UALPiaHlACEJE. 465 



lucid veuoso exstipulate; flowers' iu axillary aud terminal more or 

 less ramosely compound racemes ; pedicels articulate bracteate and 

 2-braoteolate. [Antilles, Mexico?) 



36. Aspidopterys A. Juss;^ — Calyx eglandulose. Petals 5, sub- 

 sessile entire. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous. at base; anthers glabrous 

 ovate. Germen 3-lobed ; branches of style glabrous, capitellate at 

 stigmatose apex. Samaree 1-3, furnished with shield-like ellipsoidal 

 ovate or suborbicidate membranous wing, sometimes very shortly 

 cristate at back. Other characters of Hirca. — Scandent shrubs ; 

 leaves opposite entire eglandulose exstipulate; flowers "* in scantily 

 or oftener richly ramose compound cymiferous racemes, terminal or 

 axillary; pedicels bracteolate. {Tropical Asia}) 



37. Triaspis Burch.^ — Calyx short eglandulose. Petals 5, un- 

 guiculate ; limb loug-fimbriate at base. Stamens 10; authors glabrous. 

 Germen 3-Iobed ; branches of style flexuose, stigmatose to subulate 

 apex. Samarte 1-3, winged at margin ; more or less cristate at 

 back with membranous venose wing. Other characters of Hirea. 

 — Shrubs oftener scandent ; leaves opposite or subopposite entire, 

 minutely glandulose or eglandulose ; stipules small or subfoliaeeous ; 

 flowers'' in umbelliform or corymbiform compound racemose cymes ; 

 pedicels rather long articulate ebracteolate. (Trojncal and South 

 Africa}) 



38. Plabellaria Cav.^ — Calyx gamophyllous eglandulose, valvate, 

 finally unequally divided into 2—1 lacinipe. Petals narrow lanceolate 

 sessile entire glabrous, subequal to calyx. Stamens 10 ; fllaraents 

 free filiform ; anthers oblong introrse glabrous. Germen hirsute, 

 3-lobed; branches of style 3, free subulate incurved, circinate in 

 bud, stigmatose within at apex. Samarse 1-3, produced at margins 

 to wide semiorbicular wings connate at base and apex, at back to a 

 short wing confluent with the marginal ones ; testa of ovoid seed 

 membrauous ; cotyledons of exalbumiuous embryo ovate, convolutely 



' Azure or violet. Thoms. Fl. Brit. Xi.d. i. 419. — Walp. iJf/). v. 



- Spec. 2, 3. Jacq. Obs. iii. 7, t. 56 {Ba- 297; ^n». Tii. 473. 



>nstenii).—CA\. Diss. 433, t. 260, 262.— H. B. K. « Trap. ii. 280, fig. 290.— A. Juss. Dcless. Ic. 



Nm'. Gm. et Spec. v. 167, t. 451.— Grised. Ft. Sel. iii. 21, t. 36 ; 3[alingh. 250, t. 17 (part.).— 



Brit. ?r.-/Hd. 120.— Walp. ifep.v. 299. Endl. Gen. n. 5569 (part.).- B. H. Gen. 259, 



3 Maljiigh. 254, t. 17.— Endl. O-en. n. 5570, n. 35. 



— B. H. GffH. 259, n. 37. ? white or rosy. 



* Wliite or yellow. 8 gpgc, g, w. Spec. ii. 743 (S'i'cœa) .— Schum. 



' Spec, about 15. Eoxb. Fl. Coromand. ii. and Thonn. Seskr. 243 (Mirrca). —Harv. and 



32, t. 160 [Triopteris) • Hort. Calc. 90; Fl. Ind. Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 232.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 



ii. 447 (£"(>«•«).— Bl. Bijdr. 225 (Sirœa).— 280.— Walp. &;). v. 295. 



Wall. PI. As. Rar. t. 13.— Hook. r. and ' Diss. 436, t. 264.— B. H. Oen. 250, n. 35. 



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