Suriana 



SIMARUBACE^E 



197 



239. S. foliis Arc. Plum. GI-H. '>?, /. 40. S. maritima &c. Browne 

 Hist. Jam. 190. Thymeheie facie frutex Arc. Sloane Cat. 138 k 

 Hist. it. 29, /. 162, /. 4. (Fig. 62.) Specimen in Herb. Sloane in 

 Herb. ALus. Brit. There are two specimens in Herb. Linn., one 

 named by Linnaeus, the other from Browne named in Solander's 

 hand. 



House Key, near Port Royal ; St. Ann ; Sloane Herb. v. 105 ! St. James, 

 Broivnc\ Sliakspcar\ Plantain Garden river, Macfadyen ; Mammee Bay, 

 St. Ann, McNab ! Prior ; March ! Dover, Metcalfe ! Port Henderson, 

 Campbell \ sea-shore, Healthshire Hills; Pedro Bluff; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 

 6068, 95^;, 9717. 



Shrub or small tree, 4-10(-20) ft. high. Leaves 1-3 "5 cm. 1. Bracts 

 lanceolate, 3-4 mm. 1. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 8 (6-10) mm. 1. Petals 

 rectangular-elliptical, with erose apex, shortly clawed, shorter than the 

 calyx. Filaments villose at the base. Ovary villose. Ripe carpels 

 pubescent, 5 mm. 1. 



2. CASTELA Turpin. 



Shrubs ; branches often reduced to spines. Leaves alternate, 

 simple, entire, leathery. Flowers small, inconspicuous, clustered 

 or solitary in the axils, dioecious. Calyx small, 4-cleft. Petals 4, 

 imbricate. Disk fleshy, crenate. Male flowers : Stamens 8. 

 Ovary wanting. Female flowers : Staminodes 8. Ovary com- 



r'L. 63. CaatdH in<ii-i-i>/i!/lla I'rli. 



A,"__Ppi lion df linin.-Ii sliowiiii; U-avc> ;iu<l i . l-Vmalc !l\\cr X 4 <>f C. X' 



male flowers X - ; the Leavea alu.v.' lio.ik. 



*thf lowest, spring fnnn leilured I". inip.'<, one cul lengthwise, nat. sin ; 



axillary sin- C, "i \lednn ; r, r 

 i'., M-;!u il'iv.'cr X 4. 



((.' after II..,.U,r.) 



