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[Plate 41.] 
THE BARBADOS CHERRY. 
(MALPIGIUA GLABRA.) 
A Stove Shrub, from The West Indies, belonging to the Natural Order o/Malpighiads. 
Specific Cljaractrr. 
THE BARBADOS CHERRY.— Young twigs and pedi. 
eels very slightly downy. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 
smooth when old, covered with acicular peltate hairs on 
the under side when quite young. Flowers in axillary 
stalked umbels. Glands of sepals 2x2 1 x 2 and 0. 
Petals fringed. 
MALPIGHIA GLABRA: ramulis pedicellisque pubesceu- 
tibus, foliis lanceolatis acumiiiatis vetustis glaberrimls 
novelUs subtus pilis malpigliiaceis tectis, umbellia axil- 
laribus pedunculatis, sepalorum glandulis 2x21x2 
et 0, 
Malpighia glabra : Zinnm Sptcies Plautarurrty 609. P. Broicne, History of Jamaica, p. 230. Sloane's History of Jamaica, 
vol. ii., p. 106, t. 207, f. 2, Miller Ic, U 181,/. 2. Cavanilles, Dissert, viii., L 234,/. L Adr, Juss. Malpighiac. p. 11 
AcK Rich. Fl. Cub, p. 273. 
^HOEYER has visited the AYest India Islands must 
called 
Cherries, 
snilar fruits 
called Chereezes. Brins d^ Am 
and Gereceros. In Barbados they are especially plentiful, and have given its name to Cherry Hill, 
a well-known place in that colony. These fruits are the produce of the plant no^v figured^ and of 
another 
Pomegranate 
our garden 
[M. punicifolia); small trees from twenty to thirty feet 
our fifijure was taken was raised from Mexican 
to the Horticultural Society^ in whose garden it flowers in September. It first began to blossom in 
1847, and has done so every year since that time; but its flowers have never set, and EnKlish-"*rown 
desideratum 
It is however a very prett) 
umbels 
gay with its brigl 
because 
It is not however a 
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