152 THALAMIFLOR^, 



wing, thickened on the upper side. Seed 1, pendu- 

 lous. Cotyledons thick, unequal. Radicle superior, 

 turned towards the hilum he Cand. 



Trees or shrubs, generally climbing. — Named, by Dr Hous- 

 ton, in lionour of the Rev. John Banister, a Botanist, who lost 

 his life in Virginia, when engaged in collecting plants. 



1. Banisteria laurifolia. Bay-leaved Banisteria. 



Leaves ovato-lanceolate subacute sub-coriaceous 

 glabrous, petioles eglandulose, racemes terminal pani- 

 cled ferrugineo-tomentose, stigmata dimidiate. 



Acer scandens, foliis laurinis, Shane, II. 26 Banistei'ia 



laurifolia, Swartz, Obs. 182. — De Cand. Prod. I. 589. 



HAB. Common in thickets. 



FL. From February to the end of May. 



Stem shrubby, twining: branches loose, terete, scabrous, when 

 young tonientose. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovato-oblong, 

 subacute, subcoriaceous, glabrous : petioles when young ferrugi- 

 neo-tomentose, eglandulose. Racemes terminal, panicled. Pe- 

 duncles ferrugineo-tomentose. Flowers shortly pedicelled, yel- 

 low. A small roundish concave ferrugineo-pubescent bractea 

 at the base of each pedicel. Calycine segments oblong, obtuse. 

 Petals clawed, with the limb roundish. Filaments cohering at 

 the base. Ovary pubescent : styles 3, greenish : stigmata sim- 

 ple. Wings of the carpels about an inch in length. 



S. Banisteria splendens. Showy Banisteria. 



Leaves cordate apiculated orbiculato-oval sericeo- 

 pubescent beneath, petioles biglandulose at the apex, 

 racemes axillary subdichotomous corymbose. 



Acer scandens minus, apocyni facie, folio subrotundo, Sloancy 

 II. t. 162. f. 2. — Banisteria foliis orbiculatis, Browne, 231. — 

 B. heterophylla, Willd. Sp. II. 742.— B. fulgens. Lam. Diet. 

 I. 368 — Cav. diss. IX. 426. t. 253.— B. splendens, De Cand. 

 Prod. I. 588. 



HAB. Common on fences and in thickets. Liguanea, &c. 



FL. March. 



Fruticose: branches twining, terete, granulated, minutely 

 puberulous. Leaves opposite, petiolated, oval, subcordate at 

 the base, rounded but apiculated at the apex, entire, subgla- 

 brous above, appresso-puberulous beneath with stipitate hairs : 

 petiole terete, minutely puberulous, furnished close to the base 

 of the leaf with a pair of opposite sessile urceolate glandules. 

 Racemes axillary, corymbose ; peduncles dichotomous, or two 



