Brachypterys MALPIGHIACE^E 235 



B. ovata Small in N. Amer. Fl. xxv. 138. B. borealis A. Juss. 

 in Ann. Sc.Nat. ser. 2, xiii. 291 (1840) & Arch. Mus. Par. Hi. 356, 

 t. ii.f. 16. Griseb. Fl. Bras. xii. 35 & Fl. Br. W. Ind. 117; 

 Hemsl. in Biol. Cent. Am. Bot. t. 151. Banisteria ovata Cav. 

 Diss. 429, t. 257, /. 1 (1790). Stigmatophyllon ovatum 

 Niedenzu in Ind. Led. Lye. Brunsh., Stigmatophyllum, pt. 2, 31 

 (1900) ; Urh. Symb. Ant. iv. 331. (Fig. 78.) Specimens of Rohr 

 & Aublet from Guiana, and of Smeathman from Ins. Carib. 

 named by A. Juss. are in Herb. Mus. Brit. . 



Fig. 7B.—Brachypteris ovata Small. 



a, A coccus, nat. size. 



b, Embryo enlarged (after A. de Juf aieu). 



In salt marshes on the seaside, Macfadyen 1 near Annotto Bay ; Port 

 Maria ; McNab ! Wilson. — West Indies, northern S. America, Central 

 America. 



Shrub 1-4 ft. Leaves ovate to lanceolate, apex acute or somewhat 

 ohtuse, base rounded, glabrous above, pubescent with soft short hairs 

 beneath, midrib prominent beneath and with 2 glands on it at the base,. 

 5-11 cm. 1.; petiole 1-1 "5 cm. 1.; bracts roundish-ovate or round, 

 1-3-5 cm. 1. Umbels 3-4-flowered, pedicels 1-5-3 cm. 1.; peduncle 

 8-5-6 cm. 1. Sepals scarcely exceeding the glands by 1 mm.; glands 

 oblong, 2-5-3 mm. 1. Petals: limb crenulate, base wedge-shaped, 7-13 mm. 

 in diam. ; claw 2-4 mm. 1. Styles 3, equal, the appendage hook-like. 

 Cocci somewhat spherical, 10-13 mm, in diam., outer surface with 

 irregular prominent markings ; apical crest triangular, 3-5 mm. 1. or more. 



6. STIGMAPHYLLON A. Juss. 



Trailing twining shrubs, climbing over shrubs and trees. 

 Leaves often silky beneath with hairs attached by their middle, 

 with 2 glands at apex of stalk or base of midrib ; stipules 

 minute. Flowers in peduncled umbel-like corymbs. Calyx with 

 8 glands. Petals yellow, 5-12 mm. in diam. Stamens unequal, 

 6 perfect, 4 not properly developed. Styles 3, truncate at apex 

 or more or less angled, or produced beyond the stigma into a 

 foot-like or expanded appendage. Samarse 1-3, with the wing 

 thickened on the upper mai'gin. Cotyledons often unequal, with 

 the larger enfolding the smaller. 



Species about 50, natives of tropical America, including the 

 West Indies. 



