MALPIGHI ACEiE. 
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1. Bunchosia media. Yellow -flowered Went- India 
Cherry. 
Leave oblongo-lanceolate acute at the base obtuse 
at the apex with a glandulose spot on each side of the 
mid-rib towards the base, racemes simple, pedicels 
jointed and furnished with 2 glanduliferous ciliated 
bracteas near the base, style S-gonal, stigma 3-lobed. 
Malpigliia media, Ait. Hort. Kew. II I. 103. — Bunchosia 
media, De Cand. Prod. I. 581. 
HAD. Road from Green Valley to Tweedside, Port-Royal 
jnountains. 
FL. April — May. 
A shrub about 8 feet in height, erect : branches terete, ash- 
coloured, papillose. Leaves opposite, petiolate, elliptic, atten- 
uated at the base, blunt at the apex, entire, obscurely nerved 
and veined, glabrous (but to the glass furnished with distant 
very minute oppressed setae) ; a round green glandulose spot on 
each side of the mid-rib, and towards its base : petiole short. 
Racemes simple, axillary, in general longer than the leaf: 
peduncles angulose; pedicels 1-flowered, ^ of an inch in length, 
jointed near the base. An ovate deciduous bractea at the 
insertion of each pedicel, and a pair of minute ovate bracteoles 
(glandulose on the back and near the base) situated at the joint 
of each pedicel. Flowers yellow. Calyx at the base 8-glan- 
dulose : divisions blunt, ciliated. Petals with a long claw, 
roundish, concave, with the margin plicato-lacerated. Stamens 
10: filaments subulate, monadelphous at the base. Ovary 
conical, glabrous, style subulate, 3-gonal. Stigmata 3-fid. 
Drupe size of a pea, red, sub-3-lobed : nuts --3, with the shell 
thin, membranaceous. 
2. * Bunchosia nitida. Shining Bunchosia. 
Leaves oblong acuminate glabrous eglandulose, 
racemes simple shorter than the leaf. 
Malpigliia humilis et minus divisa, foliis ovatis nitidis, 
baccis durioribus, Broicne, 230? — M. nitida, Sicartz, Obs. 180? 
— Jacq. Amer. 136 ? — Cav. diss. VIII. 411. t. 239. f. 1. 
HAB. Limestone districts. — Sicartz. 
FL. Summer. 
A shrub, about 3 feet in height : branches decussating, erect, 
terete, with the bark shining. Leaves decussato-opposite, pale 
green, shining : petiole short. Racemes axillary, shorter than 
the leaf, many-flowered: flowers yellow, size of those of the 
Malpighia glabra. Styles 3. Berry globose, subrotund, 
3-lobed, 3-seeded, red : seeds oblongo-angulated, osseous. 
