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Malpighia Volubilis. Twining 

 Barbadoes-Cherry. 



Clqfs and Order, 

 Decandria T^igynia. 



Generic Charafier. 



Col. 5-phyllus petiolis quibufdam extus bafi glandulofis, 

 Petala 5, fubrotunda unguiculata. Filamenta bafi cohasrentia, 

 Drupa i-locularis tripyrena, nucibus l-fperrais. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms, 



MALPIGHIA volubilis ; ramis volubilibus, foliis ovalibus 

 acuminatis lucidis, raccrais corymbofis ter> 

 minalibus. 



Descr. Stem fhrubby ; branches twining; the bark, ex- 

 cept of the young (hoots, covered with warty excrefcences and 

 fcme adprefled briftles hardly vifible to the naked eye. 

 Leaves oval-acuminate, perfectly fmooth and mining, hanging 

 down from the weaknefs of the footftalk which is flauifh and 

 befet with adprefled briftles. Flowers chiefly terminal, on 

 corymbous racemes from the axil of the leaves, and much 

 ftorter than thefe, yellow, of very fhort duration. Calyx 

 perfiftent, divided to the bottom into five ovate flefhy feg- 

 ments, four of which are furnifhed each with two oval 

 gibbous green glands nearly as long as the calyx. Petals five : 

 claws long and (lender : laminae roundifh, jagged at the edges, 

 fomewhat fagittate at the bafe. Stamens ten, filaments ereft, 

 united at the bafe, longer than ftyles, inferted into the re- 

 ceptacle at the bafe of the germen, which is fmall, roundifh, 

 pointed, hairy, terminated in three erect ftyles with round 

 ft'gmas. 



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