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MALPIGHIA. fucata. 
Rouge-flowered stinging Barbadoes- Cherry. 
DECANDRIA Z7RIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Marricuim, Jussieu gen. 252. 
Div. II, Germen simplex. Fructus monocarpus. 
MALPIGHIA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 96. 
M. fucata, ramis glabris, foliis ellipticis nitidis subtér decumbenti-hispidis 
 “supér nudiusculis; florizus axillaribus umbellatim corymbosis: petalo 
summo submajore margine lacinulato. 7 
Arbuscula erecta, ramosa, glabra. Folia 4-uncialia ultrave elliptica, 
acuta, nitida, intense viridia, costato-nervosa, subtis hispidata aculeis setifor- 
mibus bicuspidatis Tipu urentibus fulvis longitudinalibus a medio affixis 
superficter folit para elo-approximat, supra tsdem obsolescentibus raritér 
consita. Pedunculi (éripartite ?) corymboso-umbellati, axillares, opposite 
brevissimi: pedicelli plurtmi, uni-biunciales, uniflori, bracteatim interstincti, 
robusti, teretes, supra subclavati, paulo altitis basi geniculo bisquamuloso arti- 
culati. Cal. paroulus segmentis 5 ovato-oblongis obtusis concavis, germint 
adaptatis, dorso caruncula didymé elevaté ellipticd poris 2 mediis guttiferis 
pertusi onustis. Cor. irregularis, rotato-explanata, carnosa, Jirma, albido- 
rosea: pet. cochleari-spathulata, distantia, 3 superiora majora lacinulato- 
dentata, medio ceteris submajore hastato-rotundo atque insignis inciso; 2 ima 
hastato-ovata, integra. Stam. longitudine unguium petalorum, infra medium 
monadelpha, supra conniventia: anth. oblonga, flava, ad basin filamenta 
brevi subulato infize, biloculares, introrstim dehiscentes, loculis collaterali- 
adnatis parti plane introverse receptaculi crassi oblongi posticé carinati. 
Germ. nitens, ovato-oblongum, rotundaté trigonum; stylis tribus filiformibus 
continuis partum brevioribus, fine stigmatoso. Pe econ eect Os Flores clausz 
pentagono-globosi, tusdem clausis KALMIz latifoliz non dissimiles. 
‘ We have not traced the present plant in any published 
species. It is throughout upon a far larger scale than urens 
of the 96th article of this work. Said to have been re- 
ceived from Germany a few years back by Messrs. Whitl ey, 
Brames, and Milne, of the Parson’s Green nursery, where 
the drawing was taken. Probably native of the West 
Indies; requires‘to be kept in the bark-bed of the stove, 
where it flowers for a long time in success on and at various 
seasons. 
Matrieuia is separated from Banisierta, which it re- 
sembles in flower and habit, by its unilocular three-stoned. 
drupe, in which the stones or nuts are one-seeded; the 
fruit of the latter being three one-seeded samaras or keys, 
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