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Malpighia Glabra. Smooth-Leaved 

 Barbadoes-Cherry. 



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Gfo/jr #W Order, 

 Decandria Trigynia, 



Generic Characleu 



Cal. 5-phyllus, foliolis quibufdam extus bafi glandulofi*. 

 Petala 5, fubrotunda unguiculata. Filament a bafi cohaerentia, 

 Drupa l-locularis tripyrena, nucibus i-fpermis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms, 



MALPIGHIA glabra; foliis ovatis integcrrimis glabris. 



Hort. Cliff. 169. mild. Sp. PI. 2. p. 731. 



Mill. Icon. t. 181. /. 2. G«W2». Dtjf. 8. />, 



406. /, 234. /. 1.* Hort, Kew. 2. p. 103. 



Mzr/. M///. Di8. 1. 

 MALPIGHIA fruticofa ere&a, foliis nitidis ovatis acuminatis 



floribus umbellatis, ramulis gracilibus. Brown 



Jam. 230. 

 CERASUS jamaicenfis, fructu tetrapyreno. Comm, Hort. 1. 



p. 145. /. 75. 

 ARBOR baccifera, folio fubrotundo, fru£tu cerafino fulcato 



rubro polypyreno : ofliculis cannulatis. Sloan 

 . Hiji. 2. p, 106. /. 207. f % 2. &y. Hift. 3. 



£)^</. 74. 



A fhrub, feldom rifing above fix or [even feet in the 

 Weft-Indies, according to Brown, though Miller fays 

 there are forae trees upwards often feet high in England. 



