MALPIQHIAOEJE. 457 



glabrous.^ Germen glabrous, 3-locular ; branches of style 3, free, 

 truncate at stigmatose apex. Fruit drupaceous; pyrense 1-3, scarcely 

 cohering, unequally 3-5-alate or cristate at back. Embryo of oblong 

 or ovoid seed exalbuminous straight ; cotyledons fleshy plano-convex ; 

 radicle superior short. — Small trees or shrubs, glabrous ortomentose; 

 "the hairs ^ sometimes stinging when pressed; leaves opposite; petiole 

 short ; stipules small vanishing ; limb entire or spinosely dentate ; 

 flowers ^ solitary or oftener in axillary and terminal, corymbiform or 

 umbelliform cymes. ( Warm America.^) 



14. Byrsonima L. C. Kich.^ — Flowers nearly of MalpigUa ; calyx 

 10-glandulous. Petals unguiculate glabrous. Stamens 1 ; filaments 

 barbate, 1-adelphous or free. Gynseceum of MalpigUa; branches 

 of style acute at stigmatose apex. A drupe ; putamen 1-3-locular. 

 Other characters of Malpighia. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing ; 

 leaves opposite entire ; stipules free or connate in pairs ; flowers in 

 terminal racemes. {Tropical America.^) 



15 ? Bunchosia L. C. Eioh.'''— Elowers nearly of Malpighia (or 

 Byrsonima). Germen 2-3-locular ; branches of style more or less 

 deeply coalite, truncate at stigmatose apex. Drupe 1-3-pyrenous ; 

 pyrensB ecristate nude. Kemaining characters of Byrsonima. — Trees 

 and shrubs, often scabrous ; ^ leaves opposite entire petiolate ; ^ 

 stipules short, sometimes connivent in pairs ; flowers " m axillary 

 racemes opposite oftener glanduliferous bracteate. {Warm America.'^'^) 



' Conceming the pollen of the genus and of W.-Ind. 114; Mart. Fl. Bras. Malpigh. i, t. 



all the Malpighiacca, exceedingly variable in 1-4. — Waip. Rep. t. 156 ; Ann. ii. 196 ; yii. 



form, see H. Mohl, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, iii. 466. 



236. ' J. Ann. Mus. xviii. 481. — K. 3v%a. MalpigJi. 



2 So called Malpighinceis. 76, t. 8. — DC. Prodr. i. 581. — Space, Suit, a 



3 White, rosy or red. JBufon, iii. 131.— Endl. Gen. n. 5586. — B. H. 

 < Spec, about 20. H. B. K. Nov. Oen. et Spec. Gen. 262, n. 3.— H. Bn. Tager Fam. Nat. 311. 



V. 145.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W.-Ihd. 116 ; Mart. — Malacmma Griseb. Linncea, xiii. 248. 



Fl. Bras. Malpigh. 31. — Tk. et Pl. Ann. Se. ^ From somewhat prominent lenticular glands. 



Nat. ser. 5, xviii. 307. — Sot. Beg. t. 96, 189, ' With very many axiUaiy leaf buds. 



56S.—Bot. Mag. t. 813.— Waxp. iJ«p. v. 150; i» White or yellow. 



Ann. i. 130 ; ii. 195 ; iv. 373 ; vii. 467. " Spec, about 20. Jacq. Amer. t. 177 ; Sort. 



« J. Ann. Mus. xviii. 481.— DC frodr. i. 579. Schcenbr. t. 104 i-Fragm. t. 83;' le. Bar. t. 469 



— A. JuSB. Malpigh. 17, t. 5. — Spach, Suit, a {Malpighia). — Ci.-v. Diss. t.2S8,239 {Malpighia). 



Buffon, iii. 128.— Endl. Gen. n. 6592.— B. H. — H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 153.— Tuiicz. 



Gen. 261, n. 1. Bull. Mosc. (1859), i. 266.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. 



« Spec, about 80. Cav. Diss. t. 237, 240, 241 W.-Ind. 115 ; Mart. Fl.' Bras. Malpigh. 30.— 



{Malpighia).— KvBis. &uian. t. 181-184 {Mai- Walp. JJ«p. v. 189 ; Ann. i. 130 ; ii. 199 ; vii. 



b).— H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec v. 147, t. 467. 

 446-449. — Griseb. Linneea, xiii. 250 ; Fl. Brit, 



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