MALPiaHIAOE^. 466 



lobes filially accrete patent. Petals fimbriate, sbortly unguioulate. 

 Stamens 10 ; filaments 1-adelphous at base ; anthers inappendioulate 

 glabrous. Germen 3-locular, often 3-fid at apex ; branches of style 

 free, obliquely capitate at stigmatose apex. Fruit girt at base with 

 accrete calyx ; cocci 3, dorsally costate ; testa of ovoid seed glabrous ; 

 cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo recurved iacumbent. — Climbirig 

 shrubs, stellately pubescent ; leaves opposite ; petiole 2-glandulous ; 

 flowers ^ in corymbiform compound cymiferous terminal and axillary 

 racemes ; pedicels 2-bracteolate at the joint. {Brazil.^) 



9. Lasiocarpus Liebm.^ — " Calyx eglandulose, viUose with 

 flexuose hairs. Petals 5, unguioulate. Stamens 10, 1-adelphous at 

 base ; anthers inappendioulate. Germen sericeo-lappulaceous, 3- 

 locular; styles 3, free filiform, contorted at stigmatose 2-fid apex. 

 Pruit globose covered with long (purple) and short branched hairs ; 

 carpels finally solute from axis ; pericarp membranous ; testa of 

 suborbiculate seeds hairy ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo folia- 

 ceous curved ; radicle straight superior. — An erect shrub ; leaves 

 opposite entire sericeous ; stipules scarious ; flowers (small) fascicu- 

 late; peduncles sericeous; bracts scarious.* " [Mexico.^) 



10. Spachea A. Juss.^ — Calyx 8-10-glandulose. Petals glabrous 

 unguioulate. Stamens 10 (of which 1-6 are sterile or sometimes 

 rudimentary); filaments hirsute, 1-adelphous at base; anthers in- 

 appendioulate glabrous. Germen 2-3-locular ;''' branches of style 2, 3, 

 free, obtuse at stigmatose apex. Capsule 2-3-coccous, indehiscent or 

 finally loculicidal ; seeds subglobose. — Small glabrous or sericeous 

 trees ; leaves opposite, punctulate or glandulose beneath ; stipules 

 axUlary connate in pairs ; flowers ^ in terminal suberect racemes ; 



(notL.). — A. 3v&s. Malpigh. 96, t. 10. — Endi. be referred to Sanisteria?" (B. H. loa. eit.) 



Gen. n. 5583.— B. H. Gen. 264, n. 13. " The grey sericeous twigs and fruit, from the 



1 Yellow. size of its berry, of Piper «i^»'!««." 



' Spec, about 3. Ybia^oz. M. Flum. 193; iv. ' Spec. 1. L. salicifoUus Liebm. loo. cit. — 



t. 168 {Banisteria). — Lindl. Bot. Meg. t. 1162. Walp. Ann. ix. 372. 



— <j:^\&^^. Mart. M. Bras. MaVpigh.Wi. — Walp. ^ Malpigh. 71, t. 8. — Endl. Gen. n. 5591.— 



Bep. V. 198 ; Ann. iv. 373 ; vii. 469. , B. H. Oen. 255, n. 18. — Meckelia Mart, ex 



' Viddensi. Meddel. Kjoben. (1853), 90.— B. Gbiseb. Fl. Bras. Malpigh. 25. 



H. Gen. 255, n. 47. ' Cells in Meckelia 3. 



*A genus unknown to us, "manifestly * Small, rosy or fleshy, 

 anomalous, whether (from axis of carpels) to 



