KEY TO FAMILI1> XV 



Leaves compound. 

 Leaves alternate. 



Fruit a pod (sometimes not opening, rarely 



drupe-like) 39. Legu m i nosx. 



Fruit not a pod. 



Leaves sensitive to light 41. Oxalis. 



Leaves not sensitive. 

 Filaments free. 

 Flowers 2-sexual. 

 Shrubs or trees. 



Leaves gland-dotted 45. Rutaccx. 



Leaves not glandular 47. Protium. 



Herbs H. Zygophyllad . 



Flowers 1-sexual 40. Airum iua. 



Filaments united more or less into a tube, 



or adherent to the columnar disk 48. Mcliaccx. 



Leaves opposite. 



Leaves gland-dotted 45. Rutaccae. 



Leaves not glandular 44. Zygoplujllac<:;< . 



NOTE ON 

 DR. PATRICK BROWNE'S Natural History of Jamaica. 



Dr. Patrick Browne published his " Natural History of 

 Jamaica '' in 1756, three years after the appearance of Linnseu-'- 

 " Species Plantarum." Browne did not adopt the binomial 

 system of Linnaeus, but quoted as synonyms of his own 

 diagnostic names the diagnoses of the " Species Plantarum." In 

 his own copy of the History, now in the library of the Linnean 

 Society, Lmna>us added the binomial as a marginal note. 



Linnaeus acquired Browne's herbarium in 1758, and ha- 

 underlined in his copy of the " History " the first letter of those 

 species of which there was a specimen in Browne's herbarium. 

 In some instances these specimens were the foundation of species 

 published by Linmeus in the " Systema," edit. 10, 1759, for 

 instance, (..<i*xla rl mined ; others represented species which 

 lirowne had failed to identity \\ith tliose in the "Species 

 Plantarum,''' for instance, C. liijlorn. Sometimes a specimen in 

 Brownie's herbarium has not been identified by Linnaeus with 

 any diagnosis of Browne, but ha- been published in the 

 : - Syslema," for in-iam-e. ('. j 



