MALPIGHIACE^. • 431 



Northern Brazil, have, on the contrary, calycine glands, like the 

 Acmanthera^ and anthers without appendages; but the style is 

 terminal, instead of being inserted towards the base of the internal 

 angle of the ovary ; the descendent ovule has its micropyle turned 

 laterally (on account of the tortion of the raphe), and the fruit is 

 composed of one or three acheenes with rugose ridges on the back. 

 The Echinopteris, Brazilian shrubs, have no calycine glands, their 

 anthers are inappendiculate and the styles terminal. The three 

 carpels are free in the ovary, and become achsenes traversed on their 

 dorsal line only by longitudinal ridges. 



The Heladcna, shrubs with slender branches, from Southern Brazil, 

 whose sepals bear stipitate glands, are very analogous to the pre- 

 ceding genera ; but, the three carpels being united below in a uni- 

 locular ovary, and becoming free only in the style, they form a 

 transition fr-om the Clonodia and the EcJdmpteris to the GalpUmia. 



The Galphimia (fig. 429-435), of Avhich some pretty species may 

 be seen in our gardens, have regular, hermaphrodite, and pen- 



Ga/pliiinia elrr/niii 



Fig. 431. Flower. 



Fig. 429. Floriferoxis 

 branch. 



Fig. 432. Longitudinal section of flower. 



tamerous flowers. On the slightly convex receptacle are inserted 

 five sepals, generally destitute of glands and imbricate in the bud ; 

 five alternate, unguiculate, imbricate petals, and ten stamens, the 



