154 KL<>KA OF JAMAICA Inga 



indication of the regular dehiscence of the pod, nor of the terminal leaflet 

 depicted by Sloaue. 



Grisebach cites Bentharn as the authority for the occurrence of 

 /. iiKjoiih'x \Villd. in Jamaica, but we find no confirmation of this, nor 

 have we seen specimens. It differs from I. vcra Willd. in the flowers being 

 stalked, the spikes corymbose, calyx 6-7 mm. 1., corolla twice as long as 

 the calyx, and the pod longer and deeply furrowed. 



FAMILY XL. GERAXIACE^E. 



Herbs or shrubs ; branches swollen at the nodes. Leaves 

 simple, stipulate. Sepals and petals 5, generally distinct and 

 imbricate. Stamens 10 or 15 (5), often united at the base. 

 Ovary 5-celled ; carpels united with the axis, produced above 

 into a beak with the styles more or less combined with it. Fruit 

 a capsule separating elastically into 5 one-seeded parts (cocci). 

 Endosperm thin or none. 



Species about 630, natives of temperate and subtropical 

 regions of the whole world, a few in the mountains of the tropics. 



GERANIUM L. 



Herbs. Leaves palmately lobed. Flowers regular, parts 

 in 5's. Glands 5, alternate with petals. Stamens twice as many 

 as petals. Ovary 5-celled ; stigmas 5 ; ovules '2 in each cell. 

 Ripe carpels separating from the central axis elastically usually 

 from base to apex, and recurved. Cotyledons induplicate-plicate 

 or convolute ; radicle incumbent. 



Species about 260, natives of the temperate regions of the 

 whole world, only found in the tropics in the mountains. 



G. earolinianum L. S^. PL 682 (1753); Hanks & Small in 

 N. Amer. Fl. x.cv. 9 : Knuth in Enal. Pflanzenreich iv. 129, 54. 

 G. columbinum carolinum ttc. Dill. EltTi. t. 135. G. lanuginosum 



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Jacq. Hort. Schoeribr. ii. 8, t. 140 (1797). G. pyrenaicum Griseb. 

 FL Br. W. Lid. 132 (1859) (non Burm. f.) (see Urb. Symb. 

 Ant. vi. 96) : Hanks & Small tout. at. 10 (with reference to 

 Jamaica). (Fig. 48.) Type in Herb. Gronovius in Herb. Mus. 

 Brit. ; specimen named by Linnaeus in Herb. Linn. 



Near Coldspring, Sivartz ! Me Nab ! Abbey Green, Prior ; Cinchona, J.P. 

 947, 1398, Hartl Blue Mt. Peak, Hitchcock; Clydesdale; Cinchona, 

 5000 ft. ; below Newcastle, 3800 ft. ; Green Valley, St. Andrew, 2000 ft. ; 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 8577, 11,939, 12,388. Southern Canada, U. States, 

 northern Mexico, Bermuda. ^ 



Annual or biennial, pubescent. Stem branching, erect or ascending, 

 to 1^ ft. high. Leaves 3-6 cm. br., divided almost to the base into 5-7 

 segments ; segments pinnately cleft into linear lobes ; petioles long. 

 Inflorescence with the peduncles and flowers somewhat crowded and 



