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j|rl. Malpighia polytricha A. Juss. Ann. Sei. Nat. Bot. IT. 13: 336. 1840. 



A shrub, up to 3 m. high, usually much branched. Leaves oblong, oval or 

 obovate, subcoriaceous, 1.5-3 cm. long, rounded, truncate or retuse and usually 

 mucronulate at the apex, cuneate to subcordate at base, sinuate-dentate or 

 entire, reticulate-veined, glabrous above when mature, mostly pubescent with 

 stinging hairs beneath and on the margins, short-petioled ; cymes sessile or 

 nearly so, several-flowered; calyx 10-glandular ; sepals oblcng to ovate, about 

 3 mm. long; corolla pink to scarlet, the larger petals 8-10 mm. long; styles 

 unequal, hooked at the apex; drupe red, subglobose or globose-ovoid, 7-10 mm. 

 in diameter. 



Scrub-lands, coppices and pine-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco 

 and Andros n> Caicos and Inagua. Endemic. Consists of many races, the leal 

 forms various and the stinging hairs abundant, few or none. Recorded by Dolley 

 and Hitchcock as If. serosa Spreng. ; also as such by Mrs. Northrop ; and by Hitch- 

 cock as -1/. punicifolia L. Bahama Malpighia. Touch-me-not. Wild chkukv. 



4. BYRSONIMA Rich.; A. Juss. Ann. Mus. Paris 18: 481. 1811. 



Shrubs or trees, with opposite petioled or sessile leaves, the flowers in 

 terminal panicles or racemes. Calyx 10-glandular, or glandless, of 5 broad 

 persistent sepals. Petals 5, the blades suborbieular to reniform. Stamens 1, 

 all antheriferous; filaments short, slightly united at the base. Ovary 3-lobed; 

 styles 3, slender; stigmas subulate. Drupes ovoid to globose. [Greek, tanning.] 

 About 100 species, of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Mal- 

 pighia spicata Cav. 



^fC 1. Byrsonima cuneata (Turcz.) P. Wilson, Bull. X. Y. Bot. Gard. 8: 394. 1917. 



Malpighia ludda Sw. Prodr. 74. 1788. Not Miller. 1768. 



Byrsonima ludda DC. Prodr. 1: 580. 1824. 



Malphighia cuneata Turcz. Bull. Soc. Imp. Xat. Mosc. 3P: 390. 1858. 



Usually a shrub, 2.5 m. high or less, sometimes a small tree up to 8 m. high, 

 the twigs slender, mostly short. Leaves spatulate to obovate, rather thin in 

 texture, flat, 1.5-5.5 em. long, glabrous, rounded or abruptly acute at the apex, 

 narrowed or cuneate at the base, reticulate-veined and shining above, dull 

 beneath, the petioles 2-5 mm. long; pedicels sparingly pubescent or glabrous; 

 sepals ovate or oblong, about 3 mm. long; petals white to red, the larger 5-7 

 mm. long; drupes globose, brown, 9-12 mm. in diameter. 



Coastal coppices, borders of swamps and in wet places in pine-lands-. Abaco, 

 Great Bahama, Andros. New Providence, Ele'uthera, Cat Island. Crooked Island, 

 Fortune Island, Aeklin's Island, Inagua:- Florida; Cuba to Anegada and Bar- 

 badoes. LOcust-bebby. Goana-bebby. Caxdle-bebby. 



5. BUNCHOSIA Rich.; A. Juss. Ann. Mus. Paris 18: 4S1. 1811. 



Shrubs or trees-, with opposite, usually coriaceous, petioled or nearly sessile 

 leaves, and yellow or white flowers in terminal panicles. Calyx 8-10-glandular, 

 the 5 sepals persistent. Petals 5, their broad blades undulate or toothed. 

 Stamens 10, all antheriferous; filaments partly united, glabrous; anthers short. 

 Ovary 2-3-lobed ; styles united; stigma 3-lobed or capitate. Drupe ovoid, 

 globose or reniform. [Said to be derived from an Arabic name for coffee.] 

 Thirty species or more, of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: 

 Malpighia od.ora.ta Jaeq. 



