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pedicel. Female Hower solitary in the centre of the involucre. 

 Perianth of three minute scales or wanting. Ovary sessile at the 

 top of the pedicel, .'5-celled : styles united into a long protruding 

 column, very shortly free at the apex, the branches entire or 

 2-cleft. Ovules solitary in each ceil. Capsule breaking up 

 elastically from the persistent axis into three 2-valved cocci. 

 Seeds with endosperm; caruncle wanting; cotyledons broad. 



Species 31, natives of tropical America from Mexico to 

 northern Brazil and the West Indies. 



Leaves and involucres hoary ................................... 1. P 



Leaves and involucres not hoary. 



Leaves obovate to oblanceolate ........................ "2. P. janiaiccnsis. 



[Leaves ovate to ovate-orbicular ........................ P. latifolius.'] 



1. P. Grisebachii Millet. <( Britfon /// rifld t',,1. Mm*. Bot. ii. 

 3G1 (1913) ; leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear, narrowed to 

 the base, hoary, 1-3 cm. \. } 3-4 mm. br. ; involucres hoary 



A, Cvatliimn of P. jamaicensis Millsp. 

 & I'.ritton X 2. 



]', Ditto of ;iu older Mower of sanio X 2 ; 

 /, involucre, with./', fissure ; a. app.-n- 

 di\ with ;;, jrlands : /, tuhr of invo- 

 lucre ; /, lateral lolie ; in, median 



lolie ; ". ovarx vijieiiin^ into the 

 capsule: >>, stylar column. 



(', Capsule of /'.' (,') ;<i'/>aclih' 



r.i-itton x .". 



I). Seed of ditto X 3. 



, glabrous within; male pedicel glabrous, tVni;ilr pedicel 

 cms. (Fig. 114, c, n.) Type in Herb. N. York I Jot. 



without 



puberulous 

 Gard. 



Long Mt. above Rock Fort, l:>-<>n<iiiln ! m-ar Hull Buy, //,//>?' .s ! also 

 I ; nt ton 8077! Fl. Jam. 'JC-ir,, 12,117. Porto Kk-o (lido Millspaugh). 



Shrubby plant, 8 G ft. high. Leaves only on the young branches. 

 Cymes terminal on the branches. Involucres 0'5- ( J mrn. 1., scarlet; tube 



