MA L PI G HI A OEM. 457 



glabrons.i Germeu glabrous, 3-lociilar ; branches of style 3, free, 

 truncate at stigmatose apex. Fruit drupaceous; pyrente 1-3, scarcely 

 cohering, unequally 3-5-alate or cristate at back. Embryo of oblong 

 or ovoid seed exalbuminous straight ; cotyledons fleshy plano-convex ; 

 radicle superior short. — Small trees or shrubs, glabrous or tomentose; 

 thehaii-s^ sometimes stinging when pressed; leaves opposite; petiole 

 short ; stipules small vanishing ; limb entire or spinosely dentate ; 

 flowers^ solitary or oftener in axillary and terminal, corymbiform or 

 umbelliform cymes. ( Warm America.'^) 



14. Byrsonima L. C. Rich.^ — Flowers nearly of Malpighia ; calyx 

 10-glandulous. Petals unguiculate glabrous. Stamens 10; filaments 

 barbate, 1-adelphous or free. Gynœceum of Malpighia; branches 

 of style acute at stigmatose apex. A drupe ; putamen 1-3-locular. 

 Other characters oî Malpighia. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing ; 

 leaves opposite entire ; stipules free or connate in pairs ; flowers in 

 terminal racemes. {Tropical America.^) 



15? Bunchosia L. C. Eich.'' — Flowers nearly of Malpighia (or 

 Byrsonima). Germen 2-3-locular ; branches of style more or less 

 deeply coalite, truncate at stigmatose apex. Drupe 1-3-pyrenous ; 

 pyreuDS ecristate nude. Eemaining characters of Bgrsonima. — Trees 

 and shrubs, often scabrous ; ^ leaves opposite entire petiolate ; " 

 stipules short, sometimes connivent in pairs ; flowers ^^ in axillary 

 racemes opposite oftener glanduliferous bracteate. ( Warm Jmerica.^') 



1 Concerning the pollen of the genus and of W.-Ind. 114; Mart. Fl. Bras. Malpigli. 4, t. 



all the Malpii/Ziiacere, exceedingly variable in 1-4. — Walp. Hep. v. 156 ; jîidi. ii. 195 ; vii. 



form, see H. Mohl, Aim. Sc. Nut. ser. 2, iii. 466. 



236. ^ J. Ann. Mus. xviii. 481. — A. Juss. Malpigk. 



- So called Malphjhiueem. 76, t. 8.— DC. Frodr. i. 581.— Spach, Suit, à 



3 Wiite, rosy or red. Biiffmi. ui. 131.— Endl. Gen. n. 5586.— B. H. 



•• Spec, ahout 20. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. Gen. 252, n. 3.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 311. 



V. 145. — Griseb. Fl. Brit. TF.-Iud. 116; Mart. — Malacmœa Griseb. Linnœa, xiii. 248. 



Fl. Bras. Malpigh. 31. — Tu. et Pl. Ann. Sc. ^ From somewhîit prominent lenticular glands. 



Nat. ser. 5, xviii. 307. — Bot. Jlty. t. 96, 189, ' AVith very many axillary leaf buds. 



5GS.— Sot. Mag. t. 813.— Walp. &;;. v. 150; i» White or yellow. 



Ann. i. 130 ; ii. 195 ; iv. 373; vii. 467. " Spec, about 20. Jach. Amer. t. 177 ; Sort. 



5 J. Ann. Mus. xviii. 481.— DC Frodr. i. 579. Scliœnbr. 1. 104 ; Fragm. t. 83; le. Bur. t. 469 



—A. Juss. Malpigh. 17, t. 6.— Spach, Suit, à {3Ialpighia).— Cay. Diss. t. 238,239 {Malpighia). 



Buffon, iii. 128.— Endl. Gen. n. 5592.— B. H. — H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 153.— TuROz. 



Gen. 251, n. 1. Bull. Mosc. (1859), i. 266.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. 



« Spec, about 80. Cav. Diss. t. 237, 240, 241 W.-Ind. 115 ; Mart. Fl. Bras. Malpigh. 30.— 



{Malpighia) Aubl. Guian. t. 181-184 {Mai- Walp. Bep. v. 189 ; Ann. i. 130; ii. 199; vii. 



pighia).~ll. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec v. 147, t. 467. 

 446-449.— Griseb. Linneea, xiii. 250 ; Fl. Brit. 



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