Mascagnia 



MALPIGHIACE.^ 



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Wright ! Distin ! Cuviing ! Great Valley, Manchester, Purdie ! Glasgow 

 near Troy, 1400 ft. ; Pepper, St. Elizabeth, 250 ft. ; Spur Tree Hill, 2000 ft. ; 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9487, 9862, 9865. 



Stems to 20 ft. 1. Leaves ovate, 6-13 cm. 1. Sepals ovate, oblong, or 

 roundish, 3-4 mm. 1.; glands 1-2 mm. 1. Petals yellow, spreading: limb 



Fig. 8^.— Mascagnia Hireea Fawc. & Rendle. 



A, Stamens and pistil X 4. C, Fruit X IJ. 



B, Carpel with ovary cut lengthwise X 6. D, Embryo (after A. de Jussieu) 



roundish, 4 similar with entire margin and base retuse or somewhat 

 toothed, the fifth with a fringe (1-2 mm. 1.) all round, 7-11 mm. 1. ; claw 

 3 mm. 1. Stamens unequal. Samarie glabrate: crest about 8 mm. deep, 

 2-3 mm. br. ; wings obversely deltoid, to 2 cm. deep and br., outer margin 

 irregular. 



Family L. POLYGALACE^. 



Herbs, or shrubs often clioAbing, or trees. Leaves generally 

 alternate, simple, without stipules. Flowers in spikes or racemes, 

 hermaphrodite, irregular. Sepals 5, imbricate, the 2 innermost 

 larger, petaloid, wing-like ("wings"), all persistent round the 

 fruit (in Poly gala). Petals 3 or 5, the large petal concave, 

 enclosing the stamens and pistil (" keel "), 2 nearly as long as 

 the keel, 2 (in W. Indian species) wanting or very small and 

 scale-like. Stamens 8 ; filaments united into a cleft sheath and 

 adhering more or less to the petals at the base ; anthers some- 



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