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TH ALA MI FLORAE. 
1. Malpighia urens. Stinging T Vest- India Cherry. 
Branches pubescent, leaves oblongo-ovate sub-acu- 
minate with the apex sharp rounded at the base gla- 
brous above appresso-setose beneath, racemes axillary 
solitary corymbose. 
Arbor baccifera, folio oblongo subtilissimis spinis subtus 
obsitis, fructu cerasino sulcato polypyreno, ossiculis canaliculatis, 
Sloane, II. 106. t. 207. f. 3. — Malpighia foliis oblongis liispidis, 
Browne, 229. — M. urens, Cav. diss. t. 235, f. 1. — Lam. 111. t. 
381. f. 1. — De Cand. Prod. I. 577. — M. Cubensis? H. B. fy 
Kunth, V. 145. 
HAB. Not uncommon: Port-Royal mountains ; Rocky point, 
at the East end of the Island. 
FL. April. 
About 6 feet in height: branches sub-erect, terete, with branch- 
lets sub-compressed, pilose with oppressed hairs which in the old 
branches are black. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolated, oblongo- 
ovate, subacuminate with the apex acute, glabrous above, 
appresso-setose with stinging yellow setse beneath : petiole very 
short. Peduncles axillary, short, bearing about 4 pedicelled 
purple flowers in a corymbose raceme shorter than the leaf : 
pedicels rather more than half an inch in length, arising nearly 
from the same point of the peduncle, filiform, alternate, furnished 
at the insertion with a minute bractea, and with a similar pair 
where it is jointed below the middle. Calycine divisions lanceo- 
late, setoso-pubescent. Petals purple, two of them rather larger 
than the rest. Filaments subulate, united for a short distance 
at the base. Styles longer than the stamens : stigmata green. 
2. Malpighia glabra. Glabrous Barbadoes Cherry. 
Leaves ovate acuminate acute at the base very entire 
glabrous, peduncles axillary umbellated. 
Arbor baccifera, folio subrotundo, fructu cerasino sulcato 
rubro polypyreno, ossiculis canaliculatis, Sloane , II. 106. t. 207. 
f. 2. — Malpighia fruticosa erecta, foliis nitidis oVatis acuminatis, 
floribus umbellatis, ramulis gracilibus, Browne , 230. — M. gla- 
bra, Willd. Sp. 731. — Mill. Diet. t. 181. f. 2. — Cav. diss. t. 
234. f. 1. 
HAB. Common on the lower hills. 
FL. September — November. 
A shrub about 5 feet in height : branches erect, towards 
their extremities compressed, pilose with appressed hairs. 
Leaves ovate, acuminate with the apex sharp, acute at the base, 
entire, obscurely nerved, glabrous, 2-3 inches in length. Stipules 
inter-petiolary, minute, subulate, hairy. Raceme umbellated, 
