Triojpteris MALPIGHIACE^ 239 



Browne is in Herb. Linn, named Banisteria benghalensis by 

 Linnaeus. 



Sloane Herb. v. 92 ! Houstoun ! Browne I Wright 1 Broughtoyi ! Shak- 

 spear 1 Swartz ; Macfadyen ! Wilson ! March 1 Watson's Hill, Manchester, 

 800 ft. ; near Letitz, 500 ft. ; Pedro Bluff ; Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 6380, 7263, 

 9989. 



Leaves reticulate- veined, 3-10 cm. 1.,' 1-7-3 "7 cm. br. Sepals 3-3 '5 

 mm. 1. Petals pink or light purplish, to 5 .or 6 mm. 1.' ; blades broadly 

 roundish or kidney-shaped, with undulate margin. Samaras 14-24 mm. 1. ; 

 upper wings oblong, the lower one oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, or narrowly 

 elliptical ; crest subrhomboid with sinuate-eroded margin. 



T. ovata Cav. from Hispaniola, with which the Jamaican species has 

 been confused, differs in having smaller flowers, and the crest of the samara 

 being ovate-triangular. T. jamaicensis L. is the species from Cuba and the 

 Bahamas, with oblong-elliptical leaves, 2-3 cm. 1. ; it has not been found 

 in Jamaica. 



•2. T. Bpittonii Small in N. Amer. Fl. xxv. 124 (1910) ; leaves 

 ovate, usually broadly so, markedly acuminate, base cordate ; 

 panicle pyramidal. 



Spur Tree Hill, Britten, 1069. Type in Herb. N. York Bot. Gard. of 

 which |a small portion has been presented to Herb. Mus. Brit, by Dr. 

 N. L. Britton 1 



Leaves reticulate-veined, 4-10 cm. 1. Sepals ovate, about 2 mm. 1. ; 

 glands about 1*5 mm. 1. Petals purplish, to 4*5 or 6 mm. 1.; blades 

 roundish, undulate and sometimes irregularly toothed. Samaras not 

 known. 



8. TETRAPTERIS Cav.* 



Woody climbers, trailing over rocks and trees. Leaves 

 without glands ; stipules inconspicuous. Umbels or racemes 

 generally paniculate, termiual. Calyx usually 8-glandular. 

 Petals yellow. Filaments united below. Ovary 3-lobed, lobes 

 crested on the back and with 2 appendages on each side. Apex 

 of styles slightly enlarged. Samarae 1-3, crested on the back, 

 with 4 lateral wings placed X-like, 2 above and 2 below. 

 Embryo folded on itself. 



Species over 60, natives of tropical continental America 

 (chiefly Brazil), and the West Indies. 



T. eitPifolia Pers. Syn. i. 508 (1805) (excl. syn.) ; Macf. Jam. 

 i. 151 (excl. syn. Cav.) ; Urh. Symb. Ant. iv. 328 (in part); Small 

 in N. Amer. Fl. xxv. 125 ; A. Juss. in Arch. Mus. Par. Hi. 522 & 

 Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 121 under T. insequalis Cav. Banisteria 

 foliis ovatis obpositis &c. Plum. PI. Amer. (Burm.) 9, t. 16. 

 Triapteris citrifoiia Sw. Prodr. 75 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 857. 

 T. bifurca Gsertn. Fruct. ii. 168, t. 116 (1791). (Fig. 81.) There 

 is a specimen from Swartz in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Mountain woods, Swartz ! between Halberstadt and Galloway House, 

 Macfadyen, ; St. Mary, McNab ! Purdie 1 Wilson 1 — Hispaniola. 



