MALPIGHIACEJE. 151 



inferior and smaller, and also producing from the 

 dorsum 1-4 alaeform or subulaeform crests. De Cand. 



Petioles eglandulose. Name, from reroa. four, and tfngov a 

 wing. 



1. Tetrapteris citrifolia. Citron-leaved Tetrapteris. 



Leaves ovato-oblong acute glabrous, umbels axil- 

 lary peduncled, the two inferior wings of the fruit 

 half the length of the upper. 



Triopteris citrifolia, Gcertn. II. 168. t. 116 Swartz, FL 

 Ind. Occ. 857. Tetrapteris inaequalis, Cav. diss. t. 260. Te- 

 trapteris citrifolia, De Cand. Prod. I. 587. 



HAB . In mountain woods. Between Halberstadt and Gal- 

 loway House, Port-Royal mountains. 



PL. June, July. 



A shrub : branches long, trailing, ascending to a height by 

 throwing themselves over neighbouring shrubs and trees, sub- 

 terete, puberulous at their extremities. Leaves opposite, petio- 

 late, ovato-oblong, rounded at the base, acute at the apex, en- 

 tire, glabrous, membranaceous, nerved and veined, about 4 inches 

 long and 1 \ broad : petiole short, subterete, slightly channelled 

 above, puberulous. Umbels axillary and subterminal, pedun- 

 cled, shorter than the leaf, 4-flowered : peduncle compressed, 

 pubescent, bearing a pair of small leaves a short distance below 

 the leaf: pedicels subterete, thickened towards the flower, each 

 furnished with a minute bractea at the insertion, (forming as it 

 were a 4-leaved involucre for the umbel), and a pair, similar, a 

 little above the insertion. Flowers numerous, showy, yellow. 

 Calycine segments oblong, obtuse, incumbent; two of them 

 uniglandulose, 3 of them biglandulose at the base. Petals 

 clawed, roundish, slightly concave and slightly undulated to- 

 wards the claw. Stamens 10: filaments short, subulate, united 

 at the base: anthers incumbent. Ovaries 3, cohering, villous : 

 styles 3 : stigmata green. Carpels 3 ; the lower pair of wing* 

 half the length of the upper. Seeds solitary, subrotund, shining, 

 red. 



VI. BANISTERIA. 



Calyx 5-partite, externally at the base 8-10 glan- 

 dulose. Petals clawed, subrotund. Stamens 10, with 

 the filaments subulate and cohering at the base. 

 Styles 3, frequently expanded at the apex, into leaflets. 

 Carpels indehiscent, 3-1 -seeded, subdistinct, finally 

 separable, terminating in a simple membranaceous 



