MALPIGHIACE^E. 149 



1. Bunchosia media. Yellow-flowered West-India 



Cherry, 



Leave oblongo-lanceolate acute at the base obtuse 

 at the apex with a glandulose spot on each side of the 

 mid-rib towards the base, racemes simple, pedicels 

 jointed and furnished with 2 glanduliferous ciliated 

 bracteas near the base, style 3-gonal, stigma 3-lobed. 



Malpighia media, Ait. Hort. Kew. III. 103 Bunchosia 



media, De Cand. Prod. I. 581. 



HAB. Road from Green Valley to Tweedside, Port-Royal 

 mountains. 



FL. April May. 



A shrub about 8 feet in height, erect : branches terete, ash- 

 coloured, papillose. Leaves opposite, petiolate, elliptic, atten- 

 uated at the base, blunt at the apex, entire, obscurely nerved 

 and veined, glabrous (but to the glass furnished with distant 

 very minute appressed setae) ; a round green glandulose spot on 

 each side of the mid-rib, and towards its base : petiole short. 

 Racemes simple, axillary, in general longer than the leaf: 

 peduncles angulose; pedicels 1-flowered, ^ of an inch in length, 

 jointed near the base.' An ovate deciduous bractea at the 

 insertion of each pedicel, and a pair of minute ovate bracteoles 

 (glandulose on the back and near the base) situated at the joint 

 of each pedicel. Flowers yellow. Calyx at the base 8-glan- 

 dulose: divisions blunt, ciliated. Petals with a long claw, 

 roundish, concave, with the margin plicato-lacerated. Stamens 

 10 : filaments subulate, monadelphous at the base. Ovary 

 conical, glabrous, style subulate, 3-gonal. Stigmata 3-fid. 

 Drupe size of a pea, red, sub-3-lobed : nuts 2-3, with the shell 

 thin, membranaceous. 



2. * Bunchosia nitida. Shining Bunchosia. 

 Leaves oblong acuminate glabrous eglandulose, 

 racemes simple shorter than the leaf. 



Malpighia humilis et minus divisa, foliis ovatis nitidis, 

 baccis durioribus, Browne, 230? M. nitida, Swartz, Obs. 180? 

 Jacq. Amer. 136 ? Cav. diss. VIII. 411. t. 239. f. 1. 



HAB. Limestone districts. Swartz. 



FL. Summer. 



A shrub, about 3 feet in height : branches decussating, erect, 

 terete, with the bark shining. Leaves decussato-opposite, pale 

 green, shining : petiole short. Racemes axillary, shorter than 

 the leaf, many-flowered: flowers yellow, size of those of the 

 MALPIGHIA OLABRA. Styles 3. Berry globose, subrotund, 

 3-lobed, 3-seeded, red : seeds oblongo-angulated, osseous. 



