FLOKA OF JAMA1< A Ormosui 



unequal; anther^ versatile. Style with apex folded in; stigma 

 lateral, on the inner side. Pod compressed, tnick and leathery, 

 2-valved. Seeds few, attached by a cartilaginous flexuose stalk. 

 Species 20, natives of the tropics in America, Asia, and t\\> 

 species in Africa. 



0. jamaicensis Urb. fymb. Ant. i: 366 (1908). (Fig. 29.) 



Nickel. 



Road from Askenish to Dolphin Head, and on the Dolphin slope, 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9241. 



A tall timber tree, with a straight trunk up to 80 ft. in height and 

 over 3^ ft. in diameter; head dense and leafy. Leaflets in 4(-5) pairs, 

 elliptical to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base obtuse or acute, 5-11 (12) 

 cm. 1., 2-3-5 (4) cm. br. ; petiolule 5-6 mm. 1. Peduncle 2-2-5 cm. 1. 

 fruit-bearing rhachis 6-18 cm. 1. Pod glabrous, 1-seeded, 4-5 cm. 1. ; or 

 2-seeded, 6 cm. 1. Seeds flattened-globose, scarlet with a black ovate- 

 acuminate -spot near the attachment, about 1'5 cm. 1., and almost as 

 broad, about 1 cm. thick. 



" Nickel " is a corruption of " necklace," as the beads are used to make 

 necklaces. 



12. Trees. Leaves imparipinnate, usually reduced to 1 

 leaflet in the Jamaican species. Calyx closed before 

 flowering, and then bursting into 2-4 irregular segments. 

 Petals 1 in the standard. Stamens numerous, distinct. 

 Pod ellipsoidal or oblong. 



30. SWARTZIA Schreb. 



Trees. Leaves imparipinnate or reduced to 1 leaflet in 

 S. simplex. Flowers racemose or solitary. Calyx closed before 

 flow-ering, and then bursting irregularly. Petal 1 (standard), 

 broad, corrugate, the rest wanting, or 2 lateral, very small, some- 

 times petals altogether wanting. Stamens numerous, distinct, sub- 

 hypogynous. Pod leathery or fleshy, 2-valvecl or not opening. 



Species 60, natives of tropical America and one of tropical 

 Africa. 



S. simplex Spreng. Syst. ii. 567 (1825) ; Urb. Symb. Ant. v. 

 364. S. simplicifolia Willd. % PL ii. 1219 (1800). S. grandi- 

 flora WiTld. torn. c'tt. 1220 (1800); Wils. in Eeports Geolog. Jam. 

 Ill : Benth. in FL Bras. xv. pt. 2, 18; Griseb. FL Br. W. Lid. 

 211. Possira simplex Sw. Prodr. 82 (1788). Rittera simplex 

 Valtl Symb. ii. 60 (1791). R. grandiflora Valil Eclog. Amer. ii. 

 37 & Ic. t. 9 (1798). Tounatea simplex Taubert in Bot. CentralbL 

 xh'ii. 391 (1891). (Fig. 30.) 



Wilson ; March ; Bath Garden, J. P. 1011, Morris ! Castleton Garden, 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 8449, 9279. Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent, Bequia, 

 Trinidad, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica. 



A small tree, 18-20 ft., glabrous. Leaflets lanceolate to elliptical, 

 usually acuminate, 8-14 cm. 1. ; petiolules 2-5 mm. 1. ; stipules linear, 



