286 XXV, MALPIGHIACE.E. 



2. TEISTELLATEIA, Thouars. 



Calyx witliout any or with very minute glands. Petals distinctly clawed. 

 Stamens all perfect, filaments rigid, tmncate, and articidate at the top ; anthers 

 acute. Ovary 3-lobed, style single or 2, or very rarely 3 unequal ones, the 

 others reduced to small papillae. Fruit-carpels 3, each one bearing about 7 

 small linear stellately spreading wings. Seeds obovoid; testa membranous, 

 cotyledons fleshy, hooked. — "Woody climbers. Leaves opposite or whorledj 

 the petiole bearing 1 or 2 glands at the top, and minute stipidcs at the base. 

 Flowers yellow^, in terminal or lateral racemes. 



A. small genus ranging over Madagascar and the Indian Archipelago, one species from the 

 latter region extending into Australia. 



1. T. australasica, A. Rich. SerL Astrol. 38, t. 15. A tall, glabrous 

 ^limber. Leaves opposite, on rather short petioles, ovate, acute, 2 to 4 in. 

 long, membranous, the glands of the petiole usually single and sometimes 

 wanting. Kacemes terminal, loose, 4 to 6 in. long. Pedicels opposite, a ^^ 

 I in. long, articulate, with 2 minute braeteoles below the middle. Petals 6 

 or 4 lines long, spreading, the lamina ovate-cordate, the claw slender, Fna- 

 ments much thickened below the middle, and veiy shortly united. Pruit 

 (only seen in Archipelago specimens) quite glabrous, the wings of the carpels 

 unequal, the longest often 3 lines long. 



Queensland- i^ Brovvn*s River, M'Gilllvray. 



The species is found in various islands of the Indian Archipelago. The specimens 

 described under the name of Plafi/nema laurijvlivm by "Wight and Arnott, in Jamesons 

 Journal, and inserted in their ' Trodronius/ p. 107, as of doubtful Ceyloncsc origin, proved 

 afterwards to have been frciu Singapore. 



Order XXVI. ZYGK)PHYLLE^. 



Flowers usually hermaphrodite and regular. Sepals 5 or 4, very rarely d, 

 free or eonnatc at the base, imbricate or rarely valvate iii the bud. Petals 

 as many, free, imbricate or contorted, rarely valvate or wanting. Disl<^ convex 

 or depressed, rarely annular or undeveloped. Stamens usually the same or 

 twice the number of the petals, the filaments most frequently with a scale or 

 wings at or below the middle; anthers 2-celled, opening longitudinally- 

 Ovarj^ sessile or shortly stalked, often angular, with as many cells as petals or 

 sepals, rarely more or fewer ; style simple, with a simple or rarely lobed stignia. 

 Ovules 2 or more in each cell, rarely solitary, pendulous or ascending, \vitn a 

 ventral raphe. Fruit sometimes dmpaceous, never baccate, more usually se- 

 parating into indeliiseent or 2-valved cocci, the endocarp occasionally separatmg- 

 Seeds solitary or rarely several, pendulous; testa membranous, crustaccous, or 

 thick aad mucilaginous when wetted ; albumen usually thin. Embryo as long 

 as the seed, green, straight, or rarely curved ; cotvledons oblong or lin^^J*"' 

 radicle short, superior.— Shrubs, uudershrubs, or herbs, the branches usual y 

 divaricate and articulate at the nodes. Leaves opposite, or rarely aUernate 

 by the abortion of one of each pair, 2-foliolate or pinnate, rarely simple, the 

 leaflets usually entire. Stipules in pairs. Peduncles axillar}', 1-flowercd, or 

 rarely branching into cymes. Flowers mostly white, yellow," or red. 



