MALPIOHIACE^. 461 



laterally often cristate ; dorsal wing erect, the anterior margin thicker 

 than the superior sometimes appendiculate. Other characters of 

 JBanisteria. — Scandent shrubs ; leaves oftener opposite, entire, denti- 

 culate or sometimes lobate, 2-formed ; petiole 2-glandulose ; stipules 

 small ; flowers ^ in corymbiform or umbellif orm cymes axillary to 

 twigs terminal ; pedicels articulate minutely bracteate and 2-bracteo- 

 late. (^Tropical America.") 



25. Heteropterys H. B. K.^ — Flowers nearly of Banistcria ; 

 calyx oftener 8-glandulose. Stamens 10, unequal, germen and styles 

 of Stigmaphfjllon (or Brachyptcrys). Samara3 1-3 ; dorsal wing (of 

 Banistcria) incrassate at inferior margin. — Shrubs, rarely scandent ; 

 leaves opposite, oftener entire and glanduliferous beneath ; petiole 

 short; flower in subsimple or more or less ramose compound 

 racemes ; pedicels articulate, 2-bracteolate.* (Tropical and Southern 

 extra-tropical America.^) 



26 ? Henleophytum Karst.'' — " Calyx 5-partite; glandules 8, 

 peltate stipitate. Petals 5, unguiculate. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous; 

 anthers glabrous. Germen pubescent ; branches of style capitate at 

 stigmatose apex. Carpels (immature) exalate, dorsally rotundate, 

 covered all over with soft hairs ; seed . . . ? — A tortuous glabrous 

 shrub ; leaves opposite entire eglandulose ; flowers in slender axillary 

 racemes ; pedimcles bracteate and 2-bracteolate above the base." ^ 

 {Cul>a.) 



27. Lophopterys A. Juss.'' — Flowers nearly of i?ams(fer/« ; calyx 

 oftener 4-glanduIose ; glandules externally siib-basilar to middle of 

 sepals ample radiately-lamellate. Stamens 10. Germen 5-lobed ; 

 carpels sub-distinct ; branches of style subulate, obliquely truncate 

 at stigmatose apex. Carpels of fruit 1-3, solute from axis, ligneous, 

 shortly cristate at back to midrib, indéhiscent. Other characters of 



'Golden. Fl. £iit. W.-Ind. 119; Mart. Fl. Bras. 



2 Spec, atout 40. DC. Prodr. i. 589 (B«h is- 57, t. 10-12.— Reg. Ind. Sem. Sort. Petrop. 



im«).— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 118; PL (1858), 47.— Walp. iffjj. v. 254 ; ^««. ii. 203 ; 



Wright. Cub. i. 168; in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mai- ît. 371 ; vii. 470. 



pigh. 36, t. 7.— Walp. Eep. t. 202 ; Ann. i. 6 Fl. Columb. i. 158.— B. H. Gen. 256, n. 23.— 



130 ; ii. 200 ; iv. 372 ; tu. 471. Keiilea Griseb. Abh. Kœn. 6es. Gœtting. (1860), 



2 Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 163. — A. Juss. MaJpiyh. 37. 



180, t. 14. — Spach, Suit, à Buffon, iii. 149. — ' A variety not known tous; it seems a .BaHÙ- 



EtTDL. Oen. n. 657Ô. — B. H. Oen. 256, n. 22. teria with e-xalate softly setose fruit. 



■* A genus (with the following) distinguished » (./^j^^ /^.^ {jgi_ ;;;_ ]^g^ (._ 29 ; Malpigh. 99, 



from the preceding only hy the form of its in- t. 11. — Endl. Oen. n. 5577. — B. H. Oen. 265, 



florescence ; in flowers and fruit not diS'erent. n. 21. 



' Spec, ahout 75. Gkiseb. L'umœa, viii. 217 ; 



