4,34 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



placed half-a-dozen closely allied genera, also tropical American ; 

 Byrsonima, trees or shrubs, often climbing, whose drupaceous fruit 

 has a trilocular core, and whose stamens are hairy below, whilst the 

 styline branches are pointed ; Bunchosia^ whose stamens are com- 

 pletely glabrous, and whose styline branches, obtuse or truncate at 

 the apex, are, consequently, like those of Malpighia^ but united to- 

 gether to a variable extent, and also distinguished by drupes with 

 two or three kernels destitute of dorsal projections and ridges ; 

 Glandonia^ whose flower is that of Byrsonima^ but whose staminal 

 filaments are glabrous, and the fruit a unilocular and monospermous 

 nut ; Liacidia^ also having the flowers of Byrsonima., with ten glands 

 to the calyx, anthers whose cells are each surmounted by a small 

 tuft of hairs, pointed styline branches, two or tkree in number, and 

 a nucular fruit, with two or thi'ee cells ; Dicella, with nucular uni- 

 locular fruit, whose two styline branches are truncate at the apex, 

 and the stamens nearly always bristling with hairs. Moreover, the 

 petals are unequal and unlike ; making this genus, in this small 

 group, analogous to Vcrrucularia among the Spachece ; and the calyx 

 is accrescent after efilorescence. In BiirdacJiia, the dissimilar petals 

 of Dicella are observed, and the dry unilocular fruit, often conical, 

 has projecting vertical ribs ; but the calyx is not accrescent ; the 

 glabrous staminal filaments rest on a glandular annular disk, and the 

 styline divisions are pointed and subulate, instead of appearing trun- 

 cate at the apex. 



II. BANISTEEIA SEEIES. 



The fiowers of Banisteria} are constructed very nearly the same as 

 in Malpighia, with a calyx bearing eight or ten glands, more rarely 

 without glands ; five equal or unequal petals ; ten stamens arranged 

 in two verticels ; anthers inappendiculate, or provided with a dorsal 

 projection of the connective ; an ovary with tkree uniovulate cells, 



1 L. Gen. n. 573 (part.).— J. (?<■«. 252.- 134, t. 13.— Spach, Suit, à Bnfo», iii. 144.— 

 Lamk. Diet, i, 666; Suppl. i. 672 (part.).— Endl. Got. n. 6579.— H. Bn. Àj/er Fam. Nat. 

 DC. Prod,: i. 587 (i^art.).— A. Jiss. IjA^/,. 312.— B. H. Get,. 67, n. 29. 



