MALPIGHIA CEyE. 



439 



Miptage Madallota. 



Fig. 442. Eipe carpel. 



eight calycine glands, petals entire or fimbriate, and the wings of the 

 samarte diverging like a cross. In Triojrtert/s, the calyx also has 

 glands, the petals are very nearly entire, aud each of the samarse 

 forming the fruit is provided with three wings, two above and one 

 below, confluent by their bases towards the edges. 



In the old world, there are analogous types represented by the 

 genera Aspidopterys^ Triaspis^ and Flahellaria : the first Indian, and 

 the other two African ; all destitute 

 of calycine glands. In Aspidop- 

 terys^ sessile petals are seen, styliae 

 branches with dilated stigmatiferous 

 apex, fruit formed of membranous, 

 scutiform, elongated samarse, and 

 opposite leaves without glands or 

 stipules. Triaspis also has leaves 

 without glands, and membranous 

 scutiform samarte ; but the petals are 

 fimbriate and unguiculate, and the 

 subulate styliiie branches are flexuous, 



stigmatiferous towards the apex. "With the same style, Flahellaria 

 has a valvate calyx with unequal divisions, sessile, narrow, elongated 

 petals, often lanceolate, and the scutiform samarse bear a small dorsal 

 wing. The petioles are glandular. 



In Juhclina, inhabiting Guiana, the flowers are very nearly the 

 same as in the preceding genera, but collected in quacb'iflorous false 

 umbels and j)rovided with an involucre. Of the five sepals, four 

 only bear a large medial gland below and without, and the styline 

 branches terminate in a stigmatiferous extremity dilated in the shape 

 of a reversed foot. The fruit is formed of three samara? bearing five 

 vertical dorsal wings hregularly cut and appearing to be each 

 divided into three hollows. The medial alone is a true cell containing 

 the seed. 



In Hiptaye (fig. 442), each samara boars only throe wings, two 

 lateral and one dorsal. The calyx possesses only a single gland ; 

 it is large, elongated, alternate with two sepals, and descends on the 

 apex of the pedicel to which it is adnate. Of the ten fertile stamens, 

 one only exceeds all the others in length. Iliptaye is composed of 

 climbing shrubs of tropical Asia. Of the three styline branches, one 



