282 MALPIGHIACEE (Sond.) | Triaspis. 
Branches erect, terete. Leaves mostly alternate, some nearly opposite, 3~5 inches 
long, 1~2 inches wide, the upper smaller, shining on the upper surface, paler beneath ; 
the petiole 3-4 lines long, with two glands at its summit.Racemes 6 inches long, or 
longer, pyramidal ; lower pedicels uncial, spreading. Calyx lobes obtuse, 1 line long. 
Petals 5—6 lines long, unequal. Styles as long as the petals. Wings of the fruit an 
inch long, 7-8 lines wide, upturned. 
** Flowers umbellate. (Sp. 2~3.) 
2. A. Galphimizfolius (Juss. l.c. p. 237); branches tomentose, at 
es length glabrous ; leaves opposite, short, ovate, mucronate, glaucous be- 
< low and sparingly piliferous ; petiole bi-glandular below the summit ; 
| umbels four-flowered, terminating the branches and ramuli; ovary and 
fruit tristylous. A. pruriens, 8. levigatus, Sond. in Linn. 23. p. 22. 
Has. Algoa Bay (quere, Delagoa Bay‘), Forbes in Hb. Lindl. Port Natal, Guein- 
zius. (Herb. Sond.) 
Branches voluble ; branchlets opposite, divaricate. Leaves 9-18 lines long, 4-7 
lines wide, green above. Petiole 2-4 lines long. Umbels 3-5-flowered ; the pedun- 
cles at base furnished with minute, subulate bracts, somewhat silky, 4-6 lines long, 
| bibracteate at the summit, and articulated with the thickened, 2 line long pedicels. 
se Calyx lobes oblong, obtuse, 2 lines long, downy externally. Petals shortly clawed, 
me obovate or sub-orbicular, 4-5 lines long, veiny. Styles long, unequal. Ovaries 3, 
hairy. Samarz (fide Juss.) 3, on an enlarged, pyramidal receptacle, oblong, the 
sides rufo-sericeous, above and outwards produced into a puberulent wing, 5 lines 
long and 2} wide. Perhaps a mere variety of the next species ? 
3. A. pruriens (Juss. 1. c. p. 238); branches whitish, tomentose; leaves 
opposite, short, ovate, mucronulate, silvery and silky on the lower side ; 
petioles bi-glandular above the middle; umbels 3~-5-flowered, termi- 
nating the branches and ramuli; ovary and fruit tristylous. Banis- 
teria prurvens, FE. Mey.! in Hb. Drege. 
Has. Woods near Port Natal, common, Drege, Gueinzius, &c. Macallisberg, 
Zeyher. (Herb. Sond., Hook., T.C.D.) 
Branches voluble. Leaves 1-11 inches long, }~1 inch wide, obtuse or sub-retuse, 
* mucronate, the younger appressedly pubescent above, older glabrate, all silky tomen- 
tose on the under side. Petiole tomentose, 3-6 lines long. Umbels mostly ternate; 
peduncles silky, 1-1} lines long, bibracteolate at the apex and articulated to the 2-3 
Time long pedicels. Calyx and petals as in the preceding. Styles long, unequal. 
Ovaries 3, hairy. Samarz 3, silky pubescent, the wings appressedly downy, 5 lines 
long, 24 lines wide, twice as long as the styles. 
Il, TRIASPIS, Burch. 
Calyx short, 5-parted, without glands. Petals longer than the calyx, 
= clawed, fringed. Stamens 10, fertile, unequal, sonia at base and ad- 
to the stipe of the ovary. Carpels 3, expanded into a wing at each 
wis united into a 3-lobed, 6-winged, shortly stipitate ovary. Styles 3, 
ae ‘the gate, flat, acute. Samare 3, or fewer, winged at the 
pape a a Wing shield-like, sometimes interrupted at the apex, com- 
pred dorsally crested in the middle. Juss, I. c. p. 250. Endl. Gen. 
Shrubs, often climbin igs SOA ba Geri as . 
. heli ne? wound in tropical, : as in Southern Africa, Leaves 
- opposite or sub-alternate, entire, glabrous late. Flowers in axillary - 
ae fr m Tpis, three, and agms, 
