Plate 809 - Malpighia Volubilis

N.809 Library Subscription Hull syd Edwards del Pub by T.Curtis st Gee Crefcent Jan.1 1805 FSansom sculp smen adidas 809 i druh sidT eth big broqlso on ob ud ataibar H Malpighia Volubilis Twining Juodi snob Barbadoes-Cherry.d agnatus yd beings Class and Order DECANDRIA Trigynia Generic Character bish and jud Wads 16 pl Cal 5-phyllus petiolis quibufdam extus basi glandulofis Petala 5 fubrotunda unguiculata Filamenta basi Drupa 1-locularis tripyrena nucibus 1-spermis specific Character and synonyms Malpighia twolubilis ramis twolubilibus soliis ovalibus acuminatis lucidis racemis corymbofis ter minalibus DEsCR stem shrubby branches twining the bark except of the young fhoots covered with warty excrefcences and some adpreffed briftles hardly vifible to the naked eye Leaves oval-acuminate perfectly smooth and shining hanging down from the weakness of the sootstalk which is flattifh and beset with adpreffed briftles Flowers chiefly terminal on corymbous racemes from the axil of the leaves and much shorter than these yellow of very short duration Calyx persistent divided to the bottom into five ovate fleshy segments sour of which are furnished each with two oval gibbous green glands nearly as long as the calyx Petals five claws long and flender roundish jagged at the edges somewhat sagittate at the base stamens ten filaments erect united at the base longer than styles inserted into the re ceptacle at the base of the germen which is small roundish pointed hairy terminated in three erect styles with round stigmas This This shrub is known in our nurferies by the name of Hirea reclinata but does not at all correspond with the character of that plant in Jacquin'S Hiftoria stirpium Americanarum Indeed the above description will determine it to be a real species of Malpighia as far as can be done without the fruit perhaps it may be Malpighia diphilla of Jacquin but his description is too short to determine Is a native of the Weft-Indies requiring the heat of a stove Our drawing was taken in the garden of Jos Walker Esq of stockwell in September last Propagated by cuttings TA audio fill and idley inter Nidates Atham 151 aut eise 20 ditenim 2100

N.809 Library Subscription Hull syd Edwards del Pub by T.Curtis st Gee Crefcent Jan.1 1805 FSansom sculp smen adidas 809 i druh sidT eth big broqlso on ob ud ataibar H Malpighia Volubilis Twining Juodi snob Barbadoes-Cherry.d agnatus yd beings Class and Order DECANDRIA Trigynia Generic Character bish and jud Wads 16 pl Cal 5-phyllus petiolis quibufdam extus basi glandulofis Petala 5 fubrotunda unguiculata Filamenta basi Drupa 1-locularis tripyrena nucibus 1-spermis specific Character and synonyms Malpighia twolubilis ramis twolubilibus soliis ovalibus acuminatis lucidis racemis corymbofis ter minalibus DEsCR stem shrubby branches twining the bark ex cept of the young fhoots covered with warty excrefcences and some adpreffed briftles hardly vifible to the naked eye Leaves oval-acuminate perfectly smooth and shining hanging down from the weakness of the sootstalk which is flattifh and beset with adpreffed briftles Flowers chiefly terminal on corymbous racemes from the axil of the leaves and much shorter than these yellow of very short duration Calyx persistent divided to the bottom into five ovate fleshy seg ments sour of which are furnished each with two oval gibbous green glands nearly as long as the calyx Petals five claws long and flender roundish jagged at the edges somewhat sagittate at the base stamens ten filaments erect united at the base longer than styles inserted into the re ceptacle at the base of the germen which is small roundish pointed hairy terminated in three erect styles with round stigmas This This shrub is known in our nurferies by the name of Hirea reclinata but does not at all correspond with the character of that plant in Jacquin'S Hiftoria stirpium Ameri canarum Indeed the above description will determine it to be a real species of Malpighia as far as can be done without the fruit perhaps it may be Malpighia diphilla of Jacquin but his description is too short to determine Is a native of the Weft-Indies requiring the heat of a stove Our drawing was taken in the garden of Jos Walker Esq of stockwell in September last Propagated by cuttings TA audio fill and idley inter Nidates Atham 151 aut eise 20 ditenim 2100