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28. Malpighia horrida Small. 



Malpighia cocdgera ilicifolia Wright ; Griseb. Cat. PI. Cuba 43. 1866. 



Malpighia ilicifolia Wright; Niedzu. Gen. Malp. 18. 1899. Not M. ilicifolia Mill. 1768. 



Leaf-blades ovate, oval, obovate, or suborbicular in outline, spinose-lobed, mostly 1-2 



cm. long, notched at the apex, reticulate on both sides, ultimately glabrous, shining above, 



rounded or subcordate at the base, sessile or nearly so ; cymes short-peduncled, the branches 



finely pubescent ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm. long, the glands often less than one 



half the length of the sepal-body ; corolla pink, 16-19 mm. wide, the larger petals 8-9 mm. 



long ; larger anthers globose-ovoid ; drupes pyramidal, depressed, 5-6 mm. in diameter. 



Type locality : Cuba. 

 Distribution : Cuba. 



29. Malpighia coccigera L. Sp. PL 426. 1753. 



Malpighia coccigrya L. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 611. 1762. 



Malpighia cocafe'ra Cav. Diss. 408. 1789. 



Malpighia coccigera microphylla Niedzu. Gen. Malp. 19. 1899. 



Malpighia coccigera coccigrya Niedzu. Gen. Malp. 19. 1899. 



Leaf-blades oval or suborbicular, varying to ovate or obovate in outline, 1-3 cm. long 

 or less, obtuse, rounded, or emarginate at the apex, prominently sinuate-dentate, or indi- 

 vidually entire on some of the branches, shining and veiny above, dull beneath, glabrous 

 at maturity, broadly cuneate or rounded at the base, sessile or nearly so ; cymes short- 

 peduncled, the branches glabrous or nearly so; sepals oblong or ovate-oblong, 3-3.5 mm. 

 long, the glands fully one half the length of the sepal-body ; corolla pink, nearly 2 cm. 

 wide, the larger petals 9-10 mm. long ; larger anthers oblong ; drupes subglobose, 9-10 

 mm. in diameter, red. 



Type locality : Tropical America. 



Distribution : Cuba and Hispaniola to Martinique and St. Lucia. 



Illustrations : Jacq. Ic. Rar. pi. 470 ; Cav. Diss. pi. 235, f. 2. 



Doubtful species 

 Malpighia grandifolia Jacq. Enum. PL Carib. 21 : 1760. 

 Malpighia pamifolia A. Juss. Arch. Mus. Paris 3 : 268. 1843. 



21. BUNCHOSIA Rich.; A. Juss. Ann. Mus. Paris 18 : 481. 1811. 



Shrubs or trees, with glabrous or thinly or densely pubescent foliage. Leaves opposite, 

 usually with glands on the blades or the petioles ; blades broad or narrow, usually thickish, 

 entire, sometimes prominently veined, mostly petioled. Flowers in narrow or widely 

 branched panicles. Calyx with 8 or 10 glands, persistent, slightly accrescent, the glands 

 large, sessile. Corolla yellow or white ; petals 5, the blades broad, sometimes wider than 

 long, concave, undulate or toothed. Stamens 10, all anther-bearing ; filaments rather long, 

 but well united, glabrous ; anthers short, sometimes subglobose, the connective usually 

 inconspicuous. Ovary 2-3-lobed. Styles united. Stigma 3-lobed, capitate or disk-like. 

 Drupe ovoid, globose or reniform, yellow, red, orange, scarlet, or brown. 



Type species, Malpighia odorata Jacq. 



Corolla relatively small, mostly 12-15 nim. broad. 

 Anther-connective yellow. 



Inner petal spatulate, markedly different from the others. 



Gynoecium glabrous. 1. B. Swarlziana. 



Gynoecium pubescent. 



Leaves sparingly pubescent when young, glabrous at maturity. 



Petals with long blades. 2. B. gracilis. 



Petals with suborbicular blades. 3. B. gitatemalensis. 



Leaves permanently copiously pubescent. 



Corolla mostly less than 15 mm. in diameter. 4. B. glauca. 



Corolla mostly over 16 mm. in diameter. 



Leaf-blades becoming glabrous or nearly so above. 



Leaf-blades lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, or oblong, 



acute. 5. B. lancifolia. 



Leaf-blades elliptic or oval, varying to ovate or obovate, 

 mostly obtuse. 6. B. biocellala. 



Leaf -blades copiously pubescent at both sides. 7. B. monlana. 



