172 MALPIGHIACER. | Plagiopteron. 
MALPIGHIACEA. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, oe or irregular. Calyx usually 
cnet, imbricate or valvate, one or more of the 5 segments 
furnished with a large pene. rely glandless altogether. Petals 
5, slasved or aestale, imbrie Disk obsolete. Stamens 10 or 
more, hypogynous or nearly “3 Pal or Bi ae filaments free or 
more or less connate at base; anthers 2-cell Ovary 3-cel 
with a solitary ovule in each cell ; ‘tipo 3, free or connate. 
Fruit a 1-3 winged samara or capsule ora drupe. Albumen none.— 
Trees or shrubs, often climbing, with opposite simple leaves. Stipules 
minute or none. Flowers in axillary or terminal inflorescences. 
* Fruit gi not winged . F - Malpighia. 
%* Fruit dry, samaroid, or Ne winged. : 
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Style 1 or rarely 2. Capsule confine into 3 unequal wings. : 
Calyx with a single vi e gland . Hiptage. 
Styles 3. Calyx glandless. Samara broadly ‘winged all round. As spidopterys. 
. OO Stamens numerous. Calyx minute, glandless . Plagiopteron, 
PLAGIOPTERON, Griff. 
Sepals 5, “minute. Petals as many, sepal-like, valvate. Sta- 
mens numerous, at the base united in a var short ring ; anthers 
small, almost globular. Ovary 3- celled, with 2 ovules in each cell: 
style wabalate, entire. Fruit dry, turbinate and truncate, Scots . 
on the back produced into as many spreading wings.—A scandent 
shrub with opposite: simple leaves. Stipules minute. Towel 
small, cymose, in panicles. 
, Griff.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 8399.—A scandent 
1. P. suaveolens 
shrub, the net parts minutely tawny stellate-puberulous ; leaves — 
ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at base, on a rather short 
- shortly tomentose petiole, 4-5 in. one cuspidate-acuminate, char- 
taceous, above glabrous except the puberulous nerves, beneath 
with minute stellate hairs; flowers small, v 
ry fragrant, © 
nse cymes forming almost thyrsoid shina Aer shortly 
greenish, in de’ 
eellate tomentose panicles in the axils of the leaves and y 
shorter than them ; sepals we cniniorme ; petals linear-oblong, revolute, 
densely puberulous outside ; ules indehiscent, the size of a 
large pea, truncate-turbinate, tetas stellate-puberulous, 3-celled, 
the wings 7-8 lin. long, narrow-oblong, blunt, narrowed at . 
-Has.—Tenasserim. 
HIPTAGE, Gaertn. 
eens Calyx 5 aren a land adnate to 
“Be =— Petals 5; oon, = lamas a , declinate, 
