MALPIGHIACE.'E. 149 



1. Biinchosia media. Yellow-flowered West-India 



Cherry. 



Leave oblongo-lanceolate acute at the base obtuse 

 at the apex with a glandulose spot on each side of tlie 

 mid-rib towards the base, racemes simple, pedicels 

 jointed and furnished with 2 glanduHferous ciliated 

 bracteas near the base, style 3-gonal, stigma 3-lobed. 



IVfalpighia media, Ait. Hort. Keiv. III. 103. — Buncliosia 

 media, De Cand. Prod. I. 581. 



HAB. Road from Green Valley to Tweedside, Port-Royal 

 mountains. 



FL. April — May. 



A shrub about 8 feet in height, erect : branches terete, ash- 

 coloured, papillose. Leaves opposite, petiolate, elliptic, atten- 

 uated at the base, blunt at the apex, entire, obscurely nerved 

 and veined, glabrous (but to the glass furnished with distant 

 very minute appressed setae) ; a round green glandulose spot on 

 each side of the mid-rib, and towards its base : petiole short. 

 Racemes simple, axillary, in general longer than the leaf: 

 peduncles angulose; pedicels 1-flowered, ^ of an inch in length, 

 jointed near the base. An ovate deciduous bractea at the 

 insertion of each pedicel, and a pair of minute ovate bracteoles 

 (glandulose on the back and near the base) situated at the joint 

 of each pedicel. Flowers yellow. Calyx at the base 8-glan- 

 dulose : divisions blunt, ciliated. Petals with a long claw, 

 roundish, concave, with the margin plicato-lacerated. Stamens 

 10: filaments subulate, monadelphous at the base. Ovary 

 conical, glabrous, style subulate, 3-gonal. Stigmata 3-fid. 

 Drupe size of a pea, red, sub-3-lobed : nuts 2-3, with the shell 

 thin, membranaceous. 



2. * Bunchosia nitida. Shining JBunchosia. 



Leaves oblong acuminate glabrous eglandulose, 

 racemes simple shorter than the leaf. 



Malpighia humilis et minus divisa, foliis ovatis nitidis, 

 baccis durioribus, Broivne, 230? — M. nitida, Swartz, Ohs. 180? 

 —Jacq. Amer. 136?— Cav. diss. VIII. 411. t. 239. f. 1. 



HAB. Limestone districts. — Sivartz. 



FL. Summer. 



A shrub, about 3 feet in height : branches decussating, erect, 

 terete, with the bark shining. Leaves decussato-opposite, pale 

 green, shining : petiole short. Racemes axillary, shorter than 

 the leaf, many-flowered: flowei's yellow, size of those of the 

 Malpighia glabra. Styles 3. Berry globose, subrotund, 

 3-lobed, 3-seeded, red : seeds oblongo-angulated, osseous. 



