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Type collected at Sacoalco, Jalisco, July 16, 1892, M. E. Jones 27 (herb. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 236S96). 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



6. Malpighia glabra L. Sp. PI. 425. 1753. 



Malpighia nitida Mill. Card. Diet. ed. 8. Malpighia no. 5. 1768. Not .1/. nitida I.. 1762. 



Malpighia undulata A. Juss. Arch. Mus. Paris 3 : 266. 1844. 



Malpighia glabra guatemalensis Niedzu. Gen. Malp. 5. 1899. 



Malpighia glabra undulata Niedzu. Gen. Malp. 5. 1899. 



Malpighia glabra lancifolia Niedzu. Gen. Malp. 5. 1899. 



Malpighia glabra typica Niedzu. Gen. Malp. 5. 1899. 



Malpighia glabra antillana Urban & Niedzu.; Niedzu. Gen. Malp. 5. 1899. 



Leaf-blades elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate or ovate, 2.5-8 cm. long, acute or acuminate, 

 or sometimes obtuse, deep-green above, paler beneath, ultimately glabrous, gradually or 

 abruptly narrowed at the base, nearly sessile; cymes peduucled, the branches glabrous or 

 sparingly pubescent; sepals oblong to ovate-oblong, 2.5-3 mm. long, glabrous or with few 

 scattered hairs on the back, the glands usually fully one half the length of the sepal-body ; 

 corolla pink, 13-16 mm. wide, the larger petals 6-7.5 mm. long; drupes depressed-ovoid, 

 7-9 mm. long, slightly wider, red, often scarlet. 



Type locality : Jamaica. 



Distribution : Southern Texas, Mexico, Central America and the West Indies ; also in north- 

 ern South America. 



Illustrations : Cav. Diss. pi. 234, f. 1 ; Bot. Mag. pi. S13. 



7. Malpighia ovata Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1 : 310. 1895. 



Bunchosia parvifolia S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 24: 42. 1889. Not Malpighia parvifolia A. Juss. 



1844. 

 Malpighia Walsoni Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1 : 310. 1895. 



Leaf-blades ovate, varying to orbicular-ovate or oblong-ovate, 1-6 cm. long, acute or 

 obtuse, more or less pubescent, bright-green above, paler beneath, obtuse or rounded at the 

 base, very short-petioled ; cymes peduucled, the branches rather copiously pubescent ; 

 sepals oblong-ovate, 2.5-3 mm. long, bearded, the glands about one half the length of the 

 sepal-body ; corolla pink, 11-13 mm. wide, the larger petals 5.5-6 mm. long ; drupes much 

 depressed-ovoid, 8-9 mm. long, much w-ider, red. 



Type locality : Guaymas, Sonora. 



Distribution : Western Mexico. 



Illustration : Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1 : pi. 28. 



8. Malpighia Galeottiana A. Juss. Arch. Mus. Paris 3 : 261. 1844. 

 Leaf-blades oblong or oval, varying to ovate or more rarely to obovate,l-2.5 cm. long, 

 acute or obtuse at the apex, bright-green, and sparingly strigillose above at least when young, 

 paler and permanentlv strigillose beneath, abruptly narrowed or rounded at the base, short- 

 petioled ; cymes peduucled, the branches strigillose; sepals ovate to oval, 2.5-3 mm. long, 

 the glands fully one half the length of the sepal-bod}-; corolla pink, about 15 mm. wide, 

 the larger petals 6-7 mm. long, the blades lacerate-denticulate ; drupes much depressed, 

 about 1 cm. long, red. 



Type locality : Mountains of Oaxaca. 

 Distribution : Southern Mexico. 



9. Malpighia heterophylla Griseb. Linnaea 22 : 2. 1849. 



Leaf-blades ovate-lanceolate, 4-10 cm. long, acute at the apex, glabrous above, spar- 

 ingly strigillose beneath or ultimately glabrous, obtuse or rounded at the base, rather short- 

 petioled ; cymes peduncled, the branches finely pubescent ; sepals ovate, about 4 mm. long, 

 the glands about one half the length of the sepal-body; corolla about 15 mm. wide, the 

 larger petals 6-7 mm. long; drupes not seen. 



Type locality : Mexico. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



