Malpighia, 637 



densely pubescent, the glands fully one half the length of the sepal-body ; corolla purple, 

 20 — 24 mm wide. the larger petals mostly 9 — H mm long; drupe not seen. 



Mexico (Type collected at Sacoalco, Jalisco, July 16, 1892, M. E. Jones 27 [Herb. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. 236896]). — Distribution: Known only from the type locality." 



Nota. Num a M. (i) mexicana Juss. diversa? 



3. M. diversifolia Brandegee in Zoe V. (1904) 104; Small in N. Amer. Fl. XXV. 

 2. (1910) 154. — "A spreading bush 1 — 2 m high, young stems slightly pubescent, 

 dark brown: mature leaves 4 cm long and wide, orbicular to broadly ovate, on pube- 

 scent petioles 2 mm long, rounded or the ovate ones bluntly pointed, hirsute below 

 and nearly glabrous above; younger leaves more hirsute upon both faces, especially so 

 upon the lower; stipules minute, hirsute; umbells 2 — 4-flowered; peduncles hirsute, 

 4 — 3 cm long, the pedicels 1 cm long, jointed nearer the base; bracts and bracteolae 

 minute; calyx lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, hirsute; petals rose-colored, 7 mm long, 

 more than twice the length of the calyx, deeply fringed-laciniate, with a claw 3 mm 

 long, and an orbicular blade 6 mm wide; stamens united at base i / 3 their length; 

 sepals with 2 large glands at base excepting one which has a gland on each side, at 

 the sinus; fruit depressed 4 5 mm wide. — Common about S. Jose del Cabo. The fruit 

 is called by the people "Manzanita", and without any special reason is sometimes eaten 

 by them. In the Flora of the Cape Region it is listed as M. Galeottiana? to which 

 species and M. retusa, by their characters, it seems to be nearest. Rarely some of 

 the leaves are retuse or may be somewhat lobed near the apex". 



Nota. Num a M. (1) mexicana var. ß. subglabrata diversa? 



4. M. elliptica Presl Botan. Bemerk. (1844) 25. — Ins. Trinit. (Ind. Kew. 4 895). 



5. M. Harrisii Small in Torreya XIII. (19 4 3); Fawcett et Rendle Fl. Jamaica IV. 

 (4 920) 228. — "Leaves glabrous, elliptical to broadly elliptical, apex obtuse, sometimes 

 rounded or acute, base rounded, somewhat leathery, 7 — 4 2 cm 1., 4 — 6.5 cm br. ; petiole 

 4 — 7 mm 1.; racemes clustered, subcorymbose, many-flowered, pedunculate; pedicels 

 jointed, lower Joint 5 — 6 mm 1., upper 2.5 — 4.5 cm 1., petals to 42 or 4 3 mm 1.; 

 apex of styles hammer-shaped. — Peckham Woods, Upper Clarendon, 2500'; Harris! 

 Fl. Jam. 4 4 480. — Slender shrub, 4 2' high. Sepals oblong, about 3 mm 1.; glands 6, 

 about 2 mm 1. Petals rose-coloured. Styles 2 larger than the third. Drupes not known." 

 (Fawcett et Rendle Fl. Jam.) 



6. M. heteranthera Wight Illustr. Ind. PI. (4 840) 4 38 tab. 49; de qua Jussieu in 

 Arch. Mus. III. p. 264 dixit: "Nonne 31. coccigerae conspecifica . . . habitu simillima, ut 

 flore, cujus petala stamina ovariaque more eodem inaequalia, in hortum Madrasensem 

 e patria incerta allata. Fructus tarnen tribus drupis basi tantum cohaerentibus constare 

 (qui in M. coccigera et congeneribus simplex triplici putamine fetus, teste Mülerio), sed 

 tantum videri et raro maturuisse, dicitur. Si revera constans nee anomala drupae triplicis 

 existentia, si putamen undique muricatum et embryo rectus (qualia in icone finguntur), 

 si planta Sinensis, ut suspicantur, nee Americana, forsan genus inde novum instituendum 

 quod auetor fere praenunciat, sed prius tarnen et severius recognoscendum." 



7. M. Neumanniana Juss. in Rev. Horticult. 2. ser. V. (4 846) 4 03 (ex Ind. Kew. 4 895). 



8. M. ovatifolia Small in N. Amer. Fl. XXV. 2. (4 9 4 0) 4 57. — "Leaf-blades ovate, 

 5 — 9 cm long, acute or slightly acuminate, prominently reticulate on both sides, pale- 

 green, glabrous above at least in age, permanently pubescent beneath with scattered 

 coarse yellow hairs, rounded at the base, very short-petioled ; cymes sessile, the branches 

 glabrous, at least atmaturity; sepals ovate to oblong-ovate, 2.5 — 3 mm long, glabrous, 

 the glands about one half the length of the sepal-body; corolla not seen; drupes 

 pyramidal, 12 — 14 mm long, red. — Type collected at Bayeau, near Port Margot, 

 Haiti, August 3, 1903, George V. Nash 74 (Herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.) — Distribution: 

 Known only from the type locality." 



9. M. pallens Small in N. Amer. Fl. XXV. 2. (4940) 457. — "Leaf-blades oblong 

 or elliptic, varying to broadest above the middle or below it, 5 — 9 cm long, obtuse or 

 acutish, undulate, light-green, scarcely paler beneath than above, glabrous above, usually 



A. Engler, Das Pflanzenreich. IV. (Embryophyta siphonogama.) 141. 42 



