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together, furnished with imperfectly formed leaves, terete, puber- 

 ulous. Flowers showy, yellow, crowded at the extremity of 

 the peduncle, on pedicels half an inch in length. Calyx 5-fid, 

 with 4> of the divisions biglandulose, and the 5th naked. Petals 

 clawed. Filaments subulate. Ovary 3-gonal : styles spreading, 

 expanded at the apex. 



VII. HETEROPTERIS. 



Character the same as that of Banisteria, except 

 that the wing of the capsule is thickened from with- 

 out, instead of from above. De Cand. 



Name, from trign in another place, and trngov a wing. 



1 . * Heteropteris casrulea. Blue-flowered Heterop- 

 teris. 



Leaves ovate acute coriaceous glaucous shortly 

 petiolate, branches tuberculated, racemes axillary, 

 fruit slightly velvety at the base. 



Acer scandens foliis citri, flore cseruleo spicato, Plum. Spec. 

 18. ic. 14 Banisteria cserulea, Lam. Diet. I. 367. Cav. diss. 

 IX. 421. t. 243. Heteropteris caerulea, H. 13. et Kunth, V. 

 163. 



HAB. Stated to be native of this Island and of St Domingo. 



FL ? 



ORDER XLIII. SAPINDACE^:. 



Calycine sepals 4-5, either free or cohering at the 

 base ; aestivation imbricated. Petals usually of the 

 same number as the sepals, occasionally one less, very 

 seldom none ; sometimes naked, sometimes villous or 

 glandular in the middle, sometimes with an interior 

 petaloid scale. Stamens double the number of the 

 petals, inserted on a hypogynous glandular disk. 

 Ovary subrotund. Style 1 or 3. Fruit drupaceous 

 or capsular, 3-celled, or by abortion 1- or 2-celled. 

 Seeds solitary in each cell, attached to the axis, exal- 

 buminous : embryo with the radicle pointing towards 



