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DE CANDOLLE'S SYSTEM. 



35. MalpigUacea. Small trees or shrubs, sometimes 

 climbing. Leaves opposite, with stipules. Sepals generally 

 with 5 pairs of large oblong conspicuous glands on the out- 

 side. Petals 5, unguiculate. Stamens seldom fewer. Ovary 

 1, of S carpels, more or less combined ; ovules suspended. 

 Fruit dry or berried. Seeds without albumen. 



USES. Of no moment. The fruit of some Malpighias is 

 eaten in the West Indies under the name of Barbadoes 

 cherries. The bark appears to be astringent. 



TYPICAL GENERA. Fruit succulent, Malpighia. Fruit dry 

 and samaroid, Banisteria. 



Diplopteris paralias. 1. A flower-bud, showing the double glands of the calyx. 

 2. An expanded flower. 3. The carpels. 4. Ripe fruit of Ryssopteris timorensis. 



36. Sapindacete. Trees, or shrubs which often climb and 

 have tendrils. Leaves generally compound. Flowers un- 

 symmetrical, polygamous. Calyx imbricated. Petals hypo- 

 gynous, sometimes naked, sometimes with a doubled append- 

 age in the inside, imbricated. Disk fleshy. Stamens 8-10, 

 rarely 5-6-7. Ovary 3-celled, the cells containing 1, 2, 3, 

 very seldom more, ovules. Fruit sometimes capsular, some- 

 times samaroid, sometimes fleshy and indehiscent. Seeds 

 usually with an aril. Albumen 0. 



USES. Leaves and branches of some species of Magonia 

 and Paullinia poisonous. The fruit of some Euphorias or 

 Nepheliums, Pierardias and Hedycarya, eatable and agree- 

 able ; the former is the Longan and Litchi, which occasionally 



