-44 FLUl.'A OF JAMAICA P 



Little Hope pastures, St. Andrew, Mac-fad yen ! St. Andrew, McNab ! 

 King's House grounds; Hope grounds; Harris] Fl. Jam. 6904, 8153. 

 Cuba, St. Thomas, Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad, Mexico, Guatemala, Guiana, 

 Brazil, Paraguay. 



Leaves lanceolate to linear, 2-5 cm. 1. Racemes 2-10 cm. 1., with 

 10-30 flowers. Flowers pale yellow with a tinge of purple, about 4 mm. 1. 



ah persistent, the two lower united nearly to apex, oblong or oblong- 

 elliptical, with a few stalked glands near the apex, I 1 3-2 mm. 1. Wings 

 petaloid, persistent, obovate-elliptical, somewhat unequal-sided, wedge- 

 shaped at base, with a white spot near the apex, 3-4 mm. 1., pinkish- 

 purple. Petals mauve-purplish, about 3 '8 mm. 1., wedge-shaped at base, 

 middle part contracted, upper part (1 mm. 1.) roundish. Keel obtuse, 

 about 4 mm. 1., attached to the staminal tube at the base. Stamens about 

 4 mm. 1. ; filaments united for more than half their length. Style about 

 3'5 mm. 1., bent at right angles just above the middle, puberulous just 

 below the shortly 2-lobed stigma. Capsule oblong-elliptical, emarginate, 

 slightly swollen, 3-3 '5 mm. 1.. cells equal. Seed about 2 -5 mm. 1., white, 

 cylindrical, minutely silky-puberulous. Aril helmet-like at apex of seed, 

 minutely 3-lobed at the base, about -7 mm. 1. 



>. P. jamaieensis Chod. in Mem. Soc. Pliys. Geneve xxxi. n. 2, 

 11, t. 13, /. 14 (1893): shrub or tree, 8-18 ft. high; racemes 

 very short, dense, corymbose-umbelliform ; keel without crest. 

 Blttki torn. cit. 14, t. 1, /. 3. P. fruticosa .... floribus con- 

 t'ertis ii;c. Browne Hist. Jam. 287. P. fruticosa .... capsulis 

 subrotundis &c. Browne loc. cit. t. 5, f. 3. P. arborea etc. Browne 

 lo>: cit. P. diversifolia L. Amcen. v. 381 & Sp. PL ed. 2, 989 

 (in part); Sic. Obs. Sot. 273. P. chinensis L. loc. cit. (in part). 

 Genista? affinis Anonyma <tc. Sloane Cat. 141 & Hist. ii. 32, 

 /. 170, f. 2. Badiera diversifolia DC. Prodr. L 334 (1824); 

 Britton 'in Bull. Ton: Bot. Cl. xxxdi. 362. 



White Lignum V i t a e. 



Sloane Hb. v. 100! Browne \ Wright I Swartz\ Macfadyenl rocks, sea- 

 coast, Manchester, Purdie ! White river, Prior ! March ! Wilson ! Rock 

 Fort, near Kingston ; Bath ; J.P. 641, Hart ! near Old England, Blue 

 Mrs., 3000-3500 ft.; near Ewarton, 950 ft.; Bridge Hill, 1500 ft.; Malvern, 

 2200 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5838, 6597, 6671, 7092, 9651. 



Leaves ovate to lanceolate, 3 '5-8 cm. 1. Racemes axillary; peduncle 

 1-1 '5 mm. 1. ; pedicels 2-4 mm. 1. Sepals elliptical or roundish, 1-1 '3 

 mm. 1., free, deciduous or more or less persistent. Wings obliquely ovate, 

 1-5-2 mm. 1. Petals 3 '8-4 '3 mm. 1., lower half ovate-oblong, next quarter 

 inflexed-contracted, uppermost quarter somewhat deltoid. Keel 3 '9-4 -5 

 mm. 1., blunt, contracted obliquely at the base into a claw; claw attached 

 to the staminal tube. Stamens about 3'5 mm. 1. ; filaments glabrous, 

 united nearly to apex. Ovary puberulous; style about 2*5 mm. L, 

 ^tigmatic lobes close together, not tufted. Capsule leathery-fleshy, some- 

 what roundish, cells equal, at length opening (one cell sometimes not 

 developed), keeled above, not winged, shortly stalked, 6 '5-10 mm. L, 

 7-11 mm. br. 



P. diversifolia L. Sp. PL 703, from description in Hort. Cliff, (p. 353) 



: and specimen (from Hort. Cliff.) in Herb. Mus. Brit, is Securidaca 



,*candens Jacq. In Amcen. v. 381, Linnaeus identified Browne's no. 2 



; as P. diversifolia, and a specimen from Browne is so named in Herb. 



Linn.; Browne's no. 4 Linneeus named P. cJiinensis, and a specimen from 



Browne is pinned to the type of P. chinensis. Both Browne's specimens 



