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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Ximenia 



Species 5, one in tropical America, Africa and Asia, one in 

 Mexico, one in Brazil, one in South Africa, and one in New 

 Caledonia. 



X. americana i. Sp. PI 1193 (1753); Wright Mem. 266; 

 Gnseh. FL Br. W, Lid. 310 ; Engl, in Fl. Bras. xii. pt. 2, 9, t. 2, 

 /.I. X, multiflora Jncq. Fnum. 19 (1760) & >S'^'/. Stirp. Amer. 

 ed. pict. t. 107. X. aculeata Tiiss. Ant. Hi. 100 /. 30 (1824). 

 X. montana 3Iacf. Jam. 121 (1837). X. aculeata flore &c. Plum. 

 PI. Amer. (Biirm.) t. 261, /. 1 & Ic. ined. v. t. 258. Amyris? 

 arborescens kc. Browne Jam. 209. (Fig. 23.) 



Wrightl March; near Browns Town, Costal Montego Bay, Austinl 

 Content Road, 3000 ft.; Potsdam, St. Cruz Mts., 2600 ft.; Harrisl Fl. 

 Jam. C013, 9749. 



Shrub or tree, 10-40 ft. high. Tivigs angled. Leaves 3*5-6 cm. 1., 2-4 

 cm. br., elliptical, apex obtuse, sometimes mucronate or emarginate, 

 cuneate at base. ^Zo?(;e?'s sweet-scented. Petals 6-9 mm. 1., white, linear ; 

 hairs on inside very dense. Dru'pe yellow, about the size of a pigeon's 

 egg, flesh subacid-sweet, edible. 



2. SCHCEPFIA Schreb. 



Glabrous shrubs or small trees. Flowers in short racemes 

 which are solitary or clustered in the axils. Calyx cup-shaped. 

 Disk adnate to the ovary wdth an entire margin, increasing 

 as the ovary rij^ens, almost enveloping the fruit. Petals 4-6, 



Fig. 24. Schcepfia multiflora Uib. 



A, Flower-bearing shoot. 



B, Flowers. 



C, A pair of empty calyxes. 



D, Flower with corolla cut open ; 



c, calyx ; d, disk appearing above 

 calyx. 



E, Drupe ; m, margin of disk. 



inserted at the margin of the disk, cohering into a tubular- 

 campanulate corolla, free at the apex. Stamens equal in number 

 and opposite to the petals, adnate to the corolla-tube. Ovary 

 half -immersed in the disk. Drupe ringed near the apex with 

 the margin of the adnate disk. 



Species 18, natives of tropical America and Asia. 



