MALPIGHIACE^E 



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Griseb. Fl. Br. W, Lid. 119; Ni< >> ,i::n in Arl. lust. Braunsb., 

 Heteropteryx, 51, ~>2 ; Urb. Si/mb. Ant. ic. 3i M J. Acer benghalense 

 A:C. Pink. Plnjt. t. 3,/. 1 ; Aim. 7. Acer scandens foliis laurinis 

 Xlottitt' Cut. 137 & HiKt. it. 26. i '.anisteria foliis ovato-oblongis 

 acuminatis Plum. PL Amer. (Ijnnn.) t. 14. B. foliis ovati-. 

 seminibus unialatis &c. Browne Hist. J<i,,i. 231 (excl. syn.). B. 

 laurifolia L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 611 (1762); Gsertn. Fni.-t. //. 167, 

 /. 116 ; Sw. Obs. Bot. 182 ; Wright Mem. 271 ; ll,-f. Jam. L 152 ; 

 Xnmll iii N. Amer. Fl. xxv. 137. B. angulosa Mill. Gur<l. D'-t. 

 ed. 8 (1768) (non L.). B. coerulea Lam. Ena/r. i. 367 (17iS">) : 

 Cav. Diss. 421, t. 243. (Fig. 77.) 



The type, Miller's specimen, is in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Fig. 77. Heteropteris laurifnlla A. Juss. 



A, Pistil and six stamens X 3. ovary cut lengthwise, showing the 



B, Median carpel of A showing the style ovule, x 3. 



somewhat different from the others ; C, 1'ruit, one samara cut to show the seed, 



nat. size. 



Dragon Withe, White Withe. 



Banks of Kio Cobre ; St. Dorothy; Sloane Herh. v. 93! Houstounl 

 Broughtonl Massonl Berterol Macfadyenl St. Mary, McNabl Hartv 

 Moneagne, Prior 1 March ! J.P. 716, Jenman ! King's House grounds, J.P. 

 1081, Hart I Constant Spring, Blue Mts., Port Antonio, Hitchcock; Pro- 

 vidence road, near Castletou, 700 ft. ; Toms Kiver, 600 ft. ; Tliomp 

 Mona mountain, Fawcctt \ Mount Mansfield, 800 ft. ; Stony Hill, 1000 ft. ; 

 near Bardowie, 1800 ft. ; Hope road ; Grove bridge ; near Lacovia ; 

 Harris \ Fl. Jam. 5740, 5819, 5820, 6738, 8010, 8519, 8507, 0850, 11,773.- 

 Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Cruz, Central America. 



Leaves elliptical, oblong, or lanceolate, apex obtuse or acute, often 

 subacuminate, base obtuse or wedge-shaped, sometimes rounded, veins 

 -conspicuously reticulate, prominent on both sides. Panicl's to 2'5 dm. 1. ; 

 reddish pubescent. Bracts and bracteoles more or less per^i-u-nt, ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, 3-5 mm. 1. Steals about 4 mm. 1., oblong, ivvolutc at 

 upex, buff-pubescent, with 8 glands. Petals yellow, blade roundish to 

 elliptical, sometimes hastate at base, 3-4 mm. 1. ; claw 2-3 (4) inni. 1. 

 Samara' 2 '5-4 cm. 1. 



-. H. reticulata N'n'ilrnzn in Arb. J*/. nrtiunl>., 

 ~>\ ( \ 003) ; leaves leathery, glabrous, without glands, 10-16 cm. 1. ; 

 panicles terminal and axillary; branches few, spreading more <>r 

 less at right angles, racemose ; fruit : upper margin somewhat 



