MALPIGHIACE.E. I. MALPIOHIA. 



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FIG. 107. 



8. p. 409. t. 236. f. 1. Lodd. hot. cab. 321. M. linearis, Jacq. 

 135. Flowers pale-purple or pink. Fruit small, oval, furrowed, 

 when ripe of a dark-purple colour. 



Narrow-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1737. 

 Shrub 7 feet. 



7 M. AQUIFOLIA (Lin. spec. 

 611.) branches smooth; leaves 

 lanceolate, with spiny teeth, beset 

 with decumbent, stinging bristles 

 beneath ; peduncles axillary, soli- 

 tary or twin, 2-flowered. ^ . S. 

 Native of South America and the 

 West Indies. Plum. ed. Burm. t. 

 1C8. f. 1. Cav. diss. 8. p. 409. t. 

 236. f. 2. M. illicifolium, Mill, 

 diet. no. 8. Flowers pale-blush 

 or pink. Fruit of a dark-purple 

 colour when ripe (f. 197.). 



Holly-leaved BarbadoesCherry. 

 Fl. Aug. Sept. Clt. 1759. Shrub 

 7 feet. 



8 M. MACROPHY'LLA (Willd. 

 enum. suppl. p. 37.) leaves large, 



oval, quite entire, beset with silky hairs above, and with sting- 

 ing, decumbent bristles beneath ; umbels of flowers lateral, ses- 

 sile. Tj.S. Native of Brazil. Col. hort. rip. t. 11. Flowers 

 red or pink. 



Long-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1820. 

 Tree 14 feet. 



SECT. II. APY'RJE (from awvpoc, apyros, free from fire ; in 

 allusion to the leaves being without stinging bristles). D. C. 

 prod. 1. p. 578. Leaves smooth or clothed with hairs, which 

 are not stinging, nor fixed by their centre. 



* Leaves smooth. 



9 M. COCCI'FERA (Lin. ed. Reich. 2. p. 371.) leaves obovate 

 or roundish, with spiny teeth, smooth, shining ; peduncles axil- 

 lary, solitary, furnished with two scales at their middle. ^ . S. 

 Native of South America. A small bushy shrub, thickly beset 

 with box-like leaves. Flowers'pale-blush or pink. Fruit small, co- 

 nical, furrowed, of a purple colour when ripe. Ker. bot. reg. 568. 



Berry-bearing Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. June, Aug. Clt. 1733. 

 Shrub 2 feet. 



10 M. GLA'BRA (Lin. spec. 609.) leaves ovate, quite entire, 

 smooth, shining ; peduncles axillary, umbellate, fj . S. Native 

 of South America, particularly in the West Indies. Mill. ill. t. 

 181. f. 2. Cav. diss. t. 234. f. 1. Sloan, jam. 2. p. 106. t. 207. 

 f. 2. Flowers rose-coloured or bright purple. Fruit round, red, 

 and smooth, about the size and shape of a cherry, having one or 

 more furrows on the outside, and containing within a reddish, 

 sweetish, not unpleasant, copious, juicy pulp, and 3 or 4 trian- 

 gular nuts, so fitted together as to appear one, but this is the 

 case in all the species. This tree is cultivated in all the West 

 Indian Islands, and in many parts of the main land of South 

 America, for its fruit, which is esteemed there, but is much in- 

 ferior to our cherries. It is called in the British West Indies 

 Barbadoes Cherry. Sims, bot. mag. 813. 



Smooth-leaved or True Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. March, Sept. 

 Clt. 1757. Tree 16 feet. 



11 M. BIFLORA (Poir. diet. 4. p. 326.) leaves ovate, lanceo- 

 late, acute, smooth ; peduncles axillary, 2-flowered. T? . S. Na- 

 tive of South America in woods. M. punicifolia, Cav. diss. 8. 



p. 406. t. 234. f. 2. Leaves entire. Flowers pale-red. 



Ttvo-fionered Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1810. 

 -Shrub 10 feet. 



12 M. PUNICIFOHA (Lin. spec. 609.) leaves ovate, quite en- 

 tire, smooth; peduncles axillary, 1 -flowered. Tj. S. Native 

 of South America, particularly of the West Indies. Plum. ed. 

