MALPIGHIACE^. 103 



pterijs ^). Fruit 3-lobecl ; lobes furnislied at back with pencils of 

 bail's ; seed . . . ? — A -wbite silky sbrub, twigs subcniciately 

 virgate, sometimes subaphyllous ; leaves opposite or suboppo- 

 site, oftener very small lanceolate entire eglandulose ; flowers^ 

 1-3 at summit of twigs; pedicels articulate, 2-bracteolate. {Western 

 Andinian Plutu.^) 



31 ? Ptilochseta Turcz.'' — " Calyx eglaudulose, 5-partite. Petals 

 . . . ? Stamens 10 ; filaments capillary, 1-adelpbous ; anthers small 

 glabrous inappendiculate. Germen 3-locular, silky at back with 

 feathery hairs ; styles 3, capillary flexuose, scarcely incrassate at 

 oblique stigmatose apex. Lobes of fruit 1-3, long-plumose at back 

 exalate ; ^ seeds curved ; cotyledons of uncinate embryo flat incum- 

 bent ; radicle terete." — A soft-silky shrub ; leaves opposite potiolatc 

 entire eglandulose; flowers axillary solitary or few ; pedicels articu- 

 late." {Eastern Bm.dtJ) 



III. HIEE^. 



32. Hiraea Jac^. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx 5-partite glan- 

 dules 8-10, or 0. Petals 5, unguiculate reflexed, subentire or 

 denticulate. Stamens 10 (of Malpighia\ five of which are longer. 

 Germen 3-lobed ; branches of style fi'ee rigid, stigmatose at com- 

 pressed apex. Samarte 1-3, produced on both margins to semi- 

 orbicular wings venose distinct or confluent at base and aj^ex, at the 

 back also shortly membranously cristate. Seeds exalbuminous ; 

 cotyledons of uncinate embryo thick fleshy, oftener very unequal ; 

 radicle exserted. — Shrubs oftener scandent ; leaves opposite or more 

 rarely alternate, entii'e eglandulose ; stipules various in form and 

 position or ; flowers in small umbelliform cymes often 4-florous ; 

 cymes 3, 4-nate axillary ; pedicels subsessile {Euhinea) or {3Iascagnia) 

 in more or less ramose compound racemes terminal and axillary 



' styles not tubular (as said), but uncinate xxvii. i. 120 [Rosacea). — B. H. Oeii. 258, n. 32. 



at pediform apex and those of Stigmaphi/llon or ' Plumes subradiately open. 



Brachypteri/s quite reflexed. " " A single genus, not pcrfeotly known, but 



- " Aurantiacis." most certainly malpighiaccous and clearly re- 



' Spec. 1. T. Usilh Hook, and Arn. loe. cit. ferable to Tricomaria." (B.H.) 



— Walv. Jtep. V. 284. — Banistcria JJsiUo Gill. 'Spec. 1. P.ba/neiisis TvRCZ.loc.ciL — AValp. 



" In Bull. Mosc. xvi. (1843), 52; in Flora, i?t;;. v. 655. 



