262 BOTANIQUE. PLANTES VASCULAIRES. 
mate cristæformi. Ovaria 3 introrsum inter se coalita, 
dorso compresso-gibbosa. Samaræ 3 , aut abortu paueiores, 
apice in alam expansæ, margine postico-inferiori crassio- 
rein, lateribus convexæ, lævesque, rarissime cristatæ. 
Frutices americani, interdum scandentes. Folia oppo- 
sita integerrima, glabra vel pubentia, pube interdum me- 
tallicum renitente , subtus vulgo glandulifera, breviter pe- 
tiolata : slipulæ inconspicuæ. Inflorescentiæ aspectu variæ , 
in paniculas, corymbosve terminales, aut ad summa folia 
axillares, ex umbellulis racemulisve conflatos, foliorum su- 
premorum bracteæformium abbreviatione sæpius compo-' 
sitæ : pedunculi brèves, cum pedicellis vix longioribus 
articulati, ipsis lapsis persistentes basi bracteati, apice vel 
infra apicem opposite bibracteolati, rarissime nulli. Flores 
parvi, lutei, rarius rosei vel albi (cærulescentes in unica 
specie dicuntur). 
HETEROPTERYS LAURIFOLIA. 
Heteropterjs laurifolia, Ad. de Juss., Malpigh, 
Banîsteria laurifolia, L., Sp,, Swartz, Ob., 182. 
DC., Prodr,, I, p. 589. 
H. foliis obovalibus aut ellipticis, obtusis aut sæpius acumina- 
tis, coriaceis, glabris, reticulato-venosis, racemis paniculatis axil- 
laribus, ferrugineo-tomentosis, samaris basi ferrugineo-subto- 
mentosis. 
Crescit in pluribus insulæ Cubæ partibus. 
BANISTERIA , Jd, de Juss., FL Br. 
Banisterice sp., Kunth, DC. 
Calyx 5-partitus , laciniis 4 (rarissime omnibus) basi bi- 
glandulosis, interdum eglandulosus. Petala longiora, un- 
guiculata, limbo fimbriato dentatove glabro vel pubente, 
inæqualia. Stamina 10, omnia fertilia, inæqualia (calycinis 
