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TRIBE II. BANISTERIE.E. Stamens 10, usually all perfect; anthers appendaged. Styles 

 normally 3, free. Fruit of 1-3 dorsally (not laterally) winged nuts or samaras on a conical 

 torus (rarely wingless or feathery). Usually climbers, with often alternate exstipulate leaves. 

 Heteropterys, Acridocarpus, Brachypteris, Stigmaphyllon, Eyssopteris, Banistcria, Peixotoa, &c. 



TRIBE III. HIRE^. Stamens usually all perfect. Styles normally 3, free. Samaras 1-3, 

 on a pyramidal torus, 1-7-winged, lateral wings broad. Usually scandent, with often alternate 

 exstipulate leaves. Tristellateia, Hiptage, Aspidopterys, Triopterys, Tetraptorys, Hircea, &c. 



TRIBE IV. GAUDTCHAUDIE^E. Stamens 8 or fewer, some or all of those opposite the petals, 

 and sometimes others, anantherous. Style 1. Carpels winged or not, usually pendulous from 

 a raphe-like thread. Erect or climbing ; leaves often alternate. Flowers often dimorphic. 

 Calyx 8-10-glandular. Gaudichaudia, Aspicarpa, Camarea, Janusia, Scliuannia. ED.] 



Malpiyhiacece are near EryHHroxyletB (which see), Acerinece and Sapindacecc ; they are separated from 

 Accrinctc by their glandular calyx, long clawed petals, monadelphous stamens, usually 3-merous fruit, 

 1-ovuled ovarian cells, curved ovules, and superior radicle. The affinity is still more close with Sapin- 

 dacces, from which they only differ in the inconspicuous disk and solitary abnormally-formed ovules. 

 Malpighiaceee mostly inhabit the plains and virgin forests of the southern tropic of America ; they are lesa 

 numerous beyond this region, rarer still in equatorial Asia, and very rare in Africa and Australia. 



Many Malpigliiaccai owe to the colouring matter and tannin contained in their bark astringent 

 properties, which are useful in various disorders, and especially in dysentery and intermittent fevers ; as 

 the different species of the American genus Byrsonima. The acidulous-sugary fruits of Malpiyhia urens and 

 ylabra are recommended as refreshing and antiseptic. 



XLIV. CORIARIE^E, Endlicher. 



PETALS 5, hypogynous, small, fleshy . STAMENS 10, hypogynous. OVAKY 5-lobed, 

 cells alternate with the petals, \-ovuled. STYLES 5, sti^matiferous throughout their 

 length. FRUIT of 5 carpels. EMBRYO scarcely or not albuminous. STEM woody. 

 LEAVES opposite. 



Unarmed SHRUBS, branches angular, the lower opposite or ternately whorled, the 

 upper opposite, often sarmentose ; buds scaly. LEAVES opposite, rarely ternately 

 whorled, ovate or cordate or lanceolate, 1-5-nerved, entire, glabrous, exstipulate. 

 FLOWERS 5 or polygamous, in terminal [or axillary] racemes ; pedicels opposite or 

 the upper alternate, bracteate at the base, and often 2-bracteolate. SEPALS 5, oval- 

 triangular, imbricate in bud, persistent, spreading, margins membranous. PETALS 

 5, hypogynous, shorter than the sepals and alternate, triangular, fleshy, keeled 

 within, accrescent, persistent. TORUS conical, fleshy, lobed. STAMENS 10, hypogy- 

 nous, free, or the inner adnate to the keel of the petals ; filaments short, filiform ; 

 anthers large, introrse, basifixed, dehisceiice longitudinal ; pollen very fine, subglo- 

 bose. CARPELS 5-10, free, oblong, whorled on the torus, conical, altercate with the 

 petals, 1-ovuled ; styles as many as carpels, free, thick, elongated, distant, entirely 

 covered with.stigmatic papillae; ovules pendulous from the top of the cells, anatro- 

 pous, raphe dorsal. FRUIT of 5-8 indehiscent cocci, embraced by the accrescent and 

 fleshy petals, compressed, oblong ; pericarp crustaceous, keeled on the back and sides. 



