MALPIGHIACE.E 229 



Peckham Woods, Upper Clarendon, 2500 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 11,189. 



Slender shrub, 12 ft. high. Sepals oblong, about 3 mm. 1. ; glands G, 

 about 2 mm. 1. Petals rose-coloured. Styles, 2 larger than the third. 

 Drupes not known. 



2. Margin of leaves sinuate-dentate, with the teeth ending 

 in spiny bristles. 



8. M. eoeeigera L. Sp. PI. 436 (1753); Jacq. Ic. PL Ear. t. 



470 ; Griscb. Joe. cit. ; Niedenzu torn. cit. 19; Small tn,,i. cit. 1GO. 

 M. huniilis ilicis cocci-glandi ferse foliis Plum. Gen. 46, PL 

 Anter. (Burm.) t. 168, /. 2 & Ic. ined. it. 128. M. coccigrya 

 L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 611 (1762). M. coccifera Car. Diss. 408, t. 235, 

 /. 2 (1789); Bot. Keg. t. 568. 



Wright \ Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, Dominica, Martinique, St. 

 Lucea, St. Vincent. 



Shrub about 3 ft. high. Leaves small, -7-2 cm. L, roundish or 

 roundish-elliptical, teeth large, coarse, spines 1-5-2 mm. 1., forming a 

 continuation of the tooth, upper surface shining, with nerves and veins 

 prominent, lower surface with nerves and veins scarcely visible, sessile or 

 subsessile, margin recurved. Flowers solitary, or 2 on a short peduncle, 

 pedicels jointed, 1-5-2 cm. 1. Sepals oblong or ovate-oblong, about 

 3 mm. 1. ; glands 6, more than half as long. Petals pink, to about 1 cm. 1. 

 Drupe somewhat globular, 9 or 10 mm. in diam., red. 



3. BUNCHOSIA L. C. Rich, ex Juss. 



Leaves usually with 2 glands on the lower surface a little 

 above the base ; stipules minute, sometimes united into one. 

 Inflorescence an axillary raceme. Calyx persistent, with 8 to 10 

 sessile glands (in Jamaican species), about half as long as the 

 calyx. Petals yellows Filaments glabrous, united at the base. 

 Ovary 2-3-celled ; styles united, with a triangular stigma. 

 Drupe, the flesh drying up, releasing the pyrenes ; pyrenes 2-3 

 (rarely 1), without crests. 



Species 32, natives of the West Indies and tropical conti- 

 nental America. 



Leaves narrowly elliptical, to 10 crn. 1. 



Leaves seldom shortly acuminate, to 7'5 cm. 1. 

 Racemes usually as long as, or longer than the 



leaves 1. U. Swartziana. 



Leaves generally shortly acuminate, to 10 cm.- 1. 

 Racemes usually somewhat shorter than the 



leaves 2. B. media. 



Leaves broadly elliptical, to 16 cm. 1 3. B.jamaicensis. 



1. B. Swartziana Griseb. FL Br. W. Ind. 115 (1S59) ; leaves 

 naiT-> vly elliptical to elliptical, occasionally shortly acuminate-, 

 tapering to the base, 3-7*5 cm. 1. ; racemes usually as long as, 



