7b FLORA OF JAMAICA Fleming 



-. F. stricta ll<>.'i>. < .< /.'. 7>V. in Ait. J[<>rf. K<ic. <d. L\ iv 

 < L812) : I?<>.<7,. Cbrow. PL Hi -11, /. 248 (1819); leaves di-i 

 .".-f.ilinl.-ite ; bracts linear or lanceolate, caducous.-- \\'i</ltt Ic. t. 

 -'.L'!); Bale. torn. cit. 228. 



Punlic\ J.P. 722, Jenman\ near Browns Town, Harris \ Fl. Jam. 7^ 

 Shrub with woody 3-angled branches. Leaflets lanceolate, oblong, or 

 narrowly elliptical, acuminate, 1-3 dm. 1. ; petiole 3-angled, -5-1 '5 dm. 1. ; 

 stipules large, lanceolate, scarious, deciduous, 7-9 cm. 1. Inflorescence 

 - 5-1 5 dm. 1. Bracts 1 5-2 cm. 1. Calyx (iucl. shorter segments) about 

 5 mm. 1., with lower segment 9 mm. 1., silky. Standard 9 mm. 1. ; wings 

 7 mm. 1. ; keel about as long as the standard. Pod about 1*3 cm. 1.] 



10. Trees, or shrubs with trailing or twining branches. 

 Leaves irnparipinnate with several leaflets, sometimes only 

 3 or 1 ; leaflets without stipels (except rarely in Lonclto- 

 carpus and Andira). Flowers in axillary panicles or racemes, 

 panicles terminal or subterminal in Andira. Stamens 10, 

 all united into a sheath, split on the upper side or on both 

 upper and lower sides, or the upper stamen more or less 

 free, or wanting. Pod not splitting open, membranous, 

 leathery, woody or drupaceous. 



23. DALBERGIA Linn. f. 



Trees, or shrubs with twining or trailing branches. Leaves 

 alternate, with one leaflet or 3-5 (2) leaflets, imparipinnate ; 

 eaflets alternate. Flowers in axillary panicles. Calyx with 

 ") unequal segments, the two upper broader, the lowest longer. 

 Standard obovate or roundish. Stamens, all united into a sheath 

 split on the upper side, or the upper stamen free or wanting, or 

 the sheath is split also on the lower side ; anthers small, didymous, 

 the cells opening by a chink at the apex. Ovary stalked ; stigma 

 small, terminal ; ovules 2 or few. Pod not splitting open, oblong 

 or roundish, flat, thin, with 1-4 seeds. 



Species 80, growing in the tropics in America, Africa, and 

 Asia, of which two are also found in Australia. 



Leaflets one. 



Leaflets glabrous. Pod oblong, 3-4-seeded .......... 1. D. Broicnci. 



Leaflets puberulous beneath. Pod roundish, 1- 



seeded ........ .............................................. 2. D. Ecastaphyllum. 



Leaflets 3-5 ....................................................... 3. D. monetaria. 



1. D. Brownei Url. Stjmb. Ant. iv. 295 (in Obs.) (1905); 

 leaflets solitary, ovate-elliptical, subcordate or emarginate at base, 

 glabrous ; stalk of ovary shorter than the calyx ; pod oblong or 

 linear, 3-4-seeded, or sometimes 1-seeded. D. Amerimnum-BeM/A. 

 in Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 36 (1860); Griseb. FL Bi: 

 W. Ind. 202. Aruerimnoii fruticosum &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 288, 



