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or undershiubs, scandent or erect. ; leaves suhalternate or "-nate, 

 oftener opposite entire, generally small narrow or suboricoid ; 

 flowers^ terminal and axillary, as in Janusia ; peduncles long. 

 [Southern Brazil.'^) 



47. Aspicarpa Lagasc.^ — Flowers 2- morphous ; normal calyx 10- 

 glandvdose. Petals fimbriate. Stamens 5, of which 2 are fertile, 

 higher connate ; 3 sterile, connate only at base, presenting deformed 

 anthers or partly or wholly anautherous. Carpels 3. Calyx of ab- 

 normal (very small) apetalous flowers egiandulose. Anther 1, rudi- 

 mentary. Germens 2 ; style rudimentary or 0. A solitary irregular 

 pyramidal 3-gonal nut, furnished at back with from 1-3 (or 0) 

 tufts ; embryo curved exalbuminous. — Erect slender shrubs ; twigs 

 slight, oftener pilose ; leaves opposite entire, generally sericeous ; 

 normal flowers in axillary or terminal umbelliform, sometimes few 

 or 1-florous cymes ; abnormal, oftener solitary. ( Warm western North 

 America^ New Spaing) 



48. Gaudichaudia H. B. K.^ — Flowers 2-morphous; calyx of 

 normal 8-10-glandulose. Petals denticulate. Stamens 5, oppositi- 

 petalous, of which 2 are oftener anantherous ; filaments at base 1 - 

 adelphous glabrous ; anthers short glabrous. Germens 3 ; style 1 , 

 gynobasic (or more rarely 2, 3, of which 1, 2, are smaller). Samaras 

 1-3, cristate at back and alate at margins. Abnormal flowers (very 

 small) fruit and other characters of Janusia, — Slender skrubs, often 

 volubile ; leaves opposite entire, egiandulose pubescent, often silky- 

 2-auriculate at base ; flowers "^ solitary or oftener as in Janusia (or 

 Camarea) spuriously umbellate. ( Western part of Central North 

 America, MexicoP) 



' Yellow ; the inferior abnormal (very small). ckaudia). — Walp. Rep. v. 348; An», ii. 206; 



^ Spec. 7, 8. Velloz. Fl. Flum. 194 ; iv. t. iv. 370. 



172 {Malpigliia). — Griseb. Linnœa, xiii. 187; ^ Nov. Gen. et Spec. y. 156, t. 445. — A. Juss. 



31urt. II. Bras. Malpigh. 104, t. 22.— Walp. Malpigh. 335, t. 21.— Endl. Qen. n. 5564.— 



:Rep. V. 349 ; Ann. vii. 476. B. H. Gen. 261, n, 45.— II. Bn. Payer Fam. 



^Nbv. Gen. et Spec. 1.— A. Juss. Malpigh. 343,' JS'^at. 312. 



t. 21. — B. H. Gen. 261, n. 46. — H. Bn. Pai/ei- « Orange or yellow ; the lower ones abnormal 



Fam. Nat. 312. — Acosmiis Desvx. Cat. I£ort. uncoloured. 



Par. (1829). 7 Spec. 10-12. Hook, imà Arn. Beccli. Fo,/. 



* Spec. 4, 5. A. Rich, in ife'/». J/«s. ii. 399, Sot. t. 57. — Schltl. Linnaa, v. 217- x. 



t. 13. — Bentii. pi. Hartutg. 12 [Gamli- 243.— Benth. Pi. ifardiccy. 14.— Wait. TîiyA 345. 



