118 MALPIGHIACE^. 



fertile; ajipenda^ <fijie stigjna linear-wncmate, compressed; nnts costate laterally. — CaH). 

 Diss. 9. t. ZST.f. 1. — Banisterla ovata, Cav. ; caldtrapa, Sesv.; brachyptera, DC; aUophylla, 

 MchS. ! — ^A shrub, a few feet high, trailing With scandent brandies.— Has. Jamaica !, Maef., 

 Wils., in salt-marshes on the seaside, to Trinidad !, Sieb. Tr. 52 ; [Panama !, Guiana t, nor- 

 thern Brazil !]. 



6. STIGMAPHYLLON, Jus». 



Calyx %-^xaMsc. Stamens 6 fertile, 4 abortive. Styles 3 : stigmas produced exter- 

 nally into a leafy (or uncinate) appendage, or compressed-truncate. Samara with the wing 

 thickened on the superior margin. — Climbing shrubs; petioles biglandular ; flowers 2»joe- 

 duncled, umielliform corymbs : pedicels articulated usually below the middle ; petals 

 yellow, large (4'-''-5"' lon.g), fimbriate or dentate. 



Sect. 1. EvsTiGMAPHYLLON. — Jfpendage cf the stigma leafy. Pericarp crested trans- 

 versely, or rugose, or even, 



24. St. ciUatum, Jtiss. Leaves glabrous, cordate, entire or repand, ciliate with dis- 

 tant fringes: basilar lobes superincumbent: petiole 2-glandiJar at the top; "pericarp 

 rugose, without lateral crests : wingr triangular, blunt, rounded at the base, as broad as or 

 broader than the carpid."^COT. Diss. 9. i. 254. — Banisteria, Lam. — Hab, Jamaica (/fuss.) ; 

 [Brazil !]. 



25. St, adenodon, Juss. I Leaves glabrous above; pubescent beneath with scattered, 

 appressed hairs, cordate or sabcordate, pointleted, denticulate-repand, with the teeth glan- 

 dular : basilar sinus open (or obsolete) : petiole 2-glandular at the top^; samara. . . . . — 

 Nearly related to the following. — Hab. Trinidad 1, S^h. 



26. St. convolvnlifoHuiu, Juss. ! Leaves glabrous, subcordate-ovate or cordate; point- 

 leted, repand-entire, with distant minute glands on the margin : basilar sinus short or none : 

 petiole 2-gIandular at the top ; pericarp with several lateral crests : wing oblong, blunt : 

 inlerior margin straight, superior curved at the top, and with an obtuse appendage at the 

 bade. — Cav. Diss. 9. t. 256. — Banisteria, Cav. B. dichotoma, Mey.l — Hab. Trinidad !, 

 Or. ; [Martinique, Venezuela, Guiana!, Bahia!]. 



27. St. fulgens, Juss. I Leaves glabrous above, silvery beneath with silky down, cor- 

 date-rounded, mucronulate, repand-entire ; basilar sinus open : petiole 2-glandular a little 

 below the top ; peduncles divided ; pericarp with a single lateral crest : wing semiobovate- 

 oblong, blunt : inferior margin curved-obtuse-angled, superior straight, curved at the top, 

 and with a deltoid appendi^e at the base. — Cav. Diss. 9. t. 253. — Banisteria, Lam. B. 

 splendens, DC. — Pairs of prominent primary leaf-veins about 3-4. — Hab. S. Vincent !, 

 Ouild. ; [Venezuela!, Guiana!, Para!]. 



28. St. puberum, Juss. ! Leaves glabrous above, glaucescent beneath with minute 

 silky down, ojia^e or eUiijtical-oblong, pointleted, quite entire: petiole 2-glandular at the 

 top ; pericarp even, puberulous, without lateral crests : wing rectangular-divergent, tapering 

 from the broad base to the bluntish top : inferior margin straightish, superior obtuse-angled 

 at the base, which is twice as broad as the carpid. — ^Banisteria Mgens, DC. (non Lam.), 

 Mey. Usseg. J — Pairs of sti-ongei; primary le*f-veins about 7-8. — Hab. Dominica 1, Imr. ; 

 [Cuba I, Guiana !, equatorial Brazil !]. 



Sect. 2. B.£OFTEBis. — Appen(^e of the stigma compressed, truncate or uncinate. 

 Pericarp pluricostate lengthwise. 



Banisteria pauciflora, Kth., of Cuba, is a link between Bceopteris and Banisteria, having 

 the paralleljericarpal keels of the former, and the 4 transformed anthers of StigmapAyllon, 

 while in habit, inflorescence, and the capitate stigmas, it is a true Banisteria : the pedicels 

 however are articulated above the base. 



29. St. emarginatum, Juss. I Leaves membranaceous, glabrate above, glaucescent, 

 hoary with silky down beneath, oval-roundish or ovate, emarginate at both ends : petiolar 

 glands close la the leaf, sessile ; pedicels articulated and bibracteolate below the middle ; 

 stigmas compressed-truncate; pericarp costate : wing obovate-oblong, obtusate : inferior 



