Malpighia mexicana A. Juss.

Malpighia mexicana A. Juss. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 13 : 337. 1840
Bunchosia guadalajarensis S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 22 : 401. 1887. Malpighia oaxacana Niedzu.; Loesener, Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2: 544. 1894. Malpighia guadalajarensis Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1 : 310. 1895.
Leaf-blades elliptic or oval, varying to ovate, obovate, ovate-lanceolate, or obovateoblanceolate, 2-10 cm. long, acute or acuminate, or sometimes obtuse or emarginate, more or less pubescent, thinly so or glabrate above, tomentose, usually densely and permanently so beneath, narrowed to the short petiole ; cymes peduncled, one third to one half the length of the leaves, the branches tomentulose ; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm. long, densely pubescent, the glands about one half the length of the sepal-body ; corolla purple or purplish, 16-20 mm. wide, the larger petals mostly 7-9 mm. long; drupes depressed, often half-globose, 10-12 mm. long, much wider, red.
Type locality : Mexico.
Distribution : Durango to Jalisco and Oaxaca.