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inferior and smaller, and also producing from the 

 dorsum 1-4 alasform or subula^form crests. — De Cand. 



Petioles eglandulose. — Name, from nr^a four, and -rrggoi/ a 

 wing. 



1. Tetrapteris citrifolia. Citron-leaved Tetrapteris, 



Leaves ovato-oblong acute glabrous, umbels axil- 

 lary peduncled, the two inferior wings of the fruit 

 half the length of the upper. 



Triopteris citrifolia, GcBrtn. II. 168. t. 116. — Swartz, Ft. 

 Ind. Occ. 857. — Tetrapteris inaequalis, Cav. diss. t. 260. — Te- 

 trapteris citrifolia, De Cand. Prod. I. 587. 



HAB. In mountain woods. Between Halberstadt and Gal- 

 loway House, Port-Royal mountains. 



FL. June, July. 



A shrub : branches long, trailing, ascending to a height by 

 throwing themselves over neighbouring shrubs and trees, sub- 

 terete, puberulous at their extremities. Leaves opposite, petio- 

 late, ovato-oblong, rounded at the base, acute at the apex, en- 

 tire, glabrous, membranaceous, nerved and veined, about 4 inches 

 long and 1 1 broad : petiole short, subterete, slightly channelled 

 above, puberulous. Umbels axillary and subterminal, pedun- 

 cled, shorter than the leaf, 4-flowered : peduncle compressed, 

 pubescent, bearing a pair of small leaves a short distance below 

 the leaf: pedicels subterete, thickened towards the flower, each 

 furnished with a minute bractea at the insertion, (forming as it 

 were a 4-leaved involucre for the umbel), and a pair, similar, a 

 little above the insertion. Flowers numerous, showy, yellow. 

 Calycine segments oblong, obtuse, incumbent; two of them 

 uniglandulose, 3 of them biglandulose at the base. Petals 

 clawed, roundish, slightly concave and slightly imdulated to- 

 wards the claw. Stamens 10: filaments short, subulate, united 

 at the base : anthers incumbent. Ovaries 3, cohering, villous : 

 styles 3 : stigmata green. Carpels 3 ; the lower pair of wings 

 half the length of the upper. Seeds solitary, subrotund, shining, 

 red. 



VI. Banisteria. 



Calyx 5-partite, externally at the base 8-10 glan- 

 dulose. Petals clawed, subrotund. Stamens 10, with 

 the filaments subulate and cohering at the base. 

 Styles 3, frequently expanded at the apex, into leaflets. 

 Carpels indehiscent, 3-1 -seeded, subdistinct, finally 

 separable, terminating in a simple membranaceous 



