Aecridocarpus. | MALPIGHIACE, (Sond.) : 231 
OrDER XXV. MALPIGHIACEZ, Juss. 
(By W. SonpeEr.) 
(Juss. Gen. 252., DC. Prod. 1. p. 577., Endl. Gen. cexxviii. Lindl. 
Veg. Kingd. No. exxxix.) 
Flowers perfect, regular. Calyx 5-parted, equal, persistent, mostly 
with conspicuous glands at the base of one or more of the segments 
externally. Petals 5, hypogynous, clawed, spreading ; the lamina con- 
cave and often jagged, imbricate in estivation. Stamens twice as many 
as the petals, those opposite the petals sometimes abortive or wanting ; 
filaments connate at base ; anthers erect or incumbent, introrse, longi- 
tudinally slitting. Ovary free, 3-2-celled ; ovules solitary, pendulous ; 
styles 3, distinct or confluent ; stigmata simple. Fruit various, either 
fleshy, or woody and 1-3-winged, the carpels cohering or separate ; 
seeds exalbuminous ; embryo commonly conduplicate. 
Trees or shrubs, often climbers ; with opposite, rarely alternate, petiolate, simple, 
penninerved, very entire or rarely toothed or lobed, often stipulate leaves. Pubes- 
cence various, often copious, silky and shining. Flowers in corymbs or racemes, 
terminal or lateral: petals red or yellow, rarely white or blue. 
A considerable Order, chiefly tropical ; about 14 of the species are natives of the 
Old World, the rest American and chiefly from the Southern Continent. Only 4 
species have yet been found in South Africa. 
TABLE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GENERA. 
ee Acridocarpus.— Petals sub-entire. Ovary 3-lobed. Fruits with dorsal wing. 
‘ II. Triaspis.— Petals fringed. Ovary 6-winged. Fruits with a marginal wing. 
I, ACRIDOCARPUS, Guill. & Per. 
a Calyx 5-parted. Petals 5, longer than the calyx, clawed, sub-entire 
s unequal, glabrous, Stamens 10, fertile ; filaments short ; anthers 
: large, cordato-lanceolate. Carpels 3, united in a sharply 3-lobed ovary; 
styles 2-3, elongate, divergent, flattened, acute. Nuts (samare) 2-3, 
confluent at base, each above expanded into a straight or oblique ver- 
tical wing, thickened along its upper margin. A. de Juss. Mon. p. 228. 
Endl. Gen. No. 5576. . 
African trees or shrubs, sometimes climbers. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire, 
glabrous or silky, exstipulate. Racemes terminal and lateral ; flowers yellow. 
Name axpis, alocust, and xapros, fruit, — | ; 
a ie * Flowers racemose. 
1. A Natalitius (Juss. 1. c. p.232); branches glabrous, the younger 
tomentose ; leaves a a Slog obovate, obtuse, glabrous, leathery ; 
racemes terminal, simple, elongate, the rachis and pedicels rusty-tomen- 
tose ; bracteoles subulate, without glands ; ovary distylous; wings of — 
the fruit broad, obliquely obovate, glabrescent, veiny with nerves. 
No, 261. pee sagen pen 
. Has. ee Se Krauss, Gueinzius, &c. Oct. (Herb. Sond., 
‘Hook., Ta. .) : : wit zo = Nahe 
Hare. Thes. Cap. t. 19. Banisteria Kraussiana, Hochst. in Pl. Krauss. = = ae 
