FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Stigmaphyllon 



" St. Mary " ; " near Annotto Bay, St. George " ; McNab ! West Indies, 

 Panama and northern South America. 



Leaves 7-15 cm. 1., 3 '5-10 cm. br., floral leaves on an axillary branch, 

 often lanceolate or bract-like, petioles silky with adpressed hairs 4-1*5 

 cm. 1. Sepals ovate or somewhat obovate-oblong, exceeding the glands by 

 ! 5-2 mm. ; glands elliptical 1-1 '5 mm. 1. Petals with fringed margin; 

 limb 5-8 mm. in diam. ; claw 2-3 mm. 1. Samara 1 oblong to oblong- 

 lanceolate ; wing to 3 - 5 cm. 1., at the base to 1-5 cm. br. 



7. TRIOPTERIS L. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves without stipules. Racemes or 

 panicles axillary and terminal. Glands of the calyx 8. Petals 

 pink or purplish. Stamens all perfect. Ovary 3-lobecl,, lobes 

 3-crested, and with a small lobe below the median crest. 

 Samaras 3, crested on the back, 3-wingecl ; the lateral wings 

 erect, united with the third inferior into a deeply 3-lobed, 

 Y-shaped wing. Embryo folded on itself. 



Species 3 or -i, natives of the West Indies and the Bahamas. 



Leaves oblong-ovate or ovate, obtuse or acute. 



Inflorescence corymb-like 1. T. paniculata. 



Leaves broadly ovate, markedly acuminate. 



Inflorescence pyramidal 2. T. Brittonii. 



1. T. panieulata Small in N. Amer. Fl. zxv. 124 (1910) ; 

 leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate, or rarely elliptical, 

 apex obtuse or acute, base rounded or subcordate ; panicle some- 

 what corymb-like. T. jamaicensis Sw. Obs. Bot. 183 (1791); 

 Macf. Jam. i. 150 (non L.) ; A. Juss. in Arch. Mus. Par. Hi. 516 

 under T. ovata Cav. ; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 120. Banisteria 

 seminibus trialatis &c. Broivne Hist. Jam. 231. Malpighia 

 paniculata 3HU. Gard. Diet. eel. 8 (1768). (Fig. 80.) The type, 

 Miller's specimen, is in Herb. MUG. Brit. A specimen from 



Fig. SO. Triopteris paniculata Small. 



a, Samara x 2. 

 b, Embryo enlarged (after A. de Jussieti). 



