MALPIGHIACE^. 463 



pteryn i). Fruit 3-lobed ; lobes furnished at back with pencils of 

 hairs ; seed . . . ? — A white silky shrub, twigs subcruciately 

 virgate, sometimes subaphyllous ; leaves opposite or suboppo- 

 site, oftener very small lanceolate entire eglandiilose ; flowers^ 

 1-3 at summit of twigs; pedicels articulate, 2-bracteolate. [Western 

 Andlnlan Plata.") 



31 ? Ptilochgeta Tuecz.* — " Calyx eglandulose, 5-partite. Petals 

 . . .? Stamens 10; filaments capillary, 1-adelphous ; anthers small 

 glabrous inappendiculate. Germen 3-locular, silky at back with 

 feathery hairs ; styles 3, capillary flexuose, scarcely incrassate at 

 oblique stigmatose apex. Lobes of fruit 1-3, long-plumose at back 

 exalate ; ^ seeds curved ; cotyledons of uncinate embryo flat incum- 

 bent ; radicle terete." — A soft-silky shrub ; leaves opposite petiolatc 

 entù'e eglandulose; flowers axillary solitary or few; pedicels articu- 

 late.'' {Eastern BrasilJ) 



III. HIEEtE. 



32. Hiraea Jacq. — Flowers hermaphrodite ; calyx S-partite glan- 

 dules 8-10, or 0. Pelais 5, unguiculate reflexed, subentire or 

 denticulate. Stamens 10 (of 3Ialpighia), five of which are longer, 

 Germen 8-lobed ; branches of style free rigid, stigmatose at com- 

 pressed apex. SamarfB 1-3, produced on both margins to semi- 

 orbicular wings venose distinct or confluent at base and apex, at the 

 back also shortly membranously cristate. Seeds exalbuminous ; 

 cotyledons of uncinate embryo thick fleshy, oftener very unequal ; 

 radicle exserted. — Shrubs oftener scandent ; leaves. opposite or more 

 rarely alternate, entire eglandulose ; stipules various in form and 

 position or ; flowers in small umbelliform cymes often 4-florous ; 

 cymes 3, 4-nate axillary ; pedicels subsessile {Eiihirœa) or {Mascagnia) 

 in more or less ramose compound racemes terminal and axillary 



' styles not tubular (as said), but uncinate xxvii. i. 120 (Romcen). — B. H. Ooi. 238, n. 32. 

 at pediform apex and those of Stigmaphi/llon or ° Plumes subradiately open. 



Brachijpterijs quite reflexed. ^ " A single genus, not perfectly known, but 



- " Aurantiacis." most certainly malpighiaceous and clearly re- 



' Spec. 1. T. Usillo Hook, and Arn. foe. «<. teiable to Tiicomaria." (B.H.) 

 — Wai,f. Sep. y. 284. — Banisteria TJsillo Gill. ^ ^'pec.l. P. bahiensisTviiCz.loc. cit. — Walp. 



* In Bull. Mosc. xvi. (1843), 52; in Fhra, £ep.r.655. 



