olS FLOltA OF JAMAICA Tetrorrhiiliuin 



pt. 2, 512, /. 71, fig. 2; Url. Syml. Ant. in. 303; Pax in En(jl. 

 PflanzenreicJi ir. 147. iv. 31. (Fig- 105.) 



Gum Wood. 



Massonl Lindsay I Macfadyenl Purdiel Holly Mount, Mt. Diablo; 

 Peckham, Clarendon, 2300 ft. ; Red Hills, St. Andrew, 1000 ft. ; Albion 

 Pen, St. Ann; Harris I John Crow (Blake) Mts. Harris & Brittonl PI. 

 Jam. 8505, 8991, 10,746, 11,085, 11,840, 12,009. St. Vincent, central and 

 tropical S. America. 



Tree 15-50 ft. high. Leaves obovate- or oblanceolate-elliptical, apex 

 bluntly apiculate or blunt, leathery-membranous, entire or wavy or 

 slightly toothed, glabrous, with two glands at the junction with the petiole, 

 8-20 cm. 1. ; midrib prominent beneath, nerves slightly prominent on both 

 sides, veins few, indistinct on upper surface, slightly prominent beneath ; 

 midrib, nerves and petiole tinged with red; petiole '5-2 cm. 1. Male 

 panicle 8-18 cm. 1. ; female raceme 2-4 cm. 1. Male flowers green : Sepals 

 broadly triangular-concave, midrib keeled inside, puberulous outside, 

 pubescent inside, especially along the keel, 2 mm. 1., !? mm. br. Anthers 

 puberulous, sessile. Female flowers : Sepals broadly triangular, puberulous, 

 about 1 mm. 1. Disk-glands 1*5 mm. 1. Ovary 2-celled. Stigmas red (in 

 Poeppig's plate), spreading close to the ovary. Capsule about 8 mm. 1. 



Purdie states that the gum of this tree is collected and spread on the 

 branches of trees to catch parrots, &c. 



21. CH^TOCARPUS Thw. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, leathery, with 

 stipules. Flowers dioecious, without petals, pubescent, clustered 

 in the axils, or forming a terminal inflorescence by reduction of 

 the leaves. Disk short, ring-like, or irregularly lobed. Male 

 flowers minute : Calyx irregularly 3-5(-8)lobed, segments 

 imbricate. Stamens indefinite, springing at different levels from 

 a central column. Ovary rudimentary, terminating the central 

 column, entire or 2-3-lobed. Female flowers : Calyx as in the 

 male. Ovary 3-celled ; styles 3, distinct, 2-cleft ; ovules solitary. 

 Capsule globular, densely covered with tubercles or spines, 

 splitting up into three cocci with 2-clefb valves. Seeds with a 

 large caruncle ; coat black, shining ; endosperm fleshy ; cotyledons 

 flat, broad. 



Species 8, natives of the tropics in West Indies, South 

 America, Africa, Ceylon and India. 



C. globosus Faiuc. & Eendle in Journ. Sot. hii. 312 (1919). 

 Croton globosum Sw. Prodr. 100 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1181. 

 Ricinus globosus Willd. Sp. Fl. iv. 567 (1805). Mettenia globosa 

 Griseb. Fl. Br. W. 2nd, 43 (1859) ; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 

 pt. 2, 1255 ; Pax in Engl. Pflanzenrrich iv. 147. iv. 12. (Fig. 106.) 

 Specimens from Swartz in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



" High mts. of southern Jamaica," Swartz\ Macfadyenl Morce's Gap, 

 Purdiel Cinchona woods, J.P. 1196, 1273, Hartl road to Newton; Morce's 

 Gap, 5000 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5308, 9112. 



Tree to 30 ft., or shrub 4-5 ft. Youngest portions of twigs puberulous. 



