L'.")4 FLOKA OF JAMAICA 



forte arbor racemosa &c. Sloane Cat. 135 & Hist. it. 19, /. 158, 

 /. 3. Specimen from Swartz in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Sloane Herb. v. 66, 67 ! Wright ! Dancer ! Swartz 1 Macfadycn \ above 

 Cave R., St. Ann, Purdic ! near Moneague, Prior ! Wilson 1 March I J.P. 

 1061, 1326, Aforrts ! Rock Fort, Campbell ! Golden Valley, St. Thomas, 

 1000 ft, ; near Hope, 700-800 ft. ; Great Goat Is. ; Potsdam, 2600 ft. ; Fish 

 River Mts. ; near Dolphin Head ; Croft's Mt., Clarendon, 2500 ft. ; Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 5423, 6412, 6574, 6602, 8601, 8950, 9301, 9337, 9778, 10,260, 

 10,309, 11,212; Union Hill, near Moneague, Brit ton & Hollick 2747!- 

 Cuba, Hispaniola. 



Petioles 1-3 mm. 1. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 1*5-3 mm. 1., deciduous. 

 Floiuers red, solitary or 2-5 in clusters, or racemose, or panicle-like on 

 slender branches from which the leaves have dropped ; pedicels 1-3 cm. 1. 

 Male flowers : Disk of 5-6 glands. Female flowers : Disk saucer-shaped, 

 crenate. Capsule globular, 9-10 mm. in diam., slightly fleshy on the 

 outside. Seeds 1-2 in each cell, pointed at apex, flattened at the other 

 end, 5-7 mm. 1. 



2. P. aeuminatus Valil Symb. ii. 95 (1791); shrub or much 

 branched tree, 8-25 ft. high ; twigs green, more or less 

 puberulous, angular; leaves 2-4-5 cm. 1., ovate, acuminate or 

 shortly acuminate, glabrous, but sometimes puberulous on nerves, 

 margin, and petiole ; sepals of male flower about 1 mm. 1., 

 3 outer deltoid, about 2 mm. br., 3 inner ovate, about '5 mm. 

 br., of female flower about 1'5 mm. 1., 3 outer broadly ovate, 

 3 inner oblong-ovate ; filaments united into a column ; anthers 3, 

 horizontal from apex of short column ; styles free, 2 -branched, 

 reflexed. Baill. Adans. i. 33 & ii. 15 ; Muell. Arg. in DC.Prodr. 

 .rt-.pt, 2, 381. P. Conami Sw. Prodr. 28 (1788) & Fl. Lid. Occ. 

 1105. 



Wright ! Hartweg (fide Baillon) ; near Castleton, Harris ! Fl. Jam. 

 8409, 11,147. Cuba, Martinique, St. Vincent, Trinidad, tropical conti- 

 nental America. 



Petiole 3-4 mm. 1. Stipules linear-lanceolate, l'5-2 mm. 1. Floioers 

 numerous, one female, the rest male, in axillary clusters. Male flowers : 

 Pedicels about 3 mm. 1., several together. Disk of 3 glands. Female 

 flowers : Pedicels about 13 mm. 1., one in each cluster, thickened and 

 angled at apex. Disk of 3 large bigibbous glands united laterally to form 

 a cup. Capsule 3 '5-4 mm. 1., surface net-veined. Seeds about 2'5 mm. 1., 

 reddish-brown, keeled on the back. 



3. P. portorieensis Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 388 (1910) ; shrub 

 12 ft. high, glabrous ; leaves 3-6 cm. 1., obovate, base cuneate ; 

 flowers dioecious (?) ; sepals of female flower 5 or 6, obovate to 

 ovate, about 1 mm. 1. ; styles free, 2-5-lobed, spreading.- 

 Diasperus portorieensis Knntze Rev. Gen. PL ii. 602 (1891). A 

 specimen from Kuntze in Herb. Kew. 



Hope grounds, 700 ft. Harris I Fl. Jam. 12,193, 12,344, 12,398.- 

 Porto Rico. 



Petiole 5-10 mm. 1. Male flowers not known. Female flowers greenish- 

 yellow, several together in axillary clusters ; pedicels 2-4 mm. 1. Sepals : 



