Adelia KlTHoitBIACE.i: 293 



5 mm. 1., puberulou-. tlattened-globular-3-lobed. Seeds globular, 3 mm. 

 in diain., light brown. 



2. A. hsemiolandra Pa.c in tinker's Pjlan^-nfich ii: 147. 

 n'. 77 (1912) ; leaves oblauceolate ; stamens 15, springing from 

 a central column, ten about halfway, five higher up. Ditaxis 

 haeiuiolandra Griteb. Fl. Bi: W. Ind. 44 (1850). Ricinelk 

 hsemiolandra MitelL Arcj. in DC. Prodr. .n: pt. '1, 730 (1866). 

 Type in Herb. Kew. 



Mucfadyen ! Purdie ! 



Shrub with white bark, branches sometimes with axillary spi. 

 glabrous. Leaves 4-7 (3-8) cm. 1. ; petiole 3-4 mm. 1. Male flowers : 

 Pedicels about as long as the flower. Calyx tomentellous outside, about 

 3 mm. 1., sepals more or less equal, oblong-ovate, acute. Disk irregularly 

 lobed, lobes opposite sepals. Female flowers not seen. 



12. LASIOCROTON Griseb. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, nerves pinnate. Flowers 

 monoecious or dioecious, without petals, in spikes, or racemes, or 

 panicles, which are solitary in the upper axils ; the male spikes 

 with flowers densely crowded in clusters, the female racemes 

 long, lax, with several stalked distant flowers ; pedicels jointed. 

 31 ale flowers : Calyx ovoid, closed in bud, at length splitting 

 into five valvate segments. Disk poorly developed. Stain* M- 

 8 to l'*\ Rudiment of ovary wanting. Female flowers: Calvx 

 small, .~)-p;irted, spreading, open in bud. Disk thick, entire. 

 Ovary 3 -celled; styles very shortly united below, short, thick. 

 undivided or 2-lobed, apex very shortly fringed ; ovules solitary. 

 Capsule deeply 3-lobed-globular, splitting up into three 2-vahed 

 cocci. Seeds globular, without a caruncle. 



Species .> or 4, natives of Jamaica, Bahamas and Cuba. 



Venation of leaves beneath very prominent. Styles 



not cleft halfway ............................................ 1. 7,. 



Venation of leaves beneath not prominent. Styles 

 2-cleft halfway. 



Leaves glabrous beneath. Petioles long, 



7-2-5 cm. 1 ........................................ 2. L. Fawcettii. 



Leaves tomentose beneath. Petioles short, 



2-1 cm. 1 ........................................... o. L. 



1. L. macrophyllus Griseb. Fl. P>r. II". Ltd. Hi (1859); 

 U'a\*js ")-14 cm. 1.. roundish, elliptical, or o\;itr. apex ai-ute. 

 "lituse, or rounded, base slightly cordate, leathery, tomt-iit <>.-. 

 and soft t* the touch on both sides, ner\es and \eins 'verv 







prominent beneath, more or le^s evident above, two on each side 

 near the base: petioles l*~)-4 cm. L, tomentose: .-tyle- : 

 divided. -Of/"///. .I/-//, in DC. Prodr. xv. ft. 2, ; Millsp. iu 



