Bern.: EUl'I!<>j;i;iA K.K 2! 1 



-'/' \rg. !u Linumi xxxiv. \7'2 (ISiif^ t v /// !)('. Prodi: ./ /. 



j /'/. -. 917; r/7>. ,S///,</'. .I///. /V. .'Jl-">. !'- viscosa Griseb. in Me-m. 

 Am,!. Amcr. Set.' A Art. //.>. ////. l-'.O (l^GO). B. Bernardia 

 M'lll^,. ; lt Fir!,! Cnl. Mus. lint. ii. 58, 155 (1000). Adelia 

 Bernardia I. ,S',,x/. ed. lU, 12!>* ( 1 7-V.)) & 4wio?w. v. 383. (Fig. 94. > 

 There is a specimen from i'>n>\\ m- in Herb. Linn. in renus cover 

 A'h_-i;,i, and iijunrd ly ],inn;"iis llrrimrib'n. A type from Grischach 

 is in Herb. Ke\v. 



Houstoun\ fi,-uirnc\ U'l 



.o- Mt., 350 ft., Campbell ! 'Mound Hill, St. Cruz Mts., 1GOO ft. : Luana 

 Point; Long Mt., 100 ft.: Alliion ^lt., St. Thomas; Harris \ Fl. Jam. 

 614' . .'704, y<0i2, 11,045, 12,1'J^. Buhanui>, Cuba, Cayman, Hispaniohi. 

 Porto iiico, St. Vincent. 



.\ -traggling shrub, 2-18 ft. or tree 25 ft. high, monoecious or dioeciou^. 

 Leaves 3-10 cm. 1., elliptical-ovate, oblong-ovate, or lanceolate, serrate, 

 tomento.se with some stellate hairs on both sides; nerves 2 on each side 

 at base, pinnate, slightly prominent beneath ; petiole 5-12 cm. 1., 

 tomentose; stipules linear-acuminate, 2 mm. 1. Spikes "S-3'4 cm. 1. or 

 shorter, tomentose. Bracts: male, about 1*5 mm. 1., densely puberulous 

 out.-ide, transversely somewhat elliptical, margin serrate, with 3-5 flowers ; 

 female, one with 2 bracteoles under each flower, narrowly o\ate. Male 

 Jiuirt-rf opening after fall of subtending leaf: Calyx about 2 mm. 1., 

 puberulous outside; segments elliptical, acute. Receptacle glandular. 

 Stamens 15-25, longer than the calyx. Female flmrerx : Calyx about 

 2-5111111.1., puberulous outside; segments unequal, ovate, acute. Ovary 

 densely tomentose. Capsule globular-3-lobed, tonieutose, 7 mm. 1. Seeds 

 globu!-.' - v.)id, slightly 3-angled, marbled with blackish marks, 6 mm. 1. 



11. ADELIA L." (in part). 



bs, glabrous (except inflorescence), more or less spinv. 

 Leav--- alternate or crowded at the noilrs, membranous <>r 

 papery / \vlien dry), entire : petioles very short. l r lowers small, 

 din-rii.il.->, without petals, clustered on cushions in axils of lea 1 

 the ni'ile short-stalked or sessile, the female lon^-stalkeil. 

 8olitai'\' or in clusters of "1 or :>. .Male flowci's : Calvx rlosed in 



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bud, valv.-itely 5-parted in flowering. Disk attached to the IKIM- 

 of the calyx. Stamens S-15: filaments attached to a central 

 column or prominence: anther^ YI -rs-uile. attadu-d m-ar the ba^e 

 at the back, cells parallel, opening longitudinally. Female 

 flower* : C/nly\ .">-pa iM ed. valvate. I >isk flattened. ()\ai-v 

 "> celled : styles .'5, I'etlexed-spreading, much c-ut ; ovules solitarv. 

 Capsule splitting up in three I'-valved COCCi. Seed> suli^lobulai'. 

 without a caruncle. 



Species about 10, natives of the We^t Indirs and Central 



America. 



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* .' "f i'.r.jwne (Hist. Jam. 861, t. '('.. f. ',) \- 1' / /<> -nlos,! 



I'oir. (litK.yc. Snppl. ii. (\6i) = Aliiricn >. ///v.m/,/ -Incq. (Coll. ii. Z 

 .' ifn Kuutze IJ'-v. Gon. ii. t(X) (Ol > }. 



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