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19. MALPIGIIIACE^. 



Oedee 19. MALPIGHIACEiE. 



Trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves opposite, entire; stipules 

 small or 0. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, pedicels articulate, 

 usually 2-bracteolate. Calyx 5-partite, 1 or more segments, never all 

 with sessile glands, rarely without glands (Aspidopterys). Petals 

 clawed or not, often fimbriate, imbricate. Disk obscure. Stamens 10, 

 rarely fewer, hypogynous, equal or 1-2 much longer than the others ; 

 filaments free or connate below, anthers 2-lobed. Ovary 3-lobed, con- 

 sisting of 3 carpels, more or less combined ; ovules 1 in each carpel ; 

 styles 3, distinct or united ; stigmas capitate, punctiform or lateral. 

 Fruit of one or more winged samaras (Aeiatic genera). Seeds exal- 

 buminous, embryo curved or straight, radicle short, next the hilum ; 

 cotyledons foliaceous. 



Petals clawed, unequal. Calycine glands large. Samaras 



winged at the euds ... ... ... 1. Hiptige. 



Petals not clawed, equal. No calycine glands. Samaras 



winged all round ... ... ... 2. AspidopteryS. 



1. HIPTAGE, Gajrtn. 

 Climbing or sub-erect shrubs. Leaves entire, opposite, coriaceous ; 

 stipules 0. Flowers white, fragrant, in terminal or axillary racemes, 

 peduncles bracteate, articulate, with the 2-bracteolate pedicels. Calyx 

 5-partite, glands large, adnate to the pedicel. Petals 5, clawed, 

 unequal, fimbriate, 5th coloured. Stamens 10, 1 much longer than the 

 others ; filaments connate at the base. Ovary 3-lobed, lobes appen- 

 diculate, styles 1-2, circinate, the others rudimentary. Fruit of 1-2. 

 2-3 winged samaras. Seed subglobose ; cotyledons thick^ unequal. 



H. Madablota, Gsertn. Fruct. II. 169. t. 116; Fl. Br. I. 1. 418 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 33 ; Brandis For. Fl. 44. Banisteria hengalensis, Linn. 

 Gaertnera racemosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 2. 368. Haladwail, M. ; Bokhi^ uti- 

 mukta^ Vern. 



Throughout the hotter parts of India from Sind to Burma and south- 

 wards to Ceylon ; throughout the Bombay Presidency, near water-courses 

 and in moist places. Fl. Fr. Jany.-Feb.-Mch. Wood red in the centre, 

 moderately hard. Bark bitter. Contains about 8 per cent, of tannic acid. 



2. ASPIDOPTERYS, A. Juss. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire, without stipules. Flowers 

 in simple or compound, axillary or terminal panicles, peduncles bracteate, 

 jointed at the top, often minutely bracteolatC; small, yellow or white. 

 Calyx short, 6-partite, eglandular. Petals 5, equal, not clawed, quite 

 entire. Stamens 1 0, all perfect, filaments connate or distinct at the base. 

 Ovary 3-lobed, sides winged ; styles 3, glabrous ; stigmas capitate. 

 Fruit of 1-3 samaras, nucleus sometimes winged or crested at the 

 back, surrounded with the broad oblong or orbicular wing. Seeds 

 oblong, subterete ; embryo straight, cotyledons equal, radicle short. 



