450 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



bracts 1-3-floral, often glanduloso ; pedicels articulate, 2-bracteolate. 

 {Antilles, warm South America}) 



11. Lophanthera A. Juss.^ — Calyx lO-glaudulose. Petals iin- 

 guiculate. Stamens 10 ; filaments free connate at base, glabrous or 

 hirsute ; anthers glabrous ; cells eristato-alate. Germen 3-locular ; 

 branches of style free acute. Cocci of capsule 3, each continuous at 

 base with a hollow swollen stipes, tardily dehiscent ; seeds sub- 

 globose ; testa membranous or crustaceous ; cotyledons of inflexed 

 embryo complanate. Other characters of Sj)achca. — Trees ; leaves 

 opposite entire papyraceous ; petiole glabrous or 2-glandulose ; 

 stipules axillary connate in pau's ; flowers ^ in compound cymiferous 

 racemes; pedicels 1-3-floral ; bract lateral ; bracteoles oftener glan- 

 duliferous or glanduliform. {Guiana, North Brazil}) 



12. Verrucularia A. Juss.^ — Flowers nearly of Loplianthera ; 

 sepals 5, thickly 2-glandulose externally at base. Petals unguiculate, 

 imbricate; limbs unequal. Stamens 10; filaments dilately 1- 

 adelphous at base ; anthers iutrorse ; cells each bearing at the margin 

 a little below the apex a verruculose glandule, Germen and styles 

 of Lojjlianthcra. Cocci of capsule 3, dehiscent ; seeds subglobose ; 

 cotyledons of embryo bent round the fold of crustaceous testa oblong. 

 — An erect shrub ; leaves opposite entire coriaceous glabrous glau- 

 cescent ; stipules by paii's in 2 axillary 2-partite lamina?, confluent 

 with sheath at base, connate ; flowers'' in terminal cymiferous racemes ; 

 pedicels articulate, at base 1, iî-bracteolate. {BrazilJ) 



13. Malpighia L.- — Flowers nearly of Galphimia; calyx 

 -j-10-glandulose. Petals unguiculate glabrous ; limb denti- 

 culate, sometimes carinate, imbricate. Stamens 10, 2-seriate; 

 filaments glabrous; 1-adelphous at base; anthers introrse 



' Spec, aljout 6. Deless. Ic. Sel. iii. 19, t. 31. ? Spec. 1. V. ghiucophi/lln A. Juss. loc- cit. — 



—Griser. FI. Brit. W.-Ind. 116.— Walp. liej). Griseu. Mart. Ft. Bras. Malpujh. 27.— Walp. 



V. 187 ; Ann. ii. 199 ; Ann. vii. 469. Bcp. v. 182 ; Ann. vii. i^'i.—Banistcria glutica 



- Malpigh. 61, t. 6.— Endl. Om. n. 5388'.— Mart, (ex Mohl). 

 B. H. Gen. Ibb, n. 19. *> Gen. n. 572 (part.).— Adans. Fam. des VI. 



3 Yellow. ii. 388.— J. Gen. 253 ; Ann. Mus. xviii. 480.— 



* Spec. 2. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. Lamk. 111. t. 381.— PoiR. Diet. iv. 325 ; Suppl. 



173 (Gff/;;Ai»nm).— Griseh. Mart. Fl. Bras. iv. 5.— DC. Frodr. i. 5T!.—Tvup. Diet. Sc. Nat. 



Malpigh. 25.— Walp. Bep. v. 179; Ann. vii. All. t. 164.— A. Juss. J!/«/pi>/i. 4, t. 4.— Spach, 



469. Suit, à Biiffon, iii. 124.— Endl. Gen. n. 5585.— 



' Malpigh. 65, t. 7.— Endl. Gen. n. 5589'.— Payer, Organog. 145, t. 23.— B. H. Gen. 251, 



B. H. Qen. 255, n. 20. n. 2.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 311. 



6 Yellow. 



