Tas. 66238. 
STIGMAPHYLLON LITTORALE. 
Native of South Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. MatriaH1acEm.—Tribe BANISTERIER. 
Genus StramaPHYLLON, A. Juss.; (Benth. et Hook. J: Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 257.) 
STIGMAPHYLLON Jittorale; ramis petiolis foliis subtus et inflorescentia pubescenti- 
bus v. tomentosis, foliis orbicularibus ovatis v. late oblongis basi rotundatis v. 
cordatis acutis obtusis apiculatisve integerrimis v. sinuatis, petiolo elongato 
apice 2-glanduloso, pedunculis axillaribus petiolo longioribus, corymbis simpli- 
cibus v, compositis multifloris, pedicellis floriferis decurvis demum erectis, 
sepalis ovatis obtusis glandulis magnis, petalis sepalis multo majoribus orbicu- 
laribus unguiculatis erosis unguibus sepala superantibus, staminibus calycem 
vix superantibus valde dissimilibus, 5 ceteris multo minoribus imperfectis, 
connectivo crasso granulato, ovario trilobo, stylis crassiusculis apice in appen- 
dicem foliaceam dilatatis. 
S. littorale, A. Juss. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. vol. iii. p. 55; Walp. Rep. 
vol. v. p. 212; Griseb. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Malpigh. p. 40. 
Banisteria bonariensis, Hook. et Arn. in Hook. Bot. Mise. vol. iii. p. 157. 
The plants of the Natural Order Malpighiacee are not 
often seen in cultivation, though many of them are hand- 
some, and those of the genus Stigmaphyllon are especially 
adapted for clothing pillars, &c., in hothouses, from their 
copious very persistent foliage, which is singularly free 
from insects (a peculiarity probably due to the disposition 
of the forked hairs of their surfaces), and abundant golden 
blossoms. The only species of the genus hitherto figured 
in this work is 8. heterophyllum (Tab. 4014), also a native 
of South Brazil, which has smaller opposite leaves and 
much shorter peduncles. 
S. littorale is a native of South Brazil, Uraguay, Buenos 
Ayres, and Monte Video, growing on river banks, where it 
produces large tuberous roots of an astringent nature. It 
has been in cultivation in the Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh 
and Kew, and flowers in the autumn profusely. 
Descr. A tall leafy climber; branches, leaves beneath 
MAY Ist, 1882. 
