MALPIOHIACEJB. 469 



or undershrubs, scandent or erect; leaves subalternate or 3-nate, 

 oftener opposite entire, generally small narrow or subericoid ; 

 flowers^ terminal and axillary, as in Janusia ; peduncles long. 

 [Southern Brazil.'^) 



47. Aspicarpa Lagasc.^ — Flowers 2-morplious; normal calyx 10- 

 glandulose. Petals fimbriate. Stamens 5, of which 2 are fertile, 

 higher connate ; 3 sterile, connate only at base, presenting deformed 

 anthers or partly or wholly anantherous. Carpels 3. Calyx of ab- 

 normal (very small) apetalous flowers eglandulose. Anther 1, rudi- 

 mentary. Germens 2 ; style rudimentary or 0. A solitary irregular 

 pyramidal 3-gonal nut, furnished at back with from 1-3 (or 0} 

 tufts ; embryo curved exalbuminous. — Erect slender shrubs ; twigs 

 slight, oftener pilose ; leaves opposite entire, generally sericeous ; 

 normal flowers in axillary or terminal umbelliform, sometimes few 

 or l-florous cymes ; abnormal, oftener solitary. ( Warm western North 

 America, New Spaing) 



48. Gaudichaudia H. B. K.^ — Flowers 2-morphous; calyx of 

 normal 8-lO-glandulose. Petals denticulate. Stamens 5, oppositi- 

 petalous, of which 2 are oftener anantherous ; filaments at base ] - 

 adelphous glabrous ; anthers short glabrous, Germens 3 ; style 1 , 

 gynobasic (or more rarely 2, 3, of which 1, 2, are smaller). Samaras 

 1-3, cristate at back and alate at margins. Abnormal flowers (very 

 small) fruit and other characters of Janusia. — Slender shrubs, often 

 volubile ; leaves opposite entire, eglandulose pubescent, often silky- 

 2-auriculate at base ; flowers ® solitary or oftener as in Janusia (or 

 Camarea) spuriously umbellate. [Western part of Central North 

 America, Mexico.''^ 



'Yellow; the inferior abnormal (very small). chimdia). — Waip. Sep. v. 348; Ann. ii. 206; 



2 Spec. 7, 8. Velloz. Fl. Mum. 19i ; iv. t. iv. 370. 



172 {Malpighia).—OcB.is^s. Linnwa, xiii. 187; ^ Nov. Gen. et Spec. y. 156, t. 446.— A. Juss. 



J^art. Fl. Bras. Malpigh. 104, t. 22.— Walp. Malpigh. 335, t. 21.— Endl. Oen. n. 5564.— 



Mep. V. 349 ; Ann. vii. 476. - B. H. Gen. 261, n. 45. — H. Bn. Payer Fam. 



^Nov. Gen. et Spec. 1.— A. Juss. Malpigh. 343, Nat. 312. 



t. 21. — B. H. Gen. 261, n. 46. — H. Bn. Payer « Orange or yellow ; the lower ones abnormal 



Fam.- Nat. 312. — Aeosmus Debtx. Cat. Sort. uncoloured. 



Par. (1829). ' Spec. 10-12. Hook, and Akn. Beech. Voy. 



c. 4, 5. A. EioH. in .Jfe/«. ^Ms. ii. 399, Bot. t. 57. — Schltl. Linueea, v. 217; x. 



i 13. — Benth. pi. Earlweff. 12 {Gaudi- 243.— BENTj£.P?.jra/-<MJ«j'.14.— WAip.iJep. 345. 



