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THALAMIFLORiK. 
It is probable that Swartz’s plant is identical with that which 
I have described as b. media ; and that the glandules of the 
leaves, and flower-stalks escaped his observation. According 
to Jacquin, whose specimens were collected at Carthagena, the 
style is single. 
3. * Bunehosia paniculata. Panicled Bunchosia. 
Leaves oblong cordate acuminate glabrous, racemes 
panicled axillary and terminal. 
Malpighia paniculata, Mill. Diet. No. 6. — Bunchosia pani- 
culata, De Cand. Prod. I. 582. 
HAB. ? 
FL. -? 
A shrub with purple flowers. 
IV. Triopteris. 
Calyx 5-partite; divisions biglandulose at the base. 
Petals subrotund, clawed. Stamens 10, with the 
filaments subulate, subcoherent at the base, alternately 
longer. Styles 3. Carpels 3, united at the base, 1- 
seeded, expanded into 3 wings, of which 2 are superior 
and 1 inferior, with sometimes a small dorsal crest. — 
De Cand. 
Name, from r^tg three, and vregov a wing. 
1. * Triopteris Jamaicensis. Jamaica Triopteris. 
Leaves oblong acuminate venose glabrous, petioles 
eglandulose. 
Banisteria capsulis trialatis, foliis ovato-acuminatis, racemis 
terminalibus, Browne, 231. — Triopteris Jamaicensis, Swartz, 
Obs. 183. 
HAB. Fences. — Swartz. 
FL. ? 
A twining shrub: branches terete, glabrous. Leaves shortly 
petiolate, veined. Racemes terminal, axillary, compound : divi- 
sions opposite, subdivided : flowers shortly pedicelled, small, 
blue. Styles 3 Swartz . 
V. Tetrapteris. 
The character of Triopteris , except that the car- 
pels are expanded in 4 oblong wings, 2 superior, 2 
