Stigmaphyllon MALPIGHIACEJ-: 



Mns. Par. Hi. 381. S. lingulatum S.naU loc. cit. (1910). Acer 

 ndens minus, apocyni facie, folio subrotundo ,SA.>"//'' Cut. 138 

 .v Hi .^t. it. -7, t. 1G7, /. -. Banisteria foliis orbiculatis &c. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. -31. Jlanisteria fulgens L. ,S^. PL 4-7 (1753) 

 (IK tii S. fulgens A. JW*. IMO). B. emarginata Cnv. Bit*. 425, 

 t. L'49 (1790). Triopteris lingulatum Pn/'r. in Lam. Enci/c. viii. 

 104 (1808). B. periplocsefolia DC. Prodr. i. 589 ilM'4). 

 B. splendens Mc-f. Jam. i. 152 (1837) (non DC.). (Fig. 79.) 

 Specimen from Hurt. Cliff, in Herb. Mus. Brit., also one from 

 Browne in Herb. Linn, named by Linnaeus Banisteria fulgens. 



Sloane Herb. v. 94, 95, 96 ! Houstounl Browne ! Wright \ Shakspearl 

 Macfadyen ! Distin ! St. Mary, McXab ! Purdie ! TFiZsou ! Prior ! Marcli ! 

 Hope Grounds, J.P. 1009 ; "King's House grounds, J.P. 1309; JJ/orm ! 

 Lucea, Hitchcock; Gordon Town, 1100 ft.; sea-coast near Falmouth ; 

 Papine 800 ft. ; Spanish Town road, 100 ft. ; Fort Henderson ; Green 

 Island, Fish river ; Montego Bay ; near Old Harbour Bay ; Harris ! Fl. 

 Jam. 5706, 7236, 8368, 85^4, 9232, 10,148, 10,258, 10,350, 11,947. West 

 Indies from Cuba to St. Lucia. 



Leaves 1-14 cm. 1., -5-9 cm. br. Peduncles and pedicels pubescent 

 with adpressed hairs or glabrescent. Sei^als ovate or roundish ovate, 

 exceeding the glands by 2-3 mm. ; glands elliptical or roundish ovate, 

 1-5-2 mm. 1. Petals 8-12 mm. in diam. ; claw 2-4 mm. 1. Samara : 

 pericarp ribbed lengthwise and somewhat reticulately, 4-6 mm. 1. ; wing 

 obliquely obovate-oblong, 16-20 mm. 1., 6-9 mm. br. ; appendage at base 

 of wing triangular, rounded, or somewhat 4- sided, 2-3 mm. 1. 



Intermediate forms between S. cmarginatum and S. periplocxfolium 

 occur in Jamaica, as Xiedenzu has pointed out ; we think that these forms, 

 and those occurring in the other islands, which have been known as 

 S. periplocsefolium, should all be regarded as one species. 



The Hort. Cliff, specimen, and one collected by Distin in Jamaica in 

 Herb. Kew., are considered by A. Jussieu to belong to his species S. diver- 

 sifolium, but we do not think that these specimens can be separated from 

 S. emarginatum. 



We have seen in Herb. Smith at the Linnean Society the leaf which 

 Cavanilles sent for comparison with the specimen named Banisteria 

 fulgens by Linnseus (see Cav. Diss. 427), and as Smith pointed out it is 

 different. It is unfortunate that Smith's answ r er was delayed so long that 

 Cavanilles' plate was engraved with the name B. fitlg<_ns, and Cavauillcs 

 felt himself compelled to put the name which Lamarck had given in error 

 into circulation. Jussieu followed Cavanilles, and in transferring the 

 species to Stigmaphyllon, called it S. fulgent. As this name has been 

 so long in use, another S. fulgens cannot now displace it. 



2. S. puberum A. J.--x. /// Ann. >'<-. X<it. t v<V. L'. xiit. 2 

 (1840) A: ArrJi. J///x. Pm\ Hi. 376; leaves ovate-elliptical, usually 

 long acuminate, lase subcnrdati* or mund'd <>r obtuse, mem- 

 branous, glabrous above, silky pube-rcnt beneath : anterior >ivle 

 longer than the posterior, apex growing out into an expansion 

 -eparated from the stigma l>y a short stalk, irregularly 4-sided : 

 apex of the posterior styles growing into a falcate-acute expan- 

 sionj <i'ri*eh. Inc. fit.; Xieden/.u <>}>. cit. j,f. L', '2 '2 ; l'rl>. >'///////. 

 Ant. iv. 331 ; Small t<n,i. fit. 144. I'.anisieria pubera L. ('. /,'/(//. 

 in Act. Sf. Hint. Xnt. Par. i. 109 (179U). 



