MALPIGHIACE^E. 



Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 121. 



BYRSONIMA. 



Calyx 5-parted, with 10 coarse glands on the outside at the 

 base. Petals unguiculate. Filaments shortly monadelphous. 

 Styles 3, distinct. Drupe with a 3-celled, 3-seeded stone. 



416. B. crassifolia DC. prodr. i. 579. Malpighia crassi- 

 folia and Moureila Aubl. tt. 182, 183. Mountains and savannahs 

 of Guayana. 



A small tree. Leaves ovate, thick, entire, glabrous, but covered 

 with stinging hairs above, rufous and downy beneath. Stipules oblong, 

 acute, villous. Flowers in a long terminal spike, yellow. Fruit green 

 and villous. According to Aublet the bark is employed as a febrifuge 

 in Guayana. Under the name of Chapara Manteca it is used in" infusion 

 as an antidote to the bite of the rattle-snake. It is also said to be em- 

 ployed successfully as a remedy for abscesses in the lungs. Ed. new. 

 ph. journ. June, 1830. p. 169. 



ERYTHROXYLE^E. 



Nat. syst. ed. 2. p. 122. 



ERYTHROXYLON. 



Calyx 5-parted, 5-angled at the base. Styles 3, distinct from 

 the very base, not consolidated. 



417. E. Coca Lam. diet. ii. 593. Cav. diss. 402. t. 229. 

 Comp. to JBot.Mag. i. 161 and ii. 25- t. 21 . Cultivated on the 

 Andes of Peru from 2000 to 9000 feet above the sea. 



Leaves alternate, 1^-2 inches long, membranous, flat, opaque, acute 

 at both ends, the apex almost mucronate ; quite entire, dark green 

 above, pale beneath, 3-nerved in the middle, with fine connecting veins. 

 Petiole 2-4 lines long, with a pair of intra-petiolary ovate-lanceolate 

 brown acute stipules, upon the back of the outside of which, indeed, 

 the petiole is articulated, and from which the leaf readily falls away, 

 leaving the branches scaly with the persistent stipules. Flowers 

 numerous, in fascicles from the branches where the leaves have fallen 

 away, bracteated. Peduncles about as long as the flower, sharply 

 angled. Calyx 5-cleft ; segments acute. Petals alternate with the 

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