146 THALAMIFLOR^. 



1. Malpighia urens. Stinging West-India Cherry, 



Branches pubescent, leaves oblongo-ovate sub-acu- 

 minate with the apex sharp rounded at the base gla- 

 brous above appresso-setose beneath, racemes axillary 

 solitary corymbose. 



Arbor baccifera, folio oblongo subtilissimis spinis subtus 

 obsitis, fructu cerasino sulcato polypyreno,ossiculis canaliculatis, 

 Sloane, II. 106. t. 207. f. 3. — Malpighia foliis oblongis hispidis, 

 Browne, 229 — M. urens, Cav. diss. t. 235, f. 1 . — Lam. 111. t. 



381. f. 1 — De Cand. Prod. 1. 577 M. Cubensis? H. B. & 



Kunth, V. 145. 



HAB. Not uncommon: Port-Royal mountains ; Rocky point, 

 at the East end of the Island. 



FL. April. 



About 6 feet in height: branches sub-erect, terete, with branch- 

 lets sub-compressed, pilose with appressed hairs which in the old 

 branches are black. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolated, oblongo- 

 ovate, subacuminate with the apex acute, glabrous above, 

 appresso-setose with stinging yellow setse beneath : petiole very 

 short. Peduncles axillary, short, bearing about 4 pedicelled 

 purple flowers in a corymbose raceme shorter than the leaf: 

 pedicels rather more than half an inch in length, arising nearly 

 from the same point of the peduncle, filiform, alternate, furnished 

 at the insertion with a minute bractea, and with a similar pair 

 where it is jointed below the middle. Calycine divisions lanceo- 

 late, setoso-pubescent. Petals purple, two of them rather larger 

 than the rest. Filaments subulate, united for a short distance 

 at the base. Styles longer than the stamens : stigmata green. 



2. Malpighia glabra. Glabrous Barhadoes Cherry. 



Leaves ovate acuminate acute at the base very entire 

 glabrous, peduncles axillary umbellated. 



Arbor baccifera, folio subrotundo, fructu cerasino sulcato 

 rubro polypyreno, ossiculis canaliculatis, Sloane, II. 106. t. 207. 

 f. 2. — Malpighia fruticosa erecta, foliis nitidis ovatis acuminatis, 

 floribus umbellatis, ramulis gracilibus, Broivne, 230. — M. gla- 

 bra, Willd. Sp. 731 — 3IiU. Diet. t. 181. f. 2 Cav. diss. t. 



234. f. I. 



HAB. Common on the lower hills. 



FL. September — November. 



A shrub about 5 feet in height: branches erect, towards 

 their extremities compressed, pilose with appressed hairs. 

 Leaves ovate, acuminate with the apex sharp, acute at the base, 

 entire, obscurely nerved, glabrous, 2-3 inches in length. Stipules 

 inter-petiolary, minute, subulate, hairy. Raceme umbellated. 



