MALPIGHIACEJS. ibf> 



lobes finally accrete i^atent. Petals fimbriate, shortly unguiculate. 

 Stamens 10 ; filaments l-adelphous at base ; antbers inappeudiculate 

 glabrous. Germen 3-locular, often 3-fid at apex ; branches of style 

 free, obliquely capitate at stigmatose apex. Fruit girt at base with 

 accrete calyx ; cocci 3, dorsally costate ; testa of ovoid seed glabrous j 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo recurved incumbent. — Climbing 

 shrubs, stellately pubescent ; leaves opposite ; petiole 2-glaudulous ; 

 flowers ^ in corymbiform compound cymiferous terminal and axillary 

 racemes ; pedicels 2-bracteolate at the joint. (^Brazil.-) 



9. Lasiocarpus Liebm.^ — " Calyx eglandulose, villose with 

 flexuose hairs. Petals 5, unguiculate. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous at 

 base ; anthers inappeudiculate. Germen sericeo-lappulaceous, 3- 

 locular; styles 3, free filiform, contorted at stigmatose 2-fid apex. 

 Fi'uit globose covered with long (purple) and short branched hairs ; 

 carj^els finally solute from axis ; pericarp membranous ; testa of 

 suborbiculate seeds hairy ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo folia- 

 ceous curved ; radicle straight superior. — An erect shrub ; leaves 

 opposite entire sericeous ; stipules scarious ; flowers (small) fascicu- 

 late; peduncles sericeous; bracts scarious.^" (^Bfcxico.^) 



10. Spachea A. Juss." — Calyx S-1 0-glandulose. Petals glabrous 

 unguiculate. Stamens 10 (of which 1-6 are sterile or sometimes 

 rudimentary); filaments hirsute, 1-adclphous at base; anthers in- 

 appendiculate glabrous. Germen :2-3-loeular y branches of style 2, 3, 

 free, obtuse at stigmatose apex. Capsule 2-8-coccous, indehiscent or 

 finally loculicidal ; seeds subglobose. — Small glabrous or sericeous 

 trees ; leaves opposite, punctulate or glandulose beneath ; stipules 

 axillary connate in pairs ; flowers ^ in terminal suberect racemes ; 



(not L.). — A. Jtjss. Miiljjif/h. 96, t. 10. — Endl. be referred to JBankteriai" (B. U. loc. cit.) 



Gcu. n. 5583.— B. H. Oe». 254, n. 13. " The grey spriccous twigs and fruit, from the 



' Yellow. size of its berry, of Pijuw «!(/)7(»i." 



' Spoo. about 3. Velloz. Fl. I'lum. 193; iv. * Spec. 1. L. salicifullus Liebm. loc. cit. — 



t. 168 (BoH!'s<m«).— LiNDL. Hot. Reg. t. 1162. Wai.p. Ann. ix. 372. 



— Gv.iiif,n. Mart. Fl.Jirax. M<ll!ligh.^i^i.—^V^\.\^. ^ Afcdpiffli. 71, t. 8.— Endl. Gen. n. 5591.— 



Hep. V. 198; Ann. iv. S73 ; vii. 469. B. II. Gen. 255, n. IH.—Mec/ielia Maut. ex 



2 Fidden-ik. Meddel. Kjuben. (1853), 90.— B. Gkiseh. Fl. Bras. Mulpigh. 25. 



II. Oen. 255, n. 47. ' (-"ells in Meclaiia 3. 



^ A genus unknown to us, " manifestly ■' Small, roay or fleshy, 

 anoiiiiiluiis, whct]u:r (from axis of carpels) to 



