STIGMAPHYLLON CILIATUM. 
(Ciliated-leaved Stigmaphyllon.) 
Class. Order. 
MONADELPHIA. DECANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
MALPIGHIACEiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-parted, each seg- 
ment furnished with two glands at its base. Petals 
five, unequal, unguiculate. Stamens ten, unequal and 
dissimilar. Anthers thick, and resembling glands. 
Styles three, distinct, the extremities spreading out 
like a leaf. Carpels three, indehiscent, one-seeded, 
ending in a simple membranous wing. 
Specific Character. — Plant a twining evergreen 
shrub. Leaves opposite, cordate, oblique at the base, 
smooth, ciliated, glaucous. Petioles with two glands 
at the top. Flowers large, umbellate, three to six in 
an umbel. Calyx glaucous green ; lobes fleshy, nearly 
orbicular; glands small. Corolla of five broad, fringed, 
and rounded petals, of a rich orange-yellow; claws 
long. Stamens with the filaments, awl-shaped. 
Authorities and Synonymes. — Stigmaphyllon Au- 
guste de St. Hilaire, Lindley in Bot. Register, 1659 ; 
S. ciliatum Lindley in Bot. Reg., v. 27, 154 descrip. ; 
Banisteria ciliata Lamarck Diet., 1, p. 369, Cr. Don in 
Syst. of Gar d. and Bot, 1, 644. 
The genus Stigmaphyllon was formerly associated with Banisteria, and contains 
some very handsome species, all climbers, but many are yet unknown in British 
collections. They are natives of Brazil, where in the woods and thickets they 
grow abundantly, and are certainly deserving the attention of collectors. 
Our present subject was introduced in 1840, and flowered for the first time at 
Sion House, in 1841, in the splendid collection of the late Duke of Northumberland. 
It has since bloomed with several other cultivators, and our drawing was made from 
a fine specimen in the possession of Messrs. Knight and Perry, nurserymen, 
King's Boad, Chelsea, in October, 1846. 
It is a handsome stove plant ; the leaves have a fine texture, with a glaucous and 
shining surface ; the flowers are large, produced in axillary umbels, and are of a very 
bright yellow. 
It grows freely in a light turfy loam, or in a mixture of loam, peat, and sand ; 
and cuttings taken from the ripened wood will strike root if planted in sand under 
a hand-glass in heat. 
The generic name is derived from stigma, a stigma, and phyllon, a leaf ; because 
the termination of the style becomes expanded into the form of a leaf. 
Malpighiace^e as at present arranged consists of forty-three genera ; many form 
