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PLATE DCIV. 



MALPIGHIA 



POLYSTACHIA. 



Branching Malpighia. 



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CLASS X 



ORDER I. 



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DECANDRIA MONO-DITRIGYNIA. Ten Chives. 



One to Three Pointals. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Caltx 5-ph>llus basi extus poris binis mellife- 

 ris. Petala 5 subrotunda, unguiculata.* Fi- 

 Jamenta basi cohaerentia. Drupa 1-locularis 

 tripyrena, nueibus monospcrmis. 



Cup 5-leaved with two honey-bearing pores on 

 the outside at the base. Petals five, nearly 

 round with claws. Threads cohering at the 

 base. Berry fleshy of one cell with three 

 large bony seeds. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Malpighia foliis lanceolato-ovatis integerrimis 

 glabris nitidis, subtus prope basin biglandu- 

 losis ; racemis axillaribus et terminalibus ; 

 pedicellis uniglandulosis j floribus monogy- 

 fcis } stigmate capitate 



Malfig 



"a with lance^ovate, entire smooth 

 shining leaves, with two glands on their un- 

 derside near the base; bunches both from 

 the sides and tops of the branches ; flower. 

 stalks with one gland; style one; stigma 

 headed. 



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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1 . The empalement. 



3. The chives spread open. 



3. Seed-bud and pointals. 





This splendid Malpighia is one of that fine collection of WW T.wlL. j a 



before mentioned) made by Lord Seaforth when Governo, of R a S£f ^T™? p,a ° ts < we have 



on his return to England. From the catalogue f of "the rnLff ° CS ' 3 ? d brou S ht home with hi ™ 



Trinidad, and his Lordship tafom^W^ ^^2^1^^ ^ ^ » * native of 



from 



species 



last circumstance, however, it agrees with the M ! indulo^ If V T^ d ! stin S uish Jt - In the 



but is totally different both in the fk^s^U^^ThL^^ £? t IC °°f ' ^ 4 ° 9) 

 Boyton we were favoured with the specimen informs nf ,W : > • t b f Uj , eSq " from whose stov 'e at 

 out long slender twigs on all sides a^d SnniVllTf 3t " 1S 3 , shrub of ver y free 8«>wth, throwing 

 The bunches of flowers fir aJ^tnXeS^ SSff ** ° f ,he *"* t0 ***'* in due bou " d ° 

 leaf-stalks are thinly covered^! "uky bSS 1^rf^T™ a ^ be ^* rfA ^- The 

 younger leaves. 7 ' orae ot wnich aJs0 appear towards the base of the 





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