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together, furnished with imperfectly formed leaves, terete, puber- 

 iilous. Flowers showy, yellow, crowded at the extremity of 

 the peduncle, on pedicels half an inch in length. Calyx 5-fid, 

 with 4> of the divisions biglandulose, and the 5th naked. Petals 

 clawed. Filaments subulate. Ovary 3-gonal : styles spreading, 

 expanded at the apex. 



VII. Heteropteris. 



Character the same as that of Banisteria, except 

 that the wing of the capsule is thickened from with- 

 out, instead of from above. — De Cand. 



Name, from In^n in anotJier place, and 'xrigov a icing. 



1. * Heteropteris c^rulea. Blue-flowered Heterop- 

 teris, 



Leaves ovate acute coriaceous glaucous shortly 

 petiolate, branches tuberculated, racemes axillary, 

 fruit slightly velvety at the base. 



Acer scandens foliis citri, flore caeruleo spicato, Plimi, Spec. 

 18. ic. 14 — Banisteria cserulea. Lain. Diet. I. 367. — Cav. diss. 

 IX. 421. t. 243. — Heteropteris cserulea, H. B. et Kunth, V. 

 163. 



HAB. Stated to be native of this Island and of St Domingo. 



FL ? 



ORDER XLIII. SAPINDACE^. 



Calycine sepals 4-5, either free or cohering at the 

 base ; aestivation imbricated. Petals usually of the 

 same number as the sepals, occasionally one less, very 

 seldom none ; sometimes naked, sometimes villous or 

 glandular in the middle, sometimes with an interior 

 petaloid scale. Stamens double the number of the 

 petals, inserted on a hypogynous glandular disk. 

 Ovary subrotund. Style 1 or 3. Fruit drupaceous 

 or capsular, 3-celled, or by abortion 1- or 2-celled. 

 Seeds solitary in each cell, attached to the axis, exal- 

 buminous : embryo with the radicle pointing towards 