 Burm. t. 166. f. 2. Pluck, phyt. t. 57. f. 7. Flowers rose- 

 coloured. Fruit about the size and shape of a cherry, very suc- 

 culent, and of a pleasant, rather acid taste. This shrub has 

 much the appearance of the pomegranate. 



Pomegranate-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 

 1690. Shrub 8 feet. 



13 M. NI'TIDA (Mill. diet. no. 5. Lin. spec. 609.) leaves lan- 

 ceolate, acute, quite entire, smooth, shining ; peduncles umbel- 

 lately-racemose, axillary and terminal. Tj . S. Native of South 

 America, particularly about Carthagena, and in the West Indies. 

 A beautiful shrub, with pink flowers. 



Shining-leaved. Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. March, July. Clt. 

 1733. Shrub 10 feet. 



14 M. BERTERIA'NA (Spreng. syst. 2. p. 383.) leaves obovate, 

 somewhat emarginate, membranaceous, opaque, smooth ; pe- 

 duncles axillary, aggregate, usually 1-flowered. Jj . S. Native 

 of Guadaloupe. Flowers rose-coloured ? 



Bertero's Barbadoes Cherry. Shrub 10 feet. 



15 M. EMARGINA'TA (Moc. et Sesse, fl. mex. icon. ined. D. C. 

 prod. 1. p. 578.) leaves ovate, obtuse, wavy, emarginate at the 

 apex, smooth ; peduncles axillary, divided to the base into 4 or 

 5 umbellate pedicels, tj . S. Native of Mexico. Flowers 

 red or pale-pink? 



Emarginate-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. Shrub 8 feet ? 



* Leaves pubescent or dorvny, 



16 M. FAOI'NEA (Swartz, fl. ind. occid. 2. p. 850.) leaves 

 oblong-ovate, quite entire, silky and shining beneath ; peduncles 

 axillary, 3-parted, umbellate. T? . S. Native of the Caribbee 

 Islands. Flowers yellow. Fruit unknown. 



.BeacA-le.aved Barbadoes Cherry. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1820. 

 Shrub 10 feet? 



17 M. MALIFOLIA (Nees et Mart, in nov. act. bonn. 12. p. 

 21.) tomentose; leaves cordate, ovate, acute, quite entire, 

 shining above, but villously tomentose beneath, furnished with 

 2 glands at the base ; flowers in 3-parted umbels, axillary, fj . 

 S. Native of Brazil about Tamburil. Petals red and white, 

 spotted, ciliated. 



Apple-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. Shrub 6 to 8 feet. 



18 M. SACCHARI NA ; leaves large, obovate, tapering to the 

 base, pale beneath, on long footstalks ; pedicels axillary, solitary, 

 short, and thick. Jj . S. Native of Sierra Leone. The fruit of 

 this tree is sold in great quantities in the market of Freetown, 

 during the months of February and March, under the name of 

 sugar-plum ; they are about the size of the bullace-plum, round, 

 rough on the outside, with scattered warts, of a greyish colour, 

 and half-filled by 3 or 4 oval-flatted seeds, which are so fitted 

 together as to appear one ; surrounded by a very sweet agreeable 

 pulp. It is a beautiful and lofty tree, sometimes quite clear of 

 branches to the height of 60 feet, where it terminates in a fine head. 



Sierra Leone Sugar-plum. Fl. Dec. Jan. Tree 80 feet. 



19 M. INCA'NA (Mill. diet. no. 3.) leaves lanceolate, hoary 

 beneath ; peduncles axillary, umbellate. ^ . S. Native of 

 Campechy. M. Campechiensis, Poir. diet. 4. p. 333. Flowers 

 rose-coloured. M. canescens, Ait. hort. kew. ed. 1. vol. 2. 

 p. 105 ? 



Hoary-leaved Barbadoes Cherry. Clt. 1742. Tree 18 feet. 



t Doubtful species, tvith yellow Jloners. 



20 M. GRANDIFOLIA (Jacq. amer. p. 137.) leaves lanceolate- 

 oblong, entire ; peduncles axillary, in racemose corymbs, fj . S. 

 Native of Martinique in woods. Leaves a foot long. Flowers 

 yellow. This is probably a species of Bunchosia, 



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