MALPIOHIAOE^. 461 



laterally often cristate ; dorsal wing erect, the anterior margin thicker 

 than the superior sometimes appendiculate. Other characters of 

 Banisteria. — Scandent shrubs ; leaves oftener opposite, entire, denti- 

 culate or sometimes lobate, 2-formed ; petiole 2-glandulo8e ; stipules 

 small ; flowers ^ in corymbiform or umbelliform cymes axiUary to 

 twigs terminal ; pedicels articulate minutely bracteate and 2-bracteo- 

 late. {Tropical America.^) 



25. Heteropterys H. B, K? — Flowers nearly of Banisteria; 

 calyx oftener 8-glandulose. Stamens 10, unequal, germen and styles 

 of Btigmaphyllon (or Brachypterys). Samarse 1-3 ; dorsal wing (of 

 Banisteria) incrassate at inferior margin. — Shrubs, rarely scandent ; 

 leaves opposite, oftener entire and glandrdiferous beneath ; petiole 

 short; flower in subsimple or more or less ramose compound 

 racemes ; pedicels articulate, 2-bracteolate.* (Tropical and Southern 

 extra-tropical America?) 



26 ? Henleophytum Kaest.^ — " Calyx 5-partite ; glandules 8, 

 peltate stipitate. Petals 5, unguiculate. Stamens 10, i-adelphous ; 

 anthers glabrous. Germen pubescent ; branches of style capitate at 

 stigmatose apex. Carpels (immature) exalate, dorsally rotundate, 

 covered aU over with soft hairs ; seed . . . ? — A tortuous glabrous 

 shrub ; leaves opposite entire eglandulose ; flowers in slender axillary 

 racemes ; peduncles bracteate and 2-bracteolate above the base." '' 

 {Cuba.) 



27. Lophopterys A. Juss.'' — Flowers nearly of Banisteria ; calyx 

 oftener 4-glandulose ; glandules externally sub-basilar to middle of 

 sepals ample radiately-lameUate. Stamens 10. Germen 6-lobed ; 

 carpels sub-distinct ; branches of style subulate, obliquely truncate 

 at stigmatose apex. Carpels of fruit 1-3, solute from axis, ligneous, 

 shortly cristate at back to midrib, indehiscent. Other characters of 



' Golden. M. Brit. W.-Ind. 119; Mart. Fl. Bras. Malpigh. 



2 Spec, atout 40. DC. Prodr. i. 589 {Bonis- 57, t. 10-12.— Eeg. Ind. Sem. Sort. Petrop. 



teriaj.—GBiBUB. Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 118; Fl. (1858), 47.— Waip. JJ«p. v. 254; ^««. ii. 203 ; 



Wright. Cub. i. 168 ; in Mart. Fl. Bras. Mai- iv. 371 ; vii. 470. 



pigA. 36, t. 7.— Waip. By>. v. 202 ; Ann. i. ^ pi_ Golumb. i. 158. — B. H. Gen. 256, n. 23.— 



130 ; ii. 200 ; iv. 372 ; vii. 471. Henlea Gbiseb. Abh. Keen. Q-es. G-ostting. (1860), 



^ Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 163.— A. JuBS. Malpigh. 37. 



180, t. 14. — Sskca, Suit. St, Buffon, iii. 149. — ' A yariety not known to us ; it seems a ^owj's- 



Bndl. Qen. n. 5575. — B. H. &en. 256, n. 22. teria with exalate softly setose fruit. 



* A genus (with the following) distinguished ^ gloss. le. Sel. iii. 18, t. 29 ; Malpigh. 99, 



from the preceding only by the form of its in- t. 11. — ^Endl. Gen. n. 5677.— B. H. Gen. 255, 



florescence ; in flowers and fruit not difierent. u. 21. 



' Spec, about 75. Geiseb. Linncea, viii. 217 ; 



