Galphimia
(an anagram of malpigha). ORD. Malpighiaceoe. This genus comprises about a dozen species of handsome stove evergreen shrubs, inhabitants of tropical and sub-tropical North America and Brazil. Flowers yellow or reddish, in terminal racemes. Leaves opposite, small. Galphimias thrive in a compost of peat and loam. Cuttings, made of the ripened wood, will root in sand, under a bell glass, in heat.
G. glandulosa (glandular). fl. yellow; petals oblong. April. l. oval-lanceolate, smooth; petioles with two large glands at top. H. 3ft. to 4ft. Mexico, 1824.
G. glauca (glaucous).* fl. yellow. l. ovate, obtuse, smooth, glaucous beneath, and with one tooth on each side at the base; petioles without glands. Mexico, 1830. (B. H. 8, 45.) G. hirsuta (hairy). fl. yellow. Septemper. l. ovate, acute, on short footstalks, hairy on both surfaces. h. 6ft. Mexico, 1824