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ac ute or acuminate (rarely obtuse), subsessile, 3-8 cm. 1. ; flowers 

 in 8-3-flowered corymbs or umbels ; common peduncle and 

 pedicels somewhat equal in length, 5-15 mm. 1. ; petals one 

 lar -or than the rest, '2 smaller than the intermediate ; drupe to 

 1 .in cliarn., pyrenes, " outline oblong- or ovate-elliptical, 



3 -crested ; spaces between the crests with transverse anastomosing 

 ri dges ; commissural ridge longer than the crests, projecting 

 beyond them at base. Mill. Gard. Did. ed. 8 & L . t. 181, /". 2; 

 Cav. Diss. 406, t. 234, /. 1; Bot. Mag. t. 813; Mrf. Jam. /.*146; 



A, Branch with leaves ami flowers x i. 



K. Flower x 3. 



i. . I'lower with calyx and corolla removed, 



cut lengthwise X 5. 

 D. Diagram of Mower. 



(D, E, F after Jussieu.) 



Fig. 75. Malpi'jhia glabra L. 



E, Fruit cut lengthwise, showing seed and 



emliryo X 2. 



F, Fruit cut across X 2. 

 U, Pyrene X 2. 



A. J//XX. ; Arrh. J///X. P.ir. Hi. 2G2 ; Grisrb. Fl. P,r. W. Lul. 116; 

 Ni> ' -nzii iii Iin1. L><'t. Lijc. Brutish., M<il]>iifli!<i, ."i ; .s'/,/a// / u 

 N. Aui'-r. F/. xxv. l">"i. M. fruticosa erecta foliis nitidis &r. 

 JiroH-Hc 7//W. .Ia,,i. 230. M. nitida Mill. Um-,1. D/',i. C <1 8 (1768) 

 (n<>n L.). Arbor baccifera folio subrot undo ,V'c. S/it,n- ('at. 172 

 A: U',*t. it. lUrt, t. -207, f. '2. (Fig. 75.) A specimen from Hort. 

 Cliff, in Herb. Mus. Brit., one also in Herb. Linn, named by 

 Linnaeus. 



The description of the pyrenes is taken from them when thoroughly 

 cleaned from the adhering flesh. 



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