MALPIOHIACEJE. 459 



filaments glabrous, inserted in glabrous receptacle, l-adelplious at 

 base ; anthers glabrous. Germen 3-locular ; branches of style acute 

 at apex. Nut 1-locular, pyramidal, scarcely dehiscent or finally 

 opening at apex {Utiburdachia^), or spheroidal-conical, closed at apex 

 ( Carusia ^) ; embryo of exalbuminous seed thick ; cotyledons unequal ; 

 one surrounding the other ; radicle superior short. — Trees large or 

 small ; leaves ojjposite ample entii'e coriaceous, 2-glandulose at the 

 base beneath to the costa ; stipules axillary connate, deciduous ; 

 flowers in terminal 3-5-partite-ramose racemes ; pedicels short ; one 

 bracteole glandulose. {North Brazil?) 



II. BANISTEEIE^. 



20. Banisteria L. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; sepals 5 ; glandules 

 of calyx 6-10, or more rarely 0. Petals 5, equal or unequal ungui- 

 culate, imbricate. Stameus 10, equal or unequal ; filaments free or 

 1-adelphous at base ; anthers introrse glabrous or pilose ; connective 

 scarcely produced or excrescent at back. Germen 3-lobed, 3-locular ; 

 lobes gibbous at back, often hirsute, 1-ovulate; branches of style 3, 

 distinct, capitellate at stigmatose apex, finally truncate. Samarte 

 1-3, indehiscent, dorsally produced to a vertical rigid venose wing 

 thickened at upper margin, laterally nude or sometimes unequally 

 cristate or muricate. Embryo of oblong seed exalbuminous straight, 

 curved or inflexed. — Shi-ubs, often scaudent; leaves oj^posite or 

 sometimes 3-nate entire, often glandulose at base ; petiole short ; 

 stipules free or connate in a ring, often deciduous ; flowers in um- 

 belliforin cymes, oftencr 4-florous, sometimes collected in a compound 

 raceme; pedicels bracteate and 2-bracteolate. {Tropical America.) 

 See p. 434. 



21. Peixotoa Juss.^ — Flowers nearly of Baniateria ; calyx valvate 

 8-glandulosc. Stamens 5 fertile oppositipetalous ; 5 sterile alternate ; 

 filaments surmounted by thick glandules.^ Gyuajceum and fruit of 

 Banisteria ; dorsal wing confluent at base with unequal tufts of the 



■ Burdacliia Mart. JISS. (Es'dl.). 174, t. 13.— Exi>L. Gen. n. o578.— B. H. Gen. 



2 Mart. he. cit. 257, n. 30. 



' S])(;c. 2. Gkiseii. Mart. Fl. JSras. Malpir/h. * " Connective oxcrescent." Anthers glabrous 



22. — Walp. Rep. v. 177; Aim. vii. 468 iuappcndiculiitc. 

 * Fl. Bras. Mer. iii. 60, t. 172 ; Malpigh. 



