456 NATURAL HUSTORY OF PLANTS. 



bracts 1-3-floral, often glandulosc ; pedicels articulate, 2-bracteolate. 

 {Antilles, vjarm South America}) 



11. Lophanthera A. Juss.^ — Calyx 10-glandulose. Petals im- 

 guiculate. Stamens 10 ; filaments free connate at base, glabrous or 

 hirsute; anthers glabrous ; cells cristato-alate. Germen 3-locular ; 

 branches of style free acute. Cocci of capsiile 3, each continuous at 

 base with a hollow swollen stipes, tardily dehiscent ; seeds sub- 

 globose ; testa membranous or crustaceous ; cotyledons of intlexed 

 embryo complanate. Other characters of Spachca. — Trees ; leaves 

 opposite entire papyraceous ; petiole glabrous or 2-glandulose ; 

 stipules axillary connate in paii's ; flowers ^ in compound cymifcroiis 

 racemes ; pedicels 1-3-floral ; bract lateral ; bracteoles oftener glan- 

 duliferous or glanduliform. {Guiana, North Brazil}) 



12. Verrucularia A. Juss.^ — Flowers nearly of Lophanthera ; 

 sepals 0, thickly 2-glandulose externally at base. Petals unguiculate, 

 imbricate; limbs unequal. Stamens 10; filaments dilately 1- 

 adelphous at base ; anthers introrse ; cells each bearing at the margin 

 a little below the apex a verriiculose glandule. Gormen and styles 

 of Lophanthera. Cocci of capsule 3, dehiscent ; seeds subglobose ; 

 cotyledons of embryo bent round the fold of crustaceous testa oblong. 

 — An erect shrub ; leaves opposite entire coriaceous glabrous glau- 

 ceseent ; stipules by pairs in 2 axillary 2-partite laminis, confluent 

 with sheath at base, connate ; flowers^ in terminal cymiferous racemes ; 

 pedicels articulate, at base 1, i?-l>racteolate. [Brazil?) 



13. Malpighia L.^ — Flowers nearly of Galphimia ; calyx 

 5-10-glandulose. Petals unguiculate glabrous ; limb denti- 

 culate, sometimes carinate, imbricate. Stamens 10, 2-seriate; 

 filaments glabrous; 1-adelphous at base; anthers introrse 



' Spec, about 6. Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. 19, t. 31. ' Spec. 1. V. glancophijUa A. Juss. he. eit. — 



— Griseii. Ft. Brit. W.-Iiid. 116.— Walp. Rep. Gkiseb. Mart. Fl. Bras. Midpigli. 27.— Walp. 



V. 187 ; Ann. ii. 199 ; Ann. vii. 469. Sep. v. 182 ; Ann. vii. iO^.—Banistcria glauca 



- Mnlpigh. CI, t. G. — Endl. Oen. n. 55SS '.— Maut. (e.x Mohl). 



B. H. Gen. 255, n. 19. ^ Gen. n. 572 (part.).— Adans. Fam. des PI. 



^ Yellow. ii. 388. — J. Gen. 253; Ann. Miis. xviii. 480.— 



* Spec. 2. H. B. K. Nov. Gci. H Spec. v. Lamk. III. t. 381.— PoiR. Diet. ir. 325 ; Suppl. 



173 (Galphimia). —Gi\.i»'Eii. Mart. Fl. Bras. iv. 5.— BC. Frodr. i. 517.— TviiF. Diet. Sc. Nat. 



Maljngh. 26.— Walp. Hep. v. 179; Ann. vii. Atl. t. l^i.—^. 3v&s. Malpigh. 4.,t. 4.— Spach, 



469. Suit, a Bnffnn. iii. 124.— Endl. Ocn. n. 5585.— 



' Malpigh. 65, t. 7.— Endl. Gen. n. 6689'.— Tayer, Orgnnog. 145, t. 23 B. H. Gen. 251, 



B. H. Oen. 255, n. 20. n. 2.— II. Bn. Fager Fam. Nat. 311. 



" Yellow, 



