Pliyllantlius EUPHORBIACE.K 257 



Hollis's Savanna, Clarendon, 2400 ft. ; Cornwall, St. Elizabeth ; Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 12,2:44, 12,555. Caba. 



Stipules triangular, acuminate, about 1 mm. 1. Flowers solitary in 

 axils, or 2 or 3 together, male and female mixed ; pedicels about 1 mm. 1. 

 Male flowers : Disk of 5 separate glands. Anthers sessile at apex of 

 column. Female flowers : Disk saucer-shaped with wavy or shortly-lobed 

 margin. Styles 3, each with two short branches. Capsule (not seen) 

 depressed, with the sepals persistent, generally becoming larger (fide 

 Wright). Seeds (not seen) longitudinally striate, with numerous trans- 

 verse lines (fide Wright). 



[P. reticulatus Poir. Encyc. v. 298 (1804) ; shrub or small 

 bushy tree, 6-10 ft. high ; leaves 2-3 5 cm. 1., elliptical or oblong- 

 elliptical, glabrous; sepals of male flower 5 or 6, 2-2-5 mm. 1., 

 outer elliptical, inner obovate, of female flowers 5-6 (4-7), 2- 

 2'5 mm. L, outer elliptical, inner obovate or roundish; filaments 

 3 (or 2) inner more or less united, fleshy, 2 (or 3) outer short, 

 slender or abortive with the anthers sessile at the base of 

 the other filaments ; anthers erect, opening vertically ; styles 

 wanting, branches minute, 2-lobed. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. 

 xv. pt. 2, 344. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 288. P. jamaicensis 

 Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 34. Anisonema reticulatum A. /*>-. 

 Euph. Tent. t. 4, /. 11 (1824). A. niultiflorum Wight Ic. t. 1899 

 (1852). 



Naturalized; Macfadyenl Woods above Bath, Pur die ! Wilsonl Plantain 

 Garden Paver, Harris & Britton \ cult. Castleton Garden ! Fl. Jam. 10,677. 

 East Indies, Malaya, China, Tropical Africa. 



Petiole 2-3 mm. 1. Stipules triangular. Flowers axillary, 5-2 in a 

 cluster, one female, the rest male. Pedicels slender, unequal, 3-4 times 

 as long as the petiole. Disk of minute glands. Ovary globular, 12-6- 

 celled ; styles wanting ; stigmas minute, 2-lobed. Capsule leathery or 

 fieshy, subgranulate, 2-3 mm. in diam. Seeds 8-16, irregularly 3-cornered, 

 granulate, punctulate.] 



8. P. minor Faivc. <( Rendle in Journ. Bot. hii. 65 (1919) ; 

 herb, woody below, 1./-2 ft. high, glabrous; leaves 6-15(-19) 

 mm. L, 4-8 mm. br., lateral nerves 2-4 on each side; sepals 5, 

 6 mm. L, of male roundish, of female flower ovate, some- 

 times as long as '9 mm. in fruit, with a greenish midrib; 

 filaments free ; anthers rounded, opening laterally ; styles free, 

 slender, 2-branched to about the middle, spreading or retlexed.- 

 P. nummularisefolius Britton in Journ. Torr. Bot. Club .cliu. .">' 

 (1917), (non Poir.). Type in Herb. Jam. 



Hope grounds, 700 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 12,123, 12,157, 12,20-. 



Leaves obovate-elliptical, apex blunt or rounded, base cuneate, thinly 

 membranous; petiole 1 mm. 1. ; stipules awl-shaped, 1 mm. 1. Flo;. 

 solitary or clustered in axils; pedicels slender, shorter than the leaf, 

 4-5 mm. 1. Male //o/'vr.s : J)isk of 5 shortly obovate, truncate glands. 

 Stamens 5. I' < male. Jlowers : Disk saucer-shaped, entire. Capsule 

 depressed-globular, 2 mm. in diam. Seeds 3-angled, semi-circular on 

 back, light brown colour, minutely and closely papillose, '8 mm. 1. 

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