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FLOKA OF JAMAICA 



Drypetes 



and the disk, equal in number and opposite to the sepals (in 

 Jamaican species) or about twice as many. Anthers opening 

 inwardly, but outwardly in D. ilicifolia. Rudiment of ovary 

 minute or wanting. Female flowers : Calyx like that of the 

 male. Disk saucer-shaped, crenate. Ovary 2- or 1-celled ; 

 stigmas, 2 or 1, flattish, somewhat kidney -shaped, sessile or 

 subsessile at apex of ovary ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit 2- or 

 1-celled, somewhat fleshy outside at first, then leathery, tonoen- 

 tellous, with a hard brittle endocarp, not splitting open, with 

 two seeds or only one. Seeds without a caruncle. 



Species 13, natives of tropical and subtropical regions in 

 Florida, West Indies, Brazil and Africa. 



Leaves entire, wavy, or with small teeth. 



Stigma 2. Sepals about 2 mm. 1 1. D. ilateriflora. 



Stigma 1. Sepals about 1 mm. 1 2. D. alba. 



Leaves spiny-toothed 3. D. ilicifolia. 



1. D. lateriflora Kr. & Urb. in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 357 (1892); 

 sepals 4-5, greenish-white, elliptical, densely ciliate-pubescent on 

 margins, 2-2*5 mm. 1.; stamens longer than sepals; ovary 

 2-celled ; fruit regular in shape, with two stigmas ; leaves 

 entire. a/v7. Silv. N. Amer. mi. 27, t. 308; Small Fl. S. E. 

 U. States, 693 ; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 340. D. crocea Poit. in 

 Mem. Miis. Par. i. 159, t, 8 (1815); Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 32; 



Fig. 87. Drypetes laterifiora Kr. & Urb. 



A, Portion of flowering branch x ? . C, Female flower x 5. 



B, Male flower x 5. D, Ditto cut lengthwise X 5. 



