. Hirracr. MALPIGHIACEA, * 107 
3-lobed, consisting of 3 carpels, more or less combined : ovules solitary : 
styles 3, distinct or united. Placentæ in the axis. Fruit dry or fleshy, 
of 3 distinct carpels or 3-celled, occasionally 1-2-celled by abortion. 
Seeds solitary, pendulous. Albumen 0. Embryo curved or straight : 
radicle short, next the hilum : cotyledons foliaceous or thickish.— Small 
trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves simple, opposite, or very 
rarely alternate, not dotted, usually with stipules. Pedicels articulated 
in the middle. 
We omit here Ancistrocladus, Wall., the Wormia of Vahl in Act. soc. hist. nat. 
Hafn. (Skrifter af Naturhistorie Selskabet) 6. p. 104, not of Rottboell, as we have 
not seen the Peninsular species, 4. Heyneanus, Wall. L. n. 7262; nor do we yet pos- 
sess sufficient specimens of the others to enable us to determine if it actually belongs 
to this order: the petals and stamens are perigynous, the former sessile: the base of 
the ovary is immersed in the bottom of the calyx, and is apparently 1-celled with 
l erect ovule, although there be three clavate om pe and truncated styles: the fruit 
Is inferior and crowned by the persistent enlarged lobes of the calyx, and is (accord- 
= 
ing to Vahl) a 1-seeded drupe: Vahl says there are 5 stamens; we find 10, distinct, 
the alternate ones with extremely short filaments. To this genus the Va//i-moda, 
of Rheede (Mal. 7. t. 47) seems to belong, and is probably the same with 4. Hey- 
neanus, tem 
I. HIPTAGE. Gertn. fr. t. 116. 
Calyx 5-parted, furnished with 5 glands at the base on the outside. Petals 
5, unequal, fringed. Stamens 10, one of them much longer than the others. 
Styles combined into one. Carpels dry, indehiscent, 3 (or usually only 1 or 
2 from abortion), unequally 3-winged, with or without an additional central 
keel or small wing between the two lateral wings and parallel with them.— 
Climbing shrubs, with opposite leaves. ; 
370. (1) H. Madablota (Geertn.:) shoots shortish, branched : leaves (large) 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminated : fruit m Pg stone vus m A 
conspicuous.— DC. ; I9. : . syst, 2. p. y kd d f. H 
Wight ! eat. n. xi. ONE ue DN dos. 9. t. 263.—Geertnera ra- 
cemosa, Roxb. Cor. 1. t. 18; fl. Ind. 2. p. 368.—Banisteria Benghalensis, 
Linn.—p. unicapsularis, Lam.—Calophyllum Akara, Herb. Burm. (according 
to Choisy).— Reed. Mai, 6. t. 59. 
371. (2) H. parvifolia (W. & A. :) shoots elongated, twiggy: leaves (small) 
elliptical, obtabe fe een a very dba blunt point: fruit without the addi- 
tional wing.— Wight ! cat. n. 358 (from Ceylon), 362. b.—Geertnera laurifolia, 
Wall.? L. n. 7265.—— Courtallum. i 
is has quite a different appearance from the first species, but it is scarcely 
Possible to assign sufficient characters. 
II. PLATYNEMA. W.& 4. 
Calyx 5-partite, without glands at the base. Petals 5, about equal, flat, 
nguieulate, entire on the margin. Stamens 10, alternately shorter : filaments 
dilated at the base, flat, persistent : anthers linear-oblong, deciduous. Styles 
combined into one, filiform, longer than the stamens. Ovary with 3 short 
wings or keels at the apex, which probably in the fruit expand with long 
Wings.—Leaves opposite, elliptical, obtuse. Om 
` * 872. (1) P. laurifolium (W. & A.)—W. & A. in Jameson's Ed. N. Phil. 
ourn. July 1833, p. 179 ; Wight! cat. n. 947. de Rye Hc 
specimens are from Ceylon, but it probably also occurs in the southern 
Parts of the Peninsula. In the Philosophical Journal, we referred here the 
nera laurifolia of Wallich, but circumstances have now induced us to 
Suspect that the plant he had in view was Hiptage parvifolia. 
