MALPIOHIAOEJE. 459 



filaments glabrous, inserted in glabrous receptacle, l-aclelphous at 

 base ; anthers glabrous. Germen 3-locular ; branches of style acute 

 at apex. Nut 1-locular, pyramidal, scarcely dehiscent or finally 

 opening at apex {Euhurdachia^)^ or spheroidal- conical, closed at apex 

 ( Carusia ^) ; embryo of exalbuminous seed thick ; cotyledons unequal ; 

 one surrounding the other ; radicle superior short. — Trees large or 

 small ; leaves opposite ample entii'e coriaceous, 2-glandulose at the 

 base beneath to the costa ; stipules axillary connate, deciduous ; 

 flowers in terminal 3-5 -partite-ramose racemes ; pedicels short ; one 

 bracteole glandulose. {North Brazil.^) 



II. BANISTEEIE^. 



20. Banisteria L. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; sepals 5 ; glandules 

 of calyx 6-10, or more rarely 0. Petals 5, equal or unequal uugui- 

 culate, imbricate. Stamens 10, equal or unequal ; filaments free or 

 1-adelphous at base ; anthers introrse glabrous or pilose ; connective 

 scarcely produced or excrescent at back. Germen 3-lobed, 3-locular ; 

 lobes gibbous at back, often hirsu^te, 1-ovulate; branches of style 3, 

 distinct, capitellate at stigmatose apex, finally truncate. Samaree 

 1-3, indéhiscent, dorsally produced to a vertical rigid venose wing- 

 thickened at upper margin, laterally nude or sometimes unequally 

 cristate or muricate. Embryo of oblong seed exalbuminous straight, 

 curved or inflexed. — Shrubs, often scandent; leaves opposite or 

 sometimes 3-nate entire, often glandulose at base ; petiole short ; 

 stipules free or connate in a ring, often deciduous ; flowei's in um- 

 belliform cymes, ofteuer 4-florous, sometimes collected in a compound 

 raceme; pedicels bracteate and 2-bracteolate. {Tropical America.) 

 See p. 434. 



21. Peixotoa Juss.* — Flowers nearly of Banisteria ; calyx valvatc 

 8-glandulose. Stamens 5 fertile oppositipotalous ; 5 sterile alternate ; 

 filaments surmounted by thick glandules.* Gyuajceum and fi'uit of 

 Banisteria ; dorsal wing confluent at base with unequal tufts of the 



' Burdaehia Mart. MSS. (En'iv..). 174, t. 13.— Endl. Gen. n. oSTS.— B. H. Gen. 



2 Makt. loc. cit. 257, n. 30. 



' Spec. 2. Gr-Ris-EB. Mart. Fl. Bras. Malplph. ° " Connective excrescent." Anthers glabrous 



22. — Walp. Rep. v. 177; Ajin. vii. 468 inappendiculate. 

 •• Ft. Bras. Mer. iii. 60, t. 172 ; Malpigh. 



