XLIV. MALPIGHIACE.E. 



1. MALPIGHIA SERIES. 



"We shall study first m this series not the Malpighia, which have 

 given the name to it, as well as to the entire family, but a type dis- 

 tinguished by the independence of its carpels, as well as of the parts 

 of all its floral verticels. This may be, for example, a Pteranclra ^ 

 (fig. 427, 428), whose flowers are hermaphi'odite, regular and pen- 



. Pterandra jiyoidea. 



Fig. 427. Longitudinal section of flower (\) 



Fig. 428. Fruit (s). 



tamerous. Their receptacle surbased, and in form of a patulous 

 cupula, supports five sepals qiiincuncially imbricate. On the exte- 

 rior face two lateral glands are generally seen, here but slightly 

 developed, sometimes even hardly visible, but having, in many other 

 genera of this family, a very large development. The five petals, 

 alternate with the sepals, are provided with a short claw and a large 

 membranous imbricate limb. The androceum is composed of two 



' A. Jess, in A. S. H. Fl. Bras. Met: iii. 72 

 (part.) ; ilomgr. des Malpighiucees (1843), 62, 

 t. 6. — Enul. Gen. n. .JCSQ. — GuhsEi), Limiiea, 



xiii. 288.— B. II. Gat. 2.53, n. ^.—Eephjimcnlyx 

 Voii\..'m Flora (182.5), 183 (ex E.nbl.). 



