FLORA OF JAMAICA Polij<jl' 



what broadly tubular, 2-celled, each cell with an oblique opening 

 at the apex. Ovary 2-celled (1 cell sometimes abortive). Ovules 

 solitary, pendulous, anatropous, with a ventral raphe. Fruit a 

 2-celled loculicidal capsule, or a dry 1 -celled winged fruit, not 

 opening. Seeds with, or without endosperm. Embryo straight. 



Species 800, dispersed through the temperate and warmer 

 regions of the whole world. 



Ovary 2-celled. Fruit a capsule 1. Polygala. 



Ovary 1-celled. Fruit samaroid 2. Securidaca. 



\. POLYGALA L. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Petals 2, more or less adhering t<> 

 the staminal tube and the keel. Anthers 1- or 2-celled opening 

 by a transverse foramen or inwards by an oblique one. Ovary 

 2-celled. Capsule opening loculicidally at the margin. 



Species 600 or more, natives of temperate and warmer regions 

 of the whole world. 



Flower with crested keel. Herb 1. P. paniculata. 



Keel without crest. 



Herb. Racemes lax 2. P. angusti folia. 



Shrub or tree. Racemes dense, pedicels umbellate 3. P. jamaicensis. 



1. P. panieulata L. Syst. ed. 10, 1154 (1759) & Amcen. v. 381, 

 402; slender annual herb, 5-12 inches (1*3-3 dm.), and more, 

 high ; stem and leaves densely covered with minute glands, 

 sometimes glandular-puberulous ; racemes terminal and lateral, 

 loosely -flowered ; keel crested. Sw. Obs. Bot. 272, t. 6, /". 2 : 

 H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. v. 402 ; Bot. Beg. t. 761 ; Macf. Jam. 

 /. 47 ; Grisel). Fl Br. W. Ind, 28 ; A. W. Bennett in FL Bras. 

 xiii.pt. 3, 31, t. ll,/. 2; Chod. in Mem. Soc. Plnjs. Geneve xxxi. 

 n. 2, 229, t. 24, /. 10, 11; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 336; Blake in 

 Contrib. Gray Herb, n.s., no. xlcii. 99, t. 2, /. 77. P. herbacea 

 minor &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 287. (Fig. 83.) The type, a 

 specimen from Browne, is in Herb. Linn. 



Broicnel Massonl Macfadyenl Port Royal Mts., Me Nab ! also Purdic ! 

 Newcastle, 4COO ft., Eggers ! Resource, J.P. 1140, Morris ! Cinchona, 4900 ft., 

 Faivcettl alsoClutel Williams Ford, Millspaugli; Bog Walk; Port Antonio; 

 Hitchcock ; Scott's Hall ; Prospect Hill, 2000 ft. ; Thompson ! near Castleton, 

 500 ft.; Troy, 1800 ft.; Harris I Fl. Jam. 7403, 7911, 7938, 9400. West 

 Indies, tropical continental America. 



Leaves alternate (but opposite or whorled near the base), 7-18 mm. 1., 

 linear, attenuate-acuminate at botb ends. Racemes 3-9 cm. 1. Flowerx 

 very small, 2-2-5 mm. 1., rosy or purplish, rarely white. Sepals sub- 

 petaloid, free, persistent, with 2 whitish linear glands on eacb ; upper 

 roundish-elliptical, apex obtuse, l'l-l-3 mm. L, two lower oblong or 

 narrowly elliptical, 1 1-1 ' 2 mm.l. Wings petaloid, persistent, 1-3-nerved, 

 elliptical, nai rowed to base, twice as long as sepals, 2 -2-2 -5 mm. 1. Petal* 

 lanceolate, apex obtuse, 2-2*5 mm. 1. Keel 2*2 mm. L, witb crest of 



