MALPIGHIACE^. *39 



eight calycine glands, petals entire or fimbriate, and tlie wings of the 

 samaree diverging like a cross. In Triojrterys, the calyx also has 

 glands, the petals are very nearly entire, and each of the samaree 

 forming the fruit is provided with three wings, two above and one 

 below, confluent by their bases towards the edges. 



In the old world, tliere are analogous types represented by the 

 genera Aqndopterijs^ Triaspis^ and Flahellaria : the first Indian, and 

 the other two African ; all destitute 



of calycine glands. In Aspidop- Eiptage Madallota. 



terijSj sessile petals are seen, styline 



branches with dilated stigmatiferous 



apex, fruit formed of membranous, 



scutiform, elongated samarte, and 



opposite leaves without glands or 



stipules, Triaspis also has leaves 



without glands, and membranous 



scutiform samarœ ; but the petals are 



fimbriate and unguiculate, and the Fig. 442. Bipe carpel. 



subulate styline branches are flexuous, 



stigmatiferous towards the apex. With the same style, Flahellaria 



has a valvate calyx with unequal divisions, sessile, narrow, elongated 



petals, often lanceolate, and the scutiform samarse bear a small dorsal 



wing. The petioles are glandular. 



In Jiihclina, inhabiting Guiana, the flowers are very nearly the 

 same as in the preceding genera, but collected in quadi-iflorous false 

 umbels and provided with an involucre. Of the five sepals, four 

 only bear a large medial gland below and without, and the styliae 

 branches terminate in a stigmatiferous extremity dilated in the shape 

 of a reversed foot. The fruit is formed of thi-ee samaree bearing five 

 vertical dorsal wings ii'regularly cut and appearing to be each 

 divided into three hollows. The medial alone is a true cell containing 

 the seed. 



In Riptage (fig. 442), each samara bears only three wings, two 

 lateral and one dorsal. The calyx possesses only a single gland; 

 it is large, elongated, alternate with two sepals, and descends on the 

 apex of the pedicel to which it is adnate. Of the ten fertile stamens, 

 one only exceeds all the others in length. Hipfage is composed of 

 climbing shrubs of tropical Asia. Of the thi-ee styline branches, one- 



