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inferior and smaller, and also producing from the 
dorsum 1-4 alaeform or subulaeform crests. — De Cand. 
Petioles eglandulose. — Name , from rsrga four, and ov a 
wing. 
1 . Tetrapteris citrifolia. Citron-leaved Tetrapteris . 
Leaves ovato-oblong acute glabrous, umbels axil- 
lary peduncled, the two inferior wings of the fruit 
half the length of the upper. 
Triopteris citrifolia, Gcertn. II. 168. t. 116. — Swartz, FL 
Inti. Occ. 857. — Tetrapteris insequalis, Cav. diss. t. 260. — Te- 
trapteris citrifolia, De Cand. Prod. I. 587. 
HAB. In mountain woods. Between Halberstadt and Gal- 
loway House, Port-Royal mountains. 
FL. June, July. 
A shrub : branches long, trailing, ascending to a height by 
throwing themselves over neighbouring shrubs and trees, sub- 
terete, puberulous at their extremities. Leaves opposite, petio- 
late, ovato-oblong, rounded at the base, acute at the apex, en- 
tire, glabrous, membranaceous, nerved and veined, about 4 inches 
long and 1^ broad: petiole short, subterete, slightly channelled 
above, puberulous. Umbels axillary and subterminal, pedun- 
cled, shorter than the leaf, 4-flowered : peduncle compressed, 
pubescent, bearing a pair of small leaves a short distance below 
the leaf : pedicels subterete, thickened towards the flower, each 
furnished with a minute bractea at the insertion, (forming as it 
were a 4-leaved involucre for the umbel), and a pair, similar, a 
little above the insertion. Flowers numerous, showy, yellow. 
C/ilycine segments oblong, obtuse, incumbent; two of them 
uniglandulose, 3 of them biglandulose at the base. Petals 
clawed, roundish, slightly concave and slightly undulated to- 
wards the claw. Stamens 10: filaments short, subulate, united 
at the base: anthers incumbent. Ovaries 3, cohering, villous: 
styles 3: stigmata green. Carpels 3 ; the lower pair of wings 
half the length of the upper. Seeds solitary, subrotund, shining, 
red. 
VI. Banisteria. 
Calyx 5-partite, externally at the base 8-10 glan- 
dulose. Petals clawed, subrotund. Stamens 10, with 
the filaments subulate and cohering at the base. 
Styles 3, frequently expanded at the apex, into leaflets. 
Carpels indehiscent, 3-1 -seeded, subdistinct, finally 
separable, terminating in a simple membranaceous 
