MALPiaHlAGEJE. 466 



lucid venose exstipulate ; flowers ^ in axillary and terminal more or 

 less ramosely compound racemes ; pedicels articulate bracteate and 

 2-bracteolate. {Antilles, Mexico?) 



36. Aspidopterys A. Juss.^— Oalyx eglandulose. Petals 5, sub- 

 sessile entire. Stamens 10, l-adelphous af base; antbers glabrous 

 ovate. Germen 3-lobed ; branches of style glabrous, capitellate at 

 stigmatose apex. Samarse 1-3, furnished with shield-like ellipsoidal 

 ovate or suborbiculate membranous wing, sometimes very shortly 

 cristate at back. Other characters of Hirea. — Scandent shrubs; 

 leaves opposite entire eglandulose exstipulate ; flowers * in scantily 

 or oftener richly ramose compound cymiferous racemes, terminal or 

 axillary ; pedicels bracteolate. {Tropical Asia. ^) 



37. Triaspis Buech.^ — Calyx short eglandulose. Petals 5, un- 

 guiculate ; Umb long-fimbriate at base. Stamens 10 ; anthers glabrous. 

 Germen 3-lobed ; branches of style flexuose, stigmatose to subulate 

 apex. Samarse 1-3, wiaged at margin ; more or less cristate at 

 back with membranous venose wing. Other characters of Hirea. 

 — Shrubs oftener scandent ; leaves opposite or subopposite entire, 

 minutely glandulose or eglandulose ; stipules small or subfoliaceous ; 

 flowers''' in umbelliform or corymbiform compound racemose cymes ; 

 pedicels rather long articulate ebracteolate. {Tropical and South 

 Africa.^) 



88. riabellaria Cav.® — Calyx gamophyllous eglandulose, valvate, 

 finally unequally divided into 2-4 lacinise. Petals narrow lanceolate 

 sessile entire glabrous, subequal to calyx. Stamens 10 ; filaments 

 free filiform ; anthers oblong introrse glabrous. Germen hirsute, 

 3-lobed ; branches of style 3, free subulate incurved, circinate in 

 bud, stigmatose within at apex. Samarse 1-3, produced at margins 

 to wide semiorbicular wings connate at base and apex, at back to a 

 short wing confluent with the margiual ones ; testa of ovoid seed 

 membranous ; cotyledons of exalbumiaous embryo ovate, convolutely 



' Azure or violet. Thoms. M. Brit. Ind. i. 419.— Walp. Rep. v. 



2 Spec. 2, 3. Jacq. Oba. iii. 7, t. 66 {Ba- 297 ; Ann. to. 473. 



Hisfem).— Cat. Diss. 433, t. 260, 262.— H. E. K. '« Trav. ii. 280, fig. 290.— A. Juss. Beless. Ic. 



Nov. Gen. et Spec. v. 167, t. 451.— Griseb. Fl. Set iii. 21, t. Z&;- Malpigh. 250, t. 17 (part.).— 



Brit. W.-Ind. 120.— Walp. J?ep. v. 299. Enbl. Gm. n. 6569 (part.).— B. H. Qen. 259, 



3 Malpigh. 254, t. 17.— Endl. Bm. n. 6570. n. 36. 



— B. H. aen. 259, n. 37. ' ' White or rosy. 



* White or yellow. ^ Spgg_ g. W. Spec. ii. 743 (Jjraa).— Schtjm. 



' Spec, about 16. Eoxb. Fl. Coromand. ii. and Thonn. Beskr. 243 (Siiraa).— Harv. and 



32, t. 160 [Triopteris) ; Sort. CaU. 90 ; Fl. Ind. Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 232.— Oliv. Fl. Trap. Afr. i. 



ii. 447 {Siraa).—Bj.. Bijdr. 226 {Sircea).— 280.— Walp. ifep. v. 295. 

 Wall. PI. As. Sar. t. 13.— Hook. p. and " Diss. 436, t. 264.— B. H. Gen. 259, n. 35. 



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