FLOKA OF JAMAICA Crotalnria 



Stipul. lit. 



Free apex of stipules acute 3. ' "talis. 



Free apex sometimes ui'tu-c 4.' C. j>tcrocauln. 



$ -. Loaves 3-foliolate. 

 Peduncles 1- or few-flowered, axillary 5. C. lotifolia. 



1 1 a c ernes 5- or many-flowered, opposite a leaf or 

 terminal. 



Pod hairy. 



Pod 1-1-5 cm. 1 r>. C. pumila. 



Pod 3 cm. 1 7. C. incana. 



Pod glabrous S. C. striata. 



3. Leaves 5-foliolate C. quinq uefolia.'] 



1. Leaves simple. 



*Stipules wlien present, not decurrent. 



1. C. verrueosa L. Sp. PL 715 (1753); leaves ovate or 

 roundish-elliptical ; stipules foliaceous ; flowers blue ; pods 

 pubescent with adpressed down. Hot. Mag. t. 3034 ; 3Iacf. Jam. 

 /. 238; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ltd. 178; Bak. in Hook. f. 'FL Br. 

 In'1. !i. 77. Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Fls. throughout the year ; common, Macfadyen \ Liguanea, McNab ! 

 fsauel J.P. 962, Morris I Miss Foster I near Kingston, 500 ft., Clutel also 

 Uothrock ; Billy Dun, 500 ft., Campbell \ Long Mt. road, Faivcett ! Watson's 

 Hill, Manchester, 800ft.; near Troy, 2000 ft.; Harris I Fl. Jam. 5833,6381, 

 14, Port Royal, Lucea, Hitchcock. Tropics. 



Annual, scarcely shrubby, 2-3 ft. high, puberulous, glabrescent, branches 

 and peduncles 4-3-angled. Leaves 7-3 cm. L, 5-2 cm. br. ; stipules lunate, 

 deflexed. Racemes many-flowered. Calyx 2-lipped, half as long as the 

 corolla, 7-10 rnm. L, glabrescent ; segments narrowly triangular, acuminate. 

 Pod oblong, 3-3 '5 cm. 1., brown. 



This species and others have been used as green dressings. 



[C. juneea L. Sp. PL 714 (1753) ; leaves linear or oblong- 

 linear, 4-10 cm. 1. ; stipules minute, setaceous, or wanting; 

 pods ptibescent-tomentose. Bot. Mag. t. 490 ; Bak. torn. cit. 79 ; 

 Grixeb. op. cit. 179 ; Wil*. in Reports Geoloy. Jam. 276 ; Watt 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. Ind. ii. 595. Type in Herb. Linn. 



Fls. in autumn ; Barbican, Liguanea Plain, McNab ! Wilson; March I 

 near Camp, 280 ft., Campbelll King's House grounds; Halfway Tree ; 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6111, 6905, 8274, 11,856; Constant Spring, Hitchcock. 

 Tropics of the Old World. 



Annual, shrubby, to 10 ft. high, branching, silky-puberulous. Leaves 

 silky-pubescent chiefly beneath, about - 5 cm. br. Haccmes long, with 

 many flowers. Calyx 5-partite, nearly as long as the corolla, about 

 1-5 cm. 1., segments lanceolate-linear. Pod oblong, about 3 cm. 1. 



The plant yields the Sunn or San hemp of commerce, and is cultivated 

 for this purpose in the tropics of the Old World. It is used in the manu- 

 facture of ropes, fishing nets, saddles for pack horses, hose pipes, etc. It 

 has considerable tensile strength, and, like European hemp, its tendency 

 to rot under water seems to be very slight.] 



