C. 
prod. 1, p- 578. Leaves smooth or clothed with hairs, which 
ate not stinging, nor fixed by their centre. . 
* Leaves smooth. 
9 M. coccr'rera (Lin. ed. Reich. 2. p. 371.) leaves obovate 
or roundish, with spiny teeth, smooth, shining ; peduncles axil- 
ry, solitary, furnished with two scales at their middle. h.S. 
ative of South America. A small bushy shrub, thickly beset 
= box-like leaves. Flowers'pale-blush or pink. Fruit small, co- 
a furrowed, of a purple colour when ripe. Ker. bot. reg. 568. 
„ 2erry-bearing Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1733, 
hrub 2 feet, 
onl GLA‘BRA (Lin. spec. 609.) leaves ovate, quite entire, 
of Se 3 Shining ; peduncles axillary, umbellate. , 
181 te America, particularly in the West Indies. Mill. ill. t. 
rs T Cav. diss. t. 234. f. 1.—Sloan. jam. 2. p. 106. t. 207. 
ands owers rose-coloured or bright purple. Fruit round, red, 
ion eo about the size and shape of a cherry, having one or 
Sect: prtows on the outside, and containing within a reddish, 
ae. Sh, not unpleasant, copious, juicy pulp, and 3 or 4 trian- 
case | na so fitted together as to appear one, but this is the 
dian nes species. This tree-is cultivated in all the West 
meri slands, and in many parts of the main land of South 
erior ta for its fruit, which is esteemed there, but is much in- 
a a our cherries, It is called in the British West Indies 
Smo he Cherry.—Sims, bot. mag. 813. . 
Cit. 1 oth-leaved or True Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. March, Sept. 
1757. Tree 16 feet. 
late, Sa BIFLÒRA (Poir. dict. 4, p. 326.) leaves ovate, lanceo- 
ive of se smooth ; peduncles axillary, 2-flowered. Rh. S, Na- 
K ios ep America in woods. M. punicifolia, Cav. diss. 8. 
t. 234. f.2. Leaves entire. Flowers pale-red. 
Two-flome 
Shrub f aea Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1810. 
k.S. Native” 
635 
12 M. ruxiciròLIa (Lin. spec. 609.) leaves ovate, quite en- 
tire, smooth ; peduncles axillary, 1-flowered. h. S. Native 
of South America, particularly of the West Indies.—Plum. ed. 
Burm. t. 166. f. 2.—Pluck. phyt. t. 57. f. 7. Flowers rose- 
coloured. Fruit about the size and shape of a cherry, very suc- 
culent, and of a pleasant, rather acid taste. This shrub has 
_ much the appearance of the pomegranate. 
Pomegranate-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 
1690. Shrub 8 feet. 
13 M. xřrpa (Mill. dict. no. 5. Lin. spec. 609.) leaves lan- 
ceolate, acute, quite entire, smooth, shining; peduncles umbel- 
lately-racemose, axillary and terminal. h.S. Native of South 
America, particularly about Carthagena, and in the West Indies. 
A beautiful shrub, with pink flowers. 
Shining-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. March, July. Clt. 
1733. Shrub 10 feet. 
14 M. Berrerta'na (Spreng. syst. 2. p. $83.) leaves obovate, 
somewhat emarginate, membranaceous, opaque, smooth; pe- 
duncles axillary, aggregate, usually 1-flowered. h. S. Native 
of Guadaloupe. Flowers rose-coloured ? 
Bertero’s Barbadoes Cherry. Shrub 10 feet. 
15 M. emareorna'tA (Moc. et Sesse, fl. mex. icon. ined. D. C. 
prod. 1. p. 578.) leaves ovate, obtuse, wavy, emarginate at the 
apex, smooth; peduncles axillary, divided to the base into 4 or 
5 umbellate pedicels. h. S. Native of Mexico. Flowers 
red or pale-pink ? 
Emarginate-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. Shrub 8 feet ? 
** Leaves pubescent or downy. 
y 
16 M. Facrnea (Swartz, fl. ind. occid. 2. p. 850.) leaves 
oblong-ovate, quite entire, silky and shining beneath ; peduncles 
axillary, 3-parted, umbellate. h.S. Native of the Caribbee 
Islands. Flowers yellow. Fruit unknown. 
Beach-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1820. 
Shrub 10 feet ? 
17 M. marirou1a (Nees et Mart. in nov. act. bonn. 12. p. 
21.) tomentose; leaves cordate, ovate, acute, quite entire, 
shining above, but villously tomentose beneath, furnished with 
2 glands at the base; flowers in 3-parted umbels, axillary. k. 
S. Native of Brazil about Tamburil. Petals red and white, 
spotted, ciliated. 
Apple-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. Shrub 6 to 8 feet. 
18 M. saccnartna; leaves large, obovate, tapering to the 
base, pale beneath, on long footstalks ; pedicels axillary, solitary, 
short, and thick. h. S. Native of Sierra Leone. The fruit of 
this tree is sold in great quantities in the market of Freetown, 
during the months of February and March, under the name of 
sugar-plum ; they are about the size of the bullace-plum, round, 
rough on the outside, with scattered warts, of a greyish colour, 
and half-filled by 3 or 4 oval-flatted seeds, which are so fitted 
together as to appear one ; surrounded by a very sweet agreeable 
pulp. It is a beautiful and lofty tree, sometimes quite clear of 
branches to the height of 60 feet, where it terminates in a fine head. 
Sierra Leone Sugar-plum. FI. Dec, Jan. Tree 80 feet. 
19 M. xca'xa (Mill. dict. no. 3.) leaves lanceolate, hoary 
beneath; peduncles axillary, umbellate. h. S. Native of 
Flowers 
Campechy. M. Campechiénsis, Poir. dict. 4. p. 333. 
rose-coloured. M. canéscens, Ait. hort. kew. ed, 1. vol. 2. 
p. 105? 
Hoary-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. Clt. 1742. Tree 18 feet, 
+ Doubtful species, with yellow flowers. 
20 M. GRANDIFÒLIA (Jacq. amer. p. 137.) leaves lanceolate- 
oblong, entire ; peduncles axillary, in racemose corymbs. h.S. 
Native of Martinique in woods. Leaves a foot long. Flowers 
yellow. This is probably a species of Bunchosia, 
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