CONIFERiE. 503 



incomplete, longitudinal dissepiment and by a transverse stricture : the pairs one above the 

 other. Stigma blunt. Drupe usually 4-sccded. — A glabrous tree (or shrub) ; leaves scat- 

 tered, entire. 



1. B. daphnoides, L. — Jaeq. Amer. Pict. t. 261. /. 57 •. the flower. Besc. Fl. 6. 

 t. 380. — 30-10' high; leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 4"-2" long : pedicels mostly single, as 

 long as the flower ; calyx-segments subulate, ciliate, 1'" long ; corolla yellow, variegated 

 with purple, 10"'-12"' long; drupe ovate, pointed, yellowish, 5"' loug. — Hab. Barbuda!, 

 Nichols., Antigua !, Nichols., Wullschl., Barbadoes ; naturalized in Jamaica ; Trinidad. !, Cr. ; 

 [Haiti, French islands!]. 



GYMNOSPERM^]. 



CXXIIL CONIFERS. 



Flowers unisexual, naked, reduced to single stamens and open carpophylls, often amenta- 

 ceous, and $ devoid of bracts. Syncarpium a cone, rarely fleshy. Embryo axile, developed 

 with the albumen in a secondary sac of the ovule : cotyledons whorled or 2. — Woody*plauts -. 

 the wood devoid of vessels ; leaves simple, entire, rigid, often acerose. 



Resin and volatile oils are universal in this order. The "West Indian Coniferce are timber- 

 trees. 



1. JUNIPERUS, L. 



Flowers in small catkins, usually dioecious. Anthers 3-8-ccUed : cells near the base of 

 the scale-like connective. Bracts of ? becoming fleshy, coalescent, (forming the galbulus), 

 inferior sterile : ovules 3-1, erect, atropous. Cotyledons 2(-3). — Leaves acerose or minute, 

 opposite or in threes. 



1. J. barbadensis, L. Leaves channelled on the back with a linear, glandular fur- 

 row, on older lateral branches minute, decussately imbricate, deltoid-ovate, bluntish, on 

 younger shoots subulate-lanceolate, acuminate ; galbuli globose, glaucous-black, usually 

 shorter than their supporting branchlet. — SI. t. loT.f. 3. — J. bcrmudiana, Lun. (non L.). 

 — Combined by Endlicher with /. virginiana, L., which is quite distinct by having a short 

 gland and no linear furrow on the back of the leaves, and by the galbuli ovate-obtusatc. — A 

 large tree ; small leaves %'"-V", larger ones 2"'-3'" long. — Hab. Bahamas ; Jamaica {SI.}, 

 iu the Blue mountains; Antigua !, Wullschl., at Cedar hall, Barbadoes. 



2. PINUS, L. 



Flowers amentaceous, monoecious. Anthers 2-celled. Carpophylls separated by bracts 

 {i.e. by organs homologous to the stamens), forming a cone, 2-ovulate : ovules anatropous. 

 Cotyledons whorled. 



2. P. bahamensis, Gr. (n. sp.). Leaves . . . ; cones shortly peduncled, conical-cylin- 

 drical, blnntish, (34" long) : apophysis convex-depressed, transversely keeled, polished 

 brown, umbilicate at the middle : umbo pyramidal or compressed-conical, pointed, spreading. 

 — Of this timber-tree the cones only are known as yet : from its vernacular name (Pitch- 

 Pine) it may belong to the section Tada, in which there are three leaves in the bundle. — 

 Hab. Bahamas!: Kew Museum. 



