Malpighia MALPIGHIACE^ 229 



Peckham Woods, Upper Clarendon, 2500 ft., Harrisl Fl. Jam. 11,189. 



Slender shrub, 12 ft. high. Sepals oblong, about 3 mm. 1. ; glands 6, 

 about 2 mm. 1. Petals rose-coloured. Styles, 2 larger than the third. 

 Drupes not known. 



§ 2. Margin of leaves sinuate-dentate, with the teeth ending 

 in spiny bristles. 



8. M. eoeeigera L. Sp. PI. 436 (1753); Jacq. Ic. PI. Bar. t. 

 470; Griseb. loc. cit. ; Niedenzu torn. cit. 19; Small torn. cit. 160. 

 M. humilis ilicis cocci-glandi ferae foliis Plum. Gen. 46, PL 

 Amer. (Burm.) t. 168, /. 2 & Ic. ined. ii. 128. M. coccigrya 

 L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 611 (1762). M. coccifera Cav.Diss. 408, t. 235, 

 /. 2 (1789); Bot. Beg. <. 568. 



Wright\ — Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, Dominica, Martinique, St. 

 Lucea, St. Vincent. 



Shrub about 3 ft. high. Leaves small, -7-2 cm. 1., roundish or 

 roundish-elliptical, teeth large, coarse, spines l"5-2 mm. 1., forming a 

 continuation of the tooth, upper surface shining, with nerves and veins 

 prominent, lower surface with nerves and veins scarcely visible, sessile or 

 subsessile, margin recurved. Flowers solitary, or 2 on a short peduncle, 

 pedicels jointed, l"5-2 cm. 1. Sepals oblong or ovate-oblong, about 

 3 mm. 1. ; glands 6, more than half as long. Petals pink, to about 1 cm. 1. 

 Drupe somewhat globular, 9 or 10 mm. in diam., red. 



3. BUNCHOSIA L. C. Rich, ex Juss. 



Leaves usually with 2 glands on the lower surface a little 

 above the base ; stipules minute, sometimes united into one. 

 Inflorescence an axillary raceme. Calyx persistent, with 8 to 10 

 sessile glands (in Jamaican species), about half as long as the 

 calyx. Petals yellow. Filaments glabrous, united at the base. 

 Ovary 2-3-celled ; styles united, with a triangular stigma. 

 Drupe, the flesh drying up, releasing the pyrenes ; pyrenes 2-3 

 (rarely 1), without crests. 



Species 32, natives of the West Indies and tropical conti- 

 nental America. 



Leaves narrowly elliptical, to 10 cm. 1. 



Leaves seldom shortly acuminate, to 7 "5 cm. 1. 

 Racemes usually as long as, or longer than the 



leaves 1. B. Swartziana. 



Leaves generally shortly acuminate, to 10 cm.- 1. 

 Racemes usually somewhat shorter than the 



leaves 2. B. media. 



Leaves broadly elliptical, to 16 cm. 1 3. B. jamaicensis. 



1. B. Swartziana Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 115 (1859) ; leaves 

 narrowly elliptical to elliptical, occasionally shortly acuminate, 

 tapering to the base, 3-7 • 5 cm. 1. ; racemes usually as long as, 



