148 FAMILIES OF FLOWEEING PLANTS 



fleshy or capsular in fruit; the carjDels often very curiously and promi- 

 nently winged. The fruit of Mal])ighia glabra is edible, being known 

 in the West Indies as the Barbadoes cherry. Other species of this 

 genus are cultivated for their peculiar flowers, as also species of Banis- 

 teria and Hiraea. This family is represented in the United States by 

 five genera, one member of which is the undershrub Byrsonimia lucida, 

 occurring in south Florida. It has racemes of rather pretty pink flow- 

 ers. B. spicata of the West Indies has edible acid berries and bark 

 used for medicinal purposes and for tanning. 



