462 NATOBAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Brachypterys (or Banisteria). — A tree ; leaves opposite ample oblong 

 entire eglandulose, silky beneath ; flowers ' in terminal ramose com- 

 pound racemes ; sericeous brancbes and pedicels thick articulate 

 bracteolate. [Guiana?) 



28? Sphedamnocarpus Pl.^ — Flowers nearly of Banisteria;- 

 calyx eglandulose. Petals 5, shortly unguiculate subentire. Stamens 

 10, glabrous. Carpels 3, hirsute, coalite at axis ; branches of style 3, 

 free filiform ; apex stigmatose acute incurved. Samarse 1-8, 

 laterally inserted in pyramidal receptacle and finally solute from it, 

 produced above to a dorsal wing. — Scandent shrubs ; leaves opposite 

 or sometimes 3-4-nately verticillate, entire exstipulate ; petiole 

 glandulose ; flowers in umbelliform oftener terminal cymes, generally 

 4-florous ; peduncles bracteolate at base and 2-bracteolate* at apex. 

 {Tropical Western and Southern Africa.^) 



29. Acridocarpus Gtjill. and Peee.^ — Flowers nearly of Sphe- 

 damnocarpus ; calyx eglandulose or externally at base inconspicuously 

 and unequally glandulose. Stamens 10 ; anthers often cordate- 

 lanceolate glabrous. Germen 3-lcbed; styles 3, of which 2 are 

 oftener long filiform, circinate at acute stigmatose incurved apex ; 

 the third often short erect or iaconspicuous. Samarse 1-3, and other 

 characters of Sphedamnocarpus ; seeds often angular ; cotyledons of 

 curved embryo plano-convex.- — Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent; 

 leaves opposite or generally alternate exstipulate, often glanduliferous 

 beneath ; flowers ' in racemes or more rarely corymbs subsimple or 

 ramose terminal and lateral ; pedicels reflexed at apex, bracteate and 

 2-bracteolate. {Tropical., south, continental and east insular Africa, 

 Arabia, New Caledonia.^) 



30. Tricomaria Hook, and Arn.^ — Flowers nearly oi Banisteria ; 

 calyx 8-10-glandulose. Petals unguiculate unequal. Stamens 10 ; 

 anthers glabrous. Gynseceum of Stigmaphyllon or Brachy- 



' Rather large (yellow ?). iii. 156.— Endi.. Gen. n. 5676. — B. H.(?e«, 256, 



2 Spec. 1. L. sphndens A. Jbsb. he. cit. — ix. 24. — Anomalopteris Gr. Don. Q-en. Syst. i. 647. 

 Walp. Bep. V. 200. ' Golden, sometimes very odoriferous. 



3 B. H. Qen. 256, 988, n. 25. s Spec. 12, 13. Hook. p. Niger, 244, t. 24.— 

 ■• Closely allied to Acridoearpus. Haev. and Sond. Fl. Gap. i. 231, n. 1.— 

 6 Spec. 2, 3. A. J0ss. Malpigh. 236 (Aerido- Harv. Thes. Cap. 12, t. 19.— Oliv.' M Trap 



carpus, § 2).— Habv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 232, Afr. i. 277.— H.Bn. Adamonia, xi. 248. - Walp! 



n. 2, 3 [Acridocarpus).— Owy. Fl. Trap. Afr.i. Hep. v. 286 ; Ann. i. 131 ; ii. 204; vii. 471. 



280.— Walp. iSep. v. 288 {Acridocarpus, § 2). 9 ^jj. j^^^^^ jjj_ jjg^ j. ioi._A. Jxjml Malpigh. 



« Fl. Seneg. Tent. i. 123, t. 29.— A. Juss. Mai- 227, t. 15.— Endl. Om. n. 6684.— B. H. Gen. 



pigh. 228 (part.), t. 15. — Spaoh. Stdt. diBuffon, 268, a. 31. 



