MA LPl (JHIA CEJi. 45 6 



lobes finally accrete patent. Petals fimbriate, shortly ungviiculate. 

 Stamens 10 ; filaments l-adelphous at base ; anthers inappendiculate 

 glabrous. Germen 3-locular, often 3-fid. at apex ; branches of style 

 free, obliquely capitate at stigmatose apex. Fruit girt at base with 

 accrete calyx ; cocci 3, dorsally costate ; testa of ovoid seed glabrous ; 

 cotyledons of cxalbuminous embryo recurved incumbent. — Climbing 

 shi'ubs, stellately pubescent; leaves opposite; petiole 2-glandulous ; 

 flowers ^ in corymbiform compound cymiferous terminal and axillary 

 racemes ; pedicels 2-bracteolate at the joint. {^Brasi.l.-) 



9. Lasiocarpus Liebm.'^ — " Calyx eglandulose, villoso with 

 flexuose hairs. Petals 5, unguiculate. Stamens 10, l-adelphous at 

 base ; anthers inappendiculate. Germen sericeo-lapj)ulaceous, 3- 

 locular ; styles 3, free filiform, contorted at stigmatose 2-fid apex. 

 Fruit globose covered with long (purple) and short branched hairs ; 

 carpels finally solute from axis ; pericarp membranous ; testa of 

 suborbiculate seeds hairy ; cotyledons of exalbnminous embryo folia- 

 ceous curved ; radicle straight superior. — An erect shrub ; leaves 

 opposite entire sericeous ; stipules scarious ; flowers (small) fascicu- 

 late; peduncles sericeous; bracts scarious. •■ " [Mexico}) 



10. Spachea A. Juss.'' — Calyx S-1 0-glandulose. Petals glabrous 

 unguiculate. Stamens 10 (of which 1-6 are sterile or sometimes 

 rudimentary); filaments hirsute, l-adelphous at base; anthers in- 

 appendiculate glabrous. Germen 2-3-locular ;'' branches of style 2, 3, 

 free, obtuse at stigmatose apex. Capsule 2-3-coccous, indéhiscent or 

 finally loculicidal ; seeds subglobose. — Small glabrous or sericeous 

 trees ; leaves opposite, punctulate or glandulose beneath ; stipules 

 axillary connate in paii's ; flowers ^ in terminal Sliberect racemes ; 



(not L.). — A. Ji'ss. Malpigh. 96, t. 10. — Endl. be referred to Saiiisleria?" (B. H. loc. cit.) 



Gen. n. .5583.— B. H. Ocii. 254, n. 13. "The grey sericeous twigs and fruit, fi-om the 



' Yellow. size olitaheTTy, of Piper iiiffrum." 



- Spec, about 3. Yshz^oz. Fl. F/iiui. 193; iv. ^ Spec. 1. L. salicifoUus Liebm. loc. cit. — 



t. 168 (jB(i«(sto-iB).— LiNDL. Hot. Meg. t. 1162. Walp. Ami. ix. 372. 



— Gtiis-e.n. Mart. il. Bras. Miiljjig/i. 33. — Walp. ^ Malpig/i. 71, t. 8. — Endl. Gen. n. 5591. — 



Jiep. V. 198 ; Anil. iv. 373 ; vii. 469. B. H. Geii. 255, n. 18. — Meckelia Makt. ex 



3 Viddensk. Meddel. Kjnbcii. (1853), 90. ~B. G-riseh. Fl. Bras. Malpigh. 25. 

 H. Gen. 255, n. 47. ' Cells in Meckelia 3. 



■* A genus unknown to us, " manifestly ^ Small, rosy or fleshy, 



anomalous, whether (from a.\is of carpels) to 



