MALPIOHIACEJE. 465 



lucid venose exstipulate ; flowers ^ iu axillary and terminal more or 

 less ramoscly compound racemes ; pedicels articulate bracteate and 

 2-bracteolate. (^Antilles, Mexico.') 



36. Aspidopterys A. Juss.^ — C!alyx eglandulose. Petals 5, sub- 

 sessile entire. Stamens 10, l-adelphous at base; antbers glabrous 

 ovate. Germen 3-lobed ; branches of style glabrous, capitoUate at 

 stigmatose apex. Samaroe 1-3, furnished with shield-like ellipsoidal 

 ovate or suborbiculate membranous wing, sometimes very shortly 

 cristate at back. Other characters of Hirea. — Scandent shi'ubs ; 

 leaves opposite entire eglandulose exstipulate ; flowers '^ in scantily 

 or oftener richly ramose compound cymiferous racemes, terminal or 

 axillary ; pedicels bracteolate. {Tropical AsiaP) 



37. Triaspis Buech.'' — Calyx short eglandulose. Petals 5, un- 

 guiculate ; limb long-fimbriate at base. Stamens 10; anthers glabrous. 

 Germen 3-lobed ; branches of style flexuose, stigmatose to subulate 

 apex. Samarte 1-3, winged at margin ; more or less cristate at 

 back with membranous venose wing. Other characters of Hirea. 

 — Shi'ubs oftener scandent ; leaves opposite or subopposite entire, 

 miuutely glandulose or eglandulose ; stipules small or subfoliaceous ; 

 flowers''' in umbelliform or corymbiform compound racemose cymes ; 

 pedicels rather long articulate ebracteolate. (Tropical and South 

 Africa.^) 



38. Flabellaria Cav.® — Calyx gamophyllous eglandulose, valvate, 

 finally unequally divided into 2-4 laciniee. Petals narrow lanceolate 

 sessile entire glabrous, subequal to calyx. Stamens 10; filaments 

 free filiform ; anthers oblong introrse glabrous. Germen hirsute, 

 8-lobed ; branches of style 3, free subulate incurved, cii'cinate in 

 bud, stigmatose within at apex. Samaree 1-3, produced at margins 

 to wide semiorbicular wings connate at base and apex, at back to a 

 short wing confluent with the marginal ones ; testa of ovoid seed 

 membranous ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo ovate, convolutely 



' Azure or violet. Thoms. Fl. Brit. Iial. \. 419.— Walp. TJi.^a v. 



"- Bpco. 2, 3. Jacq. Ohx. iii. 7, t. .^G [Tin- 297 ; Ann. vii. 473. 



nUteriu).—^^,'. Diss. 433, t. 260, 262.-11. B. K. " Ti-av. ii. 280, fig. 290.— A. Juss. Dikss. Ic. 



Nov. Gm. et Spec. v. 167, t. 451.— Ghiseh. FL Sel. iii. 21, t. 36 ; Ma/pit//!. 250, t. 17 (part.).— 



lirit. W.-Ind. 120.— Walp. Itiji. V. 299. Endl. Gen. n. 5569 (part.).— B. H. Gen. 259, 



:t Malpiijh. 254, t. 17.— Endl. Oct. n. 6570. n. 36. 



— B. II. Gen. 259, n. 37. ^ AVhito or rosy. 



■' White or yellow. » Spec. 6. W. Spec. ii. 743 (iTi'c^a) .—Schum. 



' Spec, about 15. Roxn. Fl. Cormnand. ii. and Thqnn. Seskr. 243 (jffiVaff).— H/nv. and 



32, t. 160 {Trioptcris) ; Ilort. Calc. 90; Fl. hid. Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 232.— Oi.iv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 



ii. 447 [Rir,ra).—Mi.. Bijdr. 225 {Ilircea).— 280.— Walp. Hep. v. 295. 



Wall. Fl. As. liar. t. 13.— Hook. p. and » Diss. 436, t. 204.— B. II. Gen. 259, n. 35. 



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