Stigmaphyllon MALPIGHIACE^ 237 



Mu8. Par. in. 381. S. lingulatum Small loc. cit. (1910). Acer 

 scandens minus, apocyni facie, folio subrotundo Sloane Cat. 138 

 & Hist. a. 27, t. 167, /. 2. Banisteria foliis orbiculatis &c. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 231. Banisteria fulgens L. Sp. PI. 427 (1753) 

 (non S. fulgens A. Juss. 1840). B. emarginata Cav. Diss. 425, 

 t. 249 (1790). Triopteris lingulatum Poir. in Lam. Encyc. viii. 

 104 (1808). B. periplocsefolia DC. Prodr. i. 589 (1824). 

 B. splendens Mac/. Jam. i. 152 (1837) (non DC). (Fig. 79.) 

 Specimen from Hort. Cliff, in Herb. Mus. Brit., also one from 

 Browne in Herb. Linn, named by Linnseus Banisteria fulgens. 



Sloane Herb. v. 94, 95, 96 1 Houstoun ! Browne 1 Wright ! Shakspear ! 

 Macfadyen ! Distin ! St. Mary, McNab ! Purdie 1 Wilson 1 Prior 1 March 1 

 Hope Grounds, J.P. 1009; King's House grounds, J.P. 1309; Morris \ 

 Lucea, Hitchcock; Gordon Town, 1100 ft.; sea-coast near Falmouth; 

 Papine 800 ft. ; Spanish Town road, 100 ft. ; Fort Henderson ; Green 

 Island, Fish river ; Montego Bay ; near Old Harbour Bay ; Harris 1 PI. 

 Jam. 5706, 7236, 8368,i 8524, 9232, 10,148, 10,258, 10,350, 11,947.— West 

 Indies from Cuba to St. Lucia. 



Leaves 1-14 cm. 1., '6-9 cm. br. Peduncles and pedicels pubescent 

 with adpressed hairs or glabrescent. Sepals ovate or roundish ovate, 

 exceeding the glands by 2-3 mm.; glands elliptical or roundish ovate, 

 1-5-2 mm. 1, Petals 8-12 mm. in diam. ; claw 2-4 mm. 1. Samara: 

 pericarp ribbed lengthwise and somewhat reticulately, 4-6 mm. 1. ; wing 

 obliquely obovate-oblong, 16-20 mm. 1., 6-9 mm. br. ; appendage at base 

 of wing triangular, rounded, or somewhat 4- sided, 2-3 mm. 1. 



Intermediate forms between S. emarginatum and S. periplocxfolium, 

 occur in Jamaica, as Niedenzu has pointed out ; we think that these forms, 

 and those occurring in the other islands, which have been known as 

 S. periplocie folium, should all be regarded as one species. 



The Hort. Cliff, specimen, and one collected by Distin in Jamaica in 

 Herb. Kew., are considered by A. Jussieu to belong to his species S. diver- 

 sifolium, but we do not think that these specimens can be separated from 

 S. enuirginatum. 



We have seen in Herb. Smith at the Linnean Society the leaf which. 

 Cavanilles sent for comparison with the specimen named Banisteria 

 fulgens by Linnseus (see Cav. Diss. 427), and as Smith pointed out it is 

 different. It is unfortunate that Smith's answer was delayed so long that 

 Cavanilles' plate was engraved with the name B. fulgens, and Cavanilles 

 felt himself compelled to put the name which Lamarck had given in error 

 into circulation. Jussieu followed Cavanilles, and in transferring the 

 species to Stigmaphijllon, called it S. fulgens. As this name has been 

 so long in use, another S. fulgens cannot now displace it. 



2. S. puberum A. Juss. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sir. 2, xiii. 289 

 (1840) & Arch. Mus. Par. Hi. 376; leaves ovate-elliptical, usually 

 long acuminate, base subcordate or rounded or obtuse, mem- 

 branous, glabrous above, silky pubescent beneath ; anterior style 

 longer than the posterior, apex growing out into an expansion 

 separated from the stigma by a short stalk, irregularly 4-sided ; 

 apex of the posterior styles growing into a falcate-acute expan- 

 sion ; Griseb. loc. cit. ; Niedenzu op. cit. pt. 2, 22 ; Urh. Symh. 

 Ant. iv. 331 ; Small torn. cit. 144. Banisteria pubera L. C Rich., 

 in Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. i. 109 (1792). 



