-f.)0 FLORA OF JAMAICA Phyllantlnis 



dioecious, male clustered, female solitary in the axils of leaves ; 

 sepals 4 in 2 series, elliptical or roundish, of male 1 '5 mm. 1., of 

 female 2 mm. 1. ; filaments 4, free ; anthers opening longitu- 

 dinally ; ovary 5-4-celled (rarely 3-celled) ; styles united below, 

 5-3, 2-lobed or 2-cleft or variously divided ; fruit barely 

 1 cm. in diam. Muell. Arg. in. FL Bras. xi. pt. 2, 69 ; Urb. 

 Syitib. Ant. iv. 339. Euonymus margaritifera &c. Pluk. Pliyt. 

 t. 176, /. 4. Margaritaria nobilis L. f. Suppl. 428 (1781) (excl. 

 male plant). Cicca antillana A. Juss. Euphorb. Tent. t. 4, /. 13 t 

 (1824) ; Griseb. op. cit. 



Bastard Hog Berry. 



Troy 1600-2200 ft. ; Harris \ Fl. Jam, 8698, 9450, 9490. West Indies, 

 tropical S. America, Panama. 



Stipules triangular, acuminate, 3-4 mm. 1., entire. Disk of both sexes 

 entire, of the male adhering to the sepals below, of female narrow, ring- 

 like. Fruit : Pericarp at first fleshy, at ler>gth drying up and dividing 

 into 5-3 cocci, depressed-globular. Seeds somewhat plano-convex to 

 3-sided, smooth, greanish-brown, 3 mm. in diam. 



13. P. glabellus Fawc. & Rendle in Journ. Bot. Ivii. 68 



(1919); petiole long, ^^ the length of the blade. P. tremulus 



Griseb. FL Br. W. Ind. 34 (1859) : Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 



pt. 2, 330. Croton glabellum L. Amcen. v. 383, 409, & Sp. PL 



ed. 2, 1425 (excl. syn. Sloane & Browne^). 



Browne ! Wright ! Purdie\ Wullschlaegel ; Bound Hill, Santa Cruz 

 Mts., 1600 ft. ; Malvern to Mountainside, 400 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9707, 

 9903. Type from Browne in Herb. Linn. 



Shrub or small tree 6-15 ft. high. Leaves 3-9' 5 cm. 1., broadly ellip- 

 tical, conspicuously lighter-coloured beneath, glabrous ; stipules lanceolate- 

 linear, -5 cm. L, deciduous. Male flowers minute, clustered, lateral; 

 pedicels slender, 9-11 mm. 1. Sepals 10, in two series, the outer elliptical- 

 oblong, 1-5 mm. 1., the inner oblong-lanceolate, larger, to 2*5 mm, 1. 

 Disk saucer-shaped, crenate, *6 mm. 1. Filaments united into a short 

 column, about '5 mm. 1. Anthers 4, close together, attached round the 

 margin of the peltate connective, opening transversely. Female ftoivers : 

 Pedicels solitary or a few together, about as long as those of the male, 

 increasing in fruit to 3 '5-4' 5 cm. 1. Sepals 10, the two series very 

 unequal ; outer series broadly oblong, ultimately 2 mm. L, inner series 

 thin, linear-oblong, ultimately 3'5 mm. 1. Disk cup-like, margin wavy 

 or lobed, *5 mm. 1. S^Ze-branches sessile on apex, 2-lobed, fleshy. 

 Capsules at first somewhat fleshy, depressed-globular, 8-10 mm. in diam. 

 Seeds 6-3, often all abortive, flattish ellipsoidal, buff-coloured, smooth, 

 4 '5 cm. 1. 



B. Flowering branches flattened, generally leaf-like, of firm 

 leathery texture, notched, with the flowers clustered in 

 the notches. Branches ("penultimate branches") that 

 bear the flowering branches, in P. epiphyllanthus normal, 

 woody and rounded ; in P. montanus slightly modified ; in 

 the rest similar in substance to the flowering branches, 

 and more or less flattened and linear. The penultimate 



