262 BOTANIQUE. PLANTES VASCULAIRES. 



mate ci'isaeformi. Ovara 3 introrsum nter se coalita, 

 dorso compresso-gbljosa. Samanc 3 , aut abortu paucores, 

 pice in alam expansae, margine postico-inferiori crassio- 

 rem, lateribns convexce, Isevesque, rarissime cristatae. 



Frtices americani, interdum scandentes. Folia oppo- 

 sita integerrima, glabra vel piibentia, pube interdum me- 

 tallicum renitente , subtus vulgo glandulifera, breviter pe- 

 tiolata : slipula) inconspicuE. Inflorescentiae aspectu variae , 

 in panculas, corynibosve terminales, aut ad summa folia 

 axillares, ex umbellulis racemulisve conflatos, foliorum su- 

 premo rum bracteseformium abbreviatione saepius compo- 

 sitae : pedunculi breves, cum pedicellis vix longioribus 

 articulati, ipsis lapsis persistentes basi bracteati, pice vel 

 infra apicem opposite bibracteolati, rarissime nulli. Flores 

 parvi, lutei, rarius rosei vel albi (cserulescentes in nica 

 specie dicuntur). 



HETEROPTERYS LAURIFOLIA. 



Heteropteij s laiuifolia, Ad. de Juss., Malpigh. 

 Banisteria laurifolia, L., Sp., 611. Swartz, Ob., 182. 

 DC, Prodr., I, p. 589. 



H. foliis obovalibus aut ellipticis, obtusis aut sepius acumina- 

 tis, coriaceiS; glabris, reticulato-venosis, racemis paniculatis axil- 

 laribus , ferrugineo-tomentosis, samaris basi ferrugineo-subto- 

 men tesis. 



Crescit in pluribus iusulae Cubse parlibus. 



BANISTERIA , Jd. de Juss., Fl. Br. 



Banisterice sp., Kunth, DC. 



Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis 4 (rarissime mnibus) basi bi- 

 glandulosis, intei^dum eglandulosus. Ptala longiora, un- 

 guiculata, limbo fimbriato dentatove glabro vel pubente, 

 inaequalia. Stamina 10, omnia fertilia, inaequalia (calycinis 



