Orper XXVI. MALPIGHIACE. 
Flowers bisexual, regular. Calyx 5-parted, imbricate, some 
or all of the segments 2-glanded at back. Petals 5, clawed, 
spreading. Disk expanded or often inconspicuous. Stamens 
10 (5 sometimes abortive), connate at base. Ovary of 3 or 2 
imperfectly united carpels, 3-2-lobed; ovules solitary. Albu- 
men 0.—Shrubs, erect or climbing, with mostly opposite, sim- 
ple, mostly entire leaves, and corymbose or racemose, red or 
yellow flowers. Pubescence silky. 
Carpels each with a single dorsal wing . . . . . 1. ACRIDOCARPUS. 
Carpels each 2- or several-winged. 
Styles3.  Petalsfrmged . .. . . . . . . 2. TRIASPIS. 
Style 1. Petals sagittate-ovate . . . . . . . 8. TRISTELLATELA. 
1. ACRIDOCARPUS, Guill. and Perr. 
Calyx 5-fid, minutely glandular or glandless. Petals un- 
equal, clawed, glabrous, subentire. Stamens 10, all perfect ; 
filaments distinct, short, rigid; anthers large, cordato-lanceo- 
late, glabrous. Ovary 3-celled, hairy, each lobe with a dorsal 
wing; styles 2, very long, divergent, filiform, flexuous, acute, 
coiled up in estivation. Samaras 1-2, on an oblong recep- 
tacle expanding above into a straight or oblique wing, which 
is thickened along its upper margin.— FJ. Cap. 1. p. 2381; 
Thes. Cap. t. 19. 
Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire, 
glabrous or silky. Racemes or corymbs terminal or lateral. Flower yel- 
low.—3 species in the Natal country. is 
2. TRIASPIS, Burch. 
Calyx short, 5-parted, without glands. Petals longer thap 
the calyx, clawed, fringed. Stamens 10, fertile, unequal, con- 
nate at base and adnate to the stipe of the ovary. Carpels 3, 
each expanded into a wing at each side, and united into a 
3-lobed, 6-winged, shortly stipitate ovary ; styles 3, glabrous, 
elongate, flat, acute. Samaras 3 or fewer, winged at the mar- 
gin, the wing shield-like, sometimes interrupted at the apex, 
commonly dorsally crested in the middle.-—#V. Cap. i. p. 232. 
Mostly climbers. 7. hypericoides, Beh., an erect shrub 3-4 feet high, 
with opposite, linear, glabrous leaves and rosy flower, was found by Bur- 
chell at Kosi Font, lat. 27° 52’. 
3. TRISTELLATEIA, Thouars. 
Calyx 5-parted, with minute glands or none. Petals 
clawed, keeled externally, glabrous, sagittate-ovate. Stamens 
10, fertile, connate at base, those opposite the petals longer. 
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