22 FLOKA OF JAMAICA Malpiglda 



C h e r r y. 



anc Herb. vii. 321 Wright I Broughton I SI lak spear \ Macfadyenl 

 St. Mary, Me Nab I Port Royal Mts., Purdie \ March ! Port Morant, Lucea, 

 HitcJicock ; St. Andrew, Campbell ! Cane River valley, above Falls. 

 Fdicccttl Bridge Hill, Faiucettl Westphalia; Berwick Hill; Sheldon 

 Road, 2500 ft.; Grove, 800 ft.; Tweedside, south St. Andrew, 2500 ft.; 

 near Alligator Pond, 300 ft.; Watson's Hill, 2200 ft.; Long Mountain, 

 900 ft. ; coast between Moutego Bay and Lucea ; Malvern, 2200 ft. ; 

 Harris \ Fl. Jam. 5378, 5400, 5459, 6087, 6094, 6621, 6922, 7265, 8202, 

 8620, 8848, 8913, 9235, 9646; Lime Hall, Ormsby ! near Montego Bay, 

 Mrs. E. G. Brittpn, 2919 ! Spur Tree Hill, Britten-, 1057 ! West Indies 

 and tropical continental America. 



Shrub 4-10 ft. high, or (in cultivated ground) tree to 20 ft. high ; 

 young parts more or less covered with silky hairs. Sepals oblong to ovate- 

 oblong, glabrous, 2'5 mm. 1., glands about half as long. Petals rosy-pink, 

 denticulate, to 8 mm. 1. ; limb roundish or elliptical, longer than the claw. 

 Styles subequal, straightish, thickened at apex. Drupe scarlet, globular- 

 3-angled, juicy of a sweet but insipid taste. 



2. M. punieifolia L. Sp. PL cd. 2, 609 (1762) ; leaves glabrous, 

 elliptical, or somewhat obovate-elliptical, or sometimes ovate - 

 lanceolate, apex generally obtuse or rounded or emarginate, sub- 

 sessile, 28 cm. 1. ; flowers 21 (4) in sessile or subsessile corymbs 

 or umbels; styles thicker at apex; drupe 1-1 '5 cm. in diam., 

 ovoid ; pyrenes, outline roundish, 3-crested ; crests thin, equal in 

 length, the spaces between with transverse ridges with nmricate 

 edges ; commissural ridge broad with sharp edges, much shorter 

 than the crests at the base. Descourt. FL Ant. i. 145, t. 30 ; 

 Wright Hem. 271 ; Macf. Jam. i. 147 ; A. Juss. torn. tit. 261, t. 4 ; 

 Griseb. loc. tit. ; Niedenzu torn. tit. 7 ; Small torn. tit. 156. M. foKis 

 ovatis itc. Plum. PL Amer. (Biirm.) t. 166, /. 2. M. fruticosa 

 erecta ramulis <i:c. Browne Hist. Jam. 230. M. uni flora Tvss. FL 

 Ant. Hi. t, 27 (1824). 



Cherry. 



Macfadyen ! St. Andrew ; St. Ann ; Me Nab ! J.P. 621, Morris ! Red 

 Hills, Grabliam ! Long Mountain, 50 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9573. West 

 Indies (but not reported from Cuba and Hispaniola), northern S. America. 



Shrub or tree, 7-16 ft. high, much like the preceding species. Petals 

 slightly keeled, roundish, somewhat broader than long. Stamens : two 

 thicker and larger than the rest* 



3. M. fueata Ker in Bot. Eeg. t. 189 (1817); leaves large, 

 with stinging hairs (3-7 mm. 1.) beneath, elliptical or oblong 

 (some also ovate or obovate or lanceolate), obtuse or acute at 

 both ends, to 20 cm. L, to 11 cm. br. ; petiole 5-10 mm. 1. ; 

 flowers 9-20 in sessile or subsessile corymbs ; pedicels 1-2 5 cm. 1. ; 

 drupe to 1*5 cm. in diam. ; pyrenes, outline roundish, 3-crested ; 

 crests thin, the middle of the spaces between the wings with 

 short transverse ridges, which in the dry fruit form, as it were, 

 intermediate crests parallel to the crests ; commissural ridge 

 thick and broad, equalling the crests at the base. A. Juss. torn. 



