MALPIGHIACEM. 469 



or imderslinibs, scandent or erect. ; leaves subalternate or o-nate, 

 oftener opposite entire, generally small narrow or subericoid ; 

 flowers^ terminal and axillary, as in Janusia ; peduncles long. 

 {Southerii Brazil.^) 



47. Aspicarpa Lagasc.^ — Flowers 2-morpliovi.s ; normal calyx 10- 

 glandulose. Petals fimbriate. Stamens 5, of which 2 are fertile, 

 higher connate ; 3 sterile, connate only at base, presenting deformed 

 anthers or partly or wholly anantherous. Carpels 3. Calyx of ab- 

 normal (very small) apetalous iiowers eglandulose. Anther 1 , rudi- 

 mentary. Germeus 1! ; style rudimentary or 0. A solitary ii-regular 

 pyramidal 3-goual nut, furnished at back with from 1-3 (or 0) 

 tufts ; embryo curved exalbuminous. — Erect slender shrubs ; twigs 

 slight, oftener pilose ; leaves opposite entire, generally sericeous ; 

 normal flowers in axillary or terminal umbelliform, sometimes few 

 or 1-florous cymes ; abnormal, oftener solitary, ( Warm tvestern North 

 Aiiio tea, Neiv SjMin.^) 



48. Gaudichaudia H. B. K.* — Flowers 2-morphous; calyx of 

 normal S-10-glaudulosc. Petals denticulate. Stamens 5, oppositi- 

 petalous, of which 2 are oftener anantherous ; filaments at base 1 - 

 adelphous glabrous ; anthers short glabrous. Germens 3 ; style 1 , 

 gynobasic (or more rarely 2, 3, of wliich 1, 2, are smaller). Samarce 

 1-3, cristate at back and alate at margins. Abnormal flowers (very 

 small) fruit and other characters of Janusia. — Slender shi'ubs, often 

 volubile ; leaves opposite entire, eglandulose pubescent, often silky- 

 2-auriculate at base ; flowers " solitary or oftener as in Janusia (or 

 Cajnarca) spuriously umbellate. ( Western ^mrt of Central North 

 America, 3Iexico.'') 



' Yellow; the inferior abnormal (very small). chaudia). — "Walv. Re}), v. 348; Ann. ii. 206; 



2 Spec. 7, 8. Velloz. Fl. Fliim. 194; iv. t. iv. 370. 



172 {Mnlpighia). — Grised. Limiaa, xiii. 187; ^ Nfw. Gen. elSjur.v. 156, t. 445. — A. Juse. 



Mart. II. ISrns. Maljiiy/i. 104, t. 22.— Wali-. Mnlpir,/,. 335, t. 21.— Endl. Oen. n. 5564.— 



Bej>. V. 349 ; Aiifi. vii. 470. B. II. Gen. 261, n. 45.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. 



^Nov. Oeii. et Spec. 1.— A. Jvss. Malpirjh. 343, Nat. 312. 



t. 21. — B. H. Gen. 201, n. 46. — H. Bn. Payer 6 Orange or yellow ; tholowcr ones abnormal 



Fnm. Xat. 312. — Acoitnus Desvx. Cat. Ilort. uncoloured. 



Par. (1829). ' Spec. 10-12. Hook, and Anx. Beech. Voy. 



'Spec. 4, 5. A. KiCH. in Jfe/«. J/;a. ii. 399, Bot. t. 67. — Schltl. Linucca, v. 217; x. 



t. 13. — Benth. pi. Hartweg. 12 {Gatuii- 243.— Benth. P^.ifrtJiif^. 14.— WAii-.^t;;. 345. 



