Mascagnia 



MALPIOHIAC'EJ-: 



241 



Wrlcjld\ Dint in \ Ginning ! Great Valley, Manchester, PttnZie ! Glasgow 

 near Troy, 1400 ft. ; Pepper, St. Elizabeth, i>50 ft. ; Spur Tree Hill, 2000 ft. ; 

 Harris! Fl. Jain. 9487, 9862, 98G5. 



Stems to 20 ft. 1. Leaves ovate, 6-13 cm. 1. Seiwls ovate, oblong, or 

 roundish, 3-4 mrn. 1.; glands 1-2 mm. 1. PC fa Is yellow, spreading: limb 



B 



D 



Fig. 82. Mascagnia Hireea Fawc. & Eendle. 



A, Stamens and pistil X 4. 



B, Carpel with ovary cut lengthwise X 6. 



C, Fruit X I. 1 ,. 



D, Embryo (after A. de .Tussieu) 



roundish, 4 similar with entire margin and base retuse or somewhat 

 toothed, the fifth with a fringe (1-2 mrn. 1.) all round, 7-11 mm. 1. ; claw 

 3 mm. 1. Stamens unequal. Samarte glabrate : crest about 8 mm. deep, 

 2-3 mm. br. ; wings obversely deltoid, to 2 cm. deep and br., outer margin 



irregular. 



FAMILY L. POLYGALACEJS. 



Herbs, or shrubs often climbing, or trees. Leave^ generally 

 alternate, simple, without stipules. Flowers in spikes or racemes, 

 hermaphrodite, irregular. Sepals ~>, imbricate, the '2 innermost 

 larger, petaloicl, wing-like (''wings"), all persistent round the 

 fruit (in Polijtjnln). Petals ',} or 5, the large petal concave, 

 enclosing the stamens and pistil ("keel"), '2 nearly as long as 

 the keel, 2 (in W. Indian species) v/antin^ or very small and 

 scale-like. Stamens S ; filaments united into a cleft sheath and 

 adhering more or less to the petals at the base ; anthers soine- 

 iv. i; 



