1'40 FLORA OF JAMAICA S curidaca 



sub-2-lobed at the stigmatic apex. Fruit with a long terminal 

 wing, not opening. Seed with a short cap-like adpivssed aril ; 

 endosperm wanting: embryo undivided. 



Species about 30, mostly natives of tropical and sub-tropical 

 America, including West indies, a few in Africa and Asia. 



Racemes forming a corymbose leafy panicle. Anterior 



margin of seed-case wider above, rounded or horn-like 1. S. Brownei. 



Racemes lax. Anterior margin of seed-case narrow, of 



same breadth throughout 2. S. crecta. 



Panicles long ; branches distant. Anterior margin of 



seed-case narrow below, broad above ; apex 2-toothed 3. S. Lamarckii. 



1. S. Brownei Grisel. FL Br. W. Ltd. 30 (1859); racemes 

 dense, with numerous flowers, forming a somewhat corvmbose 

 leafy panicle ; anterior margin of seed-case wider above, rounded 

 or produced into an obtuse horn-like projection. -S. virgata 

 Macf. Jam. i. 49 (1837) (non Suo.). S. scandens foliis oblongis cVrc. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 288. Eltrefs Original Sketches of Browne'* 

 Jamaican Plants, 61, 62. (Fig. 84, A, H-J.) 



Red Hills, Browne; Wright \ Broughton\ Shakspearl common on 

 limestone, Macfadyen \ between Claremont and Bellfield, St. Mary, McNab ! 

 Browns Town; near Penu Hill; Purdie\ Wilson I Priori March ! below 

 Vinegar Hill; Hall's Delight; St. George, 2000 ft.; Olive R., near 

 Christiana, 3000 ft. ; Holly Mount, Mt. Diablo, 2500-3000 ft ; Mount 

 Pleasant, Stony Hill, 1100 ft.; Kempshot, 1100-1600 ft.; Red Hills, 

 St. Andrew, 1000 ft. ; Harris \ Brandon Hill, 1000 ft., Thompson \ Plowden 

 Hill, Fawccttl Bower's Wood road, Britton, 2615! Fl. Jam. 5545, 7674, 

 8039, 8240, 8992, 8999, 10,326, 11,140, 11,838. 



Shrub with numerous branches trailing over neighbouring shrubs and 

 low trees to a height of 25-40 ft. Leaves elliptical, rounded at apex, 

 obtuse or wedge-shaped at base, minutely puberulous or glabrous, 5-4 cm. 1., 

 becoming gradually smaller (to 1 cm. 1.) near the flowers. Eacemcs 

 4-8 cm. 1. Sepals 4-3 mm. 1., elliptical to roundish, coloured, densely 

 puberulous on the outside, minutely ciliate, with parallel dark veins. 

 Wings large, semicircular or rounded, unequal-sided, minutely ciliate, 

 7-1 cm. br. and nearly as long, with a very short claw. Petals oblong, 

 contracted in the middle, oblique and rounded above, gibbous at base, 

 about 6 mm. 1. ; lateral scale-like, oblong, about 1 mm. 1. Keel : blade 

 about 8 mm. 1., as folded together 3 mm. br., narrowly elliptical along the 

 edge of the fold, somewhat straight along the free margin, truncate at 

 base; central portion of apex folded together with an irregular margin. 

 Staminal sheath villous along the margin, about as long as the petals ; 

 free filaments about 2 mm. 1. Ovary compressed-ellipsoidal, margined on 

 both sides, margin on one side passing into the style just below the apex, 

 on the other slightly enlarged and forming a very short appendage above 

 the ovary ; style excentric, bent like a hook ; stigma with 2 capitate lobes. 

 Fruit : seed-case about 1 cm. 1., and as broad or nearly so, marked with a 

 few branching lines, sometimes not prominent ; wing somewhat oblong, 

 3-4 cm. 1., 2-1 '5 cm. br. near apex, 9-10 mm. br. at base. 



'2. S. ereeta Jacq. Eaum. PL Caril. 27 (1760); racemes lax, 

 anterior margin of seed-case very narrow, of the same breadth 



