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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



S a ri'i 



1. S. sessiliflora Wilhl Sp. PL iv. 771 (1806) ; leaves elliptical 

 to ovate-lanceolate, usually acuminate, stiffly membranous, on the 

 midrib especially at the base and the petioles densely hirto- 

 pubescent, otherwise glabrous. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. 

 L>t. 2, 231 ; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 337, vi. 90. Croton sessiliflorus 

 Sw. Prodr. 100 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1179. Phyllanthus 

 laurifolius A. Rich, in Sacjra Cub. xi 216, t. 70 (1850). 

 P. pubigerus A. Rich. loc. cit. (Fig. 89.) 



Fig. 89. Savia sessiliftora Willd. 



A, Male flower ; p, petal ; d, disk x 11. 



B, Female flower ; p, petal ; d, disk, enlarged. After Jussieu. 

 C, Coccus with 2 seeds x 3. 



Swartz. Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Cruz, St. Jan. 



Shrub or tree 12-24 ft. high. Young tiuigs hirto-pubescent. Leaves 

 4-8 cm. 1. Stipules triangular, acuminate, soon falling, 1-5 mm. 1. 

 Sepals pubescent. Petals of both sexes 3-5, sublinear or partly rudimentary, 

 or wanting sometimes in female flowers. Male flowers about 2 mm. 1. 

 Stamens 3 mm. 1. Female flowers : Ovary glabrous. Capsule glabrous, 

 8-10 mm. in diam. Seeds solitary, 5 mm. 1., broadly ellipsoidal. 



We have not seen a specimen from Jamaica. The species is included 

 on the authority of Mueller, who states that he saw in Herb. DC. a 

 specimen collected in Jamaica by Swartz. 



2. S. erythroxyloides Griseb. in Mem. Am. Acad. n.s. viii. 

 157 (1860); leaves obovate-elliptical, with apex usually rounded, 

 narrowed to the base, leathery, glabrous. Muell. Arg. torn. cit. 230. 



Albion Mt., St. Thomas in the East, Harris I FL Jam. 11,683, 12,196, 

 12,198. 



Shrub or small tree, 6-20 ft. high. Leaves 2-6 cm. 1., somewhat 

 prominently net-veined, especially on the upper surface; petioles 

 3-5 mm. 1. Capsule tomentellous in young state, glabrous when ripe, 

 globular, somewhat flattened at top and bottom, reddish-brown tomen- 

 tellous when young, glabrous mature, about 8 mm. in diam. Seeds 

 3-angled, brown, 4-5 mm. 1. 



