xxviii. linacete. 157 



10-celled, with usually 2 or 3 seeds. Fl. B. I. v. 1, p. 413; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 17 ; Trim. FJ. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 189 ; Eeiche, in Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflauzenf. v. 3, part 4, p. 33, fig. 29 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 28 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 302.— Flowers : Aug. 



Rare. Konkan : Law !, Stocks ! ; between Malwan and Vingorla, Balzdl ! Kanara : 

 Stocks ! — DisTRiB. Ceylon. 



Oeder XXIX. MALPHIGIACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves (in the Indian genera) 

 opposite, entire ; glands often present on the petiole or the bottom of 

 the blade or margin of the leaf : stipules small or 0. Inflorescence 

 axillary and terminal ; flowers hermaphrodite, regular or irregular ; 

 pedicels articulated, bracteate. Calyx usually 5-partite ; segments 

 imbricate, very rarely ^■alvate, 1 or more (never all) furnished with a 

 large gland, rarely eglandular {Aspidoiiterys). Petals 5, longer than the 

 calyx, usually equal, fimbriate or dentate, clawed or not. Disk incon- 

 spicuous. Stamens usually 10, hypogynous or subperigynous, equal, or 

 1 or more much longer than the others ; filaments free or connate at the 

 base ; anthers short, 2-celled. Ovary 3-celIed ; ovules solitary in each 

 cell ; styles 1-3, straight or circinate ; stigmas terminal or sublateral, 

 inconspicuous. Fruit (in the Indian genera) of one or more winged 

 samaras Seeds exalbuminous ; embryo straight or curved; radicle 

 superior. — Distbib. Throughout Brazil and Gruiana, less widely in 

 tropical America, Africa and Asia ; species about 600. 



Styles 1, rarely 2 ; calycine gland large 1. Hiptage. 



StylesS; calycine gland 2. AsrrooPTERYs. 



1. HIPTAGE, G^rtn. 

 Scandent shrubs. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, entire, petioled, 

 eglandular, exstipulate. Racemes terminal and axillary, sometimes 

 compound ; peduncles erect, bracteate at the base, articulated with the 

 2-bracteate pedicels. Flowers white, fragrant, the fifth petal discolored. 

 Calyx 5-partite, with 1 large gland partly adnate to the pedicel. Petals 

 clawed, unequal, silky. Stamens 10, declinate, all fertile, one much 

 larger than the others ; filaments connate at the very base. Ovary 

 3-lobed ; lobes appendiculate ; styles 1-2, filiform, at first circinate, 

 the others rudimentary ; stigma capitellate. Fruit of 1-3 samaras, 

 2-3-vvinged. Seeds subglobose ; cotyledons unequal, thick, curved. — 

 DiSTRiB. Tropical Asia ; species 4. 



1. Hiptage Madablota, Gcertn. Fruct. v. 2 (1791) p. 169, t. 116. 

 A large woody much-branched climbing shrub; young parts silky. 

 Leaves coriaceous, 4-7 by l|-3 in., elliptic-oblong, acuminate or acute, 

 entire, glabrous, strongly nerved beneath, base acute ; petioles |-| in. 

 long, silky-pubescent. Flowers i-| in. across, fragrant, white, in erect 

 finely tomentose racemes about as long as the leaves ; bracts lanceolate. 

 Calyx persistent, densely pubescent outside ; lobes oblong, obtuse, one 

 with a large oblong gland at the base outside. Petals twice as long as 

 the sepals, orbicular, clawed, fringed on the margin, the uppermost petal 

 broader than the rest. Carpels with a central wing between the two 

 lateral, the inner wing 1-1^ in, long, the 2 lateral wings | in. long. 



