MALPIOHIA ceo:. 453 



cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo thick, equal or unequal ; radicle 

 short superior. — Glabrous or in part sericeo-tomentose trees ; leaves 

 opposite petiolate ami^le oblong entii-e eglandulose ; stipules connate 

 in pairs in one axil ; flowers ^ in axillary racemes ; bracts and brac- 

 teoles of pedicels concave. [Tropical Brazil."^) 



3. Coleostachys A. Jtjss.^ — Calyx eglandulose ; sepals 5, accres- 

 cent after anthesis. Petals 5, shortly unguiculate. Stamens 10, 

 1-adelphous at base; tube barbate; anthers inappendiculate. Gynas- 

 ceum, etc., of Pterandra. " Fruit from 1-3 indehiscent (?) carpels, 

 conflated." — A tree ; leaves ample opposite oblong entire ; stipules 

 very long axillary, connate at base ; flowers in axillary spikes 

 sheathed at base with leaf reduced to connate stipules, subsessUe, 

 bracteate and 2-bracteolate. (Guiatia.*) 



4. Clonodia Geiseb.'^ — Flowers nearly of Acmanthera ; calyx 

 8-glandulose. Anthers inapjiendiculate. Carpels connate in 3- 

 locular germen ; styles thickish termiaal, truncate at stigmatose 

 apex. Fruit from i-3 nuts, depressed, obliquely rostrate, irregu- 

 larly cristate, finally solute. Other characters of Pterandra (or 

 Acmanthera). — Small trees ; branches lenticellate ; leaves opposite, 

 ovate or oblong, entire subcoriaceous ; petiole above the base 2- 

 glandulose ; stipules not conspicuous J flowers ° in terminal lateral 

 racemes ; bracts and bracteoles small, [North Brazil.") 



5. Echinopterys A. Juss.^ — Calyx eglandulose. Petals 5, sub- 

 equal or unequal pubescent. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous at base ; 

 anthers inappendiculate villose. Carpels 3 ; germens fi'ee, more or 

 less coalite ^ to internal angle (by means of indumentum) ; styles 

 terminal free, unequally dilated at stigmatose apex. Fruit 3 cocci, 

 indehiscent, at back imequally lappulaceo-echinate. — A shrub ; 

 leaves ■ small, opposite and alternate entii'e ; stipules setaceous ; 



' Rather large. 124). 



■ Spec. 1, 2. A. Ju63. Deless. Icon. iii. 19, t. ' Mart. Fl. Bras. Malpujh. 26. — B. H. Geii. 



30; Malpigh. 64, t. 6, fig. inf. doxtr. A. 253, n. U. 

 (Pterandra). — Walp. Ami. vii. 468. o " Ked." 



^ jl/a//<i^/(. 59, t. 5 (not Bentu.). — B. H. Ge«. ^ Spec. 1. C. verrucosa Gwbeb. loc. cit. — 



253, n. 10. Walp. Ami. vii. 469. 



■* Spec. 1. C. genipmfolia A. Juss. he. cit. 60. ' Malpigh. 88, t, 9. — B. H. Qeii. 264, n. 16. 



— Walp. Rep. v. 178. (Alien genera are C ' Germen single, 3-Iocular, according to most 



hypokuca and vestita Benth. Hook. Joitrn. vii. authors, but carpels certainly not connate. 



