MALPIOHIACE^. 461 



laterally often cristate ; dorsal wing erect, the anterior margin thicker 

 than the superior sometimes appendiculate. Other characters of 

 Banisteria. — Scandent shrubs ; leaves oftener opposite, entire, denti- 

 culate or sometimes lobate, 2-formed ; petiole 2-glandulose ; stipules 

 small ; flowers ^ in corymbiform or umbelliform cymes axillary to 

 twigs terminal ; pedicels articulate minutely bracteate and 2-bracteo- 

 late. [Trojrical America.") 



25. Heteropterys H. B. 'K.^ — Flowers nearly of Banisteria; 

 calyx oftener 8-glandulose. Stamens 10, unequal, germen and styles 

 of Stigmaphijllon (or Brachypterys). Samarte 1-3 ; dorsal wing (of 

 Banisteria) incrassate at inferior margin. — Shrubs, rarely scandent ; 

 leaves opposite, oftener entire and glanduliferous beneath; petiole 

 short ; flower in subsimple or more or less ramose compound 

 racemes ; pedicels articulate, 2-bracteolate.* {Ti-opical and Southern 

 extra-tropical America.^) 



26 ? Henleophytum Karst." — " Calyx 5-partite ; glandules 8, 

 peltate stipitate. Petals 5, unguiculate. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous; 

 anthers glabrous. Germen pubescent ] branches of style capitate at 

 stigmatose apex. Carpels (immature) exalate, dorsally rotuudate, 

 covered all over with soft hairs ; seed . . . ? — ^A tortuous glabrous 

 shrub ; leaves opposite entire eglandulose ; flowers in slender axillary 

 racemes ; peduncles bracteate and 2-bracteolate above the base." ^ 

 {Cuba.) 



27. Lophopterys A. Ju.ss.'' — Flowers nearly of jBam's^ma ; calyx 

 oftener 4-glandulose ; glandules externally sub-basilar to middle of 

 sepals ample radiately-lamellate. Stamens 10. Germen 5-lobed ; 

 carpels sub-distinct ; branches of style subulate, obliquely truncate 

 at stigmatose apex. Carpels of fruit 1-3, solute from axis, ligneous, 

 shortly cristate at back to midi'ib, indehiscent. Other characters of 



1 Golden. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind.Wi; Mart. Fl. Bras. Malpigh. 



2 Spec, about 40. DC. Prodr. i. 689 {Baitis- 57, t. 10-12.— Eeo. Iiid. San. Sort. Petrop. 

 <ma).— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Tiid. 118; PL (1858), 47.— Walp. ijep. v. 254; -4w«. ii. 203 ; 

 Wright. Cub. i. 168; in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mai- iv. 371 ; vii. 470. 



pigh. 36, t. 7.— Walp. Pcji. v. 202 ; Ann. i. 6 7,7, Culumb. i. 158.— B. H. Gen. 256, n. 23.— 



130 ; ii. 200 ; iv. 372 ; vii. 471. Menlm Gkiseb. Abh. Keen. Ocs. Oatting. (1860), 



3 Nov. Oen. et Spec. v. 103. — A. Juss. Malpigh. 37. 



180, t. 14. — Spach, 5«i(. d Bnffon, iii. 149. — ' A variety not known tous; it seoma a.Cn«('5- 



Endl. Oen. n. 6575. — B. II. Oen. 256, n. 22. tcria with oxalate softly sotoso fruit. 



* A genus (with the following) distinguished ^ elcss. Ic. Sel. iii. 18, t. 29 ; Malpigh. 99, 



from the preceding only by the form of its in- t. 11. — Endl. Oen. n. 6677. — B. II. Oen. 266, 



florescence ; in flowers and fruit not different. n. 21. 



' Spec, about 75. GiiisEi). Linnmn, viii. 217 ; 



