172 FLORA OF JAMAICA Talinum 



Macf. a. 169. Portulaca paniculata Jacq. Enum. PL Carih. 22 

 (1760); Sel Stirp. Amer. 148 cl- Ed. pid. t. 136 (non L.). 

 P. patens L. Mant. 242 (1771); Jacq. Hort. Vindob. ii. 71, 

 /. 151 (1772). Specimen from Jacquin in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



(Fig. 64.) 



Broughton ! Sea-side ; roadsides in the mountains, Macfadyen ; Distin ! 

 March\ August Town, 550 ft., Camphelll near Hope, 700 ft., Harris I 

 Grahham ! Mavis Bank, Fawcett ! Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. 

 Thomas, St. Cruz, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, Bequia, Barbados 

 (cult.), Grenada, Margarita, tropical continental America. 



Stems somewhat shrubby, erect from a tuberous root, 1-2^ ft. high. 

 Leaves thick, elliptical, tapering to the stalk -like base, 4-8 cm. 1., 2-4 

 cm. br. Floicers in a terminal panicle, of which the branches are cymes. 

 Sepals 3-4 mm. 1. Petals rosy or yellow, ephemeral, 4-5 mm. 1. Stamens 

 15-20. Seeds black, minutelv striolate. 



2. T. tPiangulare Willd. Sp. PI ii. 862 (1800) ; pedicels 

 with 3 angles ; sepals persistent. Haw. Succ. 123 ; Macf. 

 Jam. ii. 169 ; Griseh. op. cit. 56 ; Urh. loc. cit. T. racemosuni 

 Bohrh. torn. cit. 297 (1872). Helianthemum frutescens, Portu- 

 lacEe folio, Plum. Cat. 7 6: PL Amer. {Biirm.) t. 150, /. 2. 

 Portulaca triangularis Jacq. Enum. PI. Carih. 22 (1760) tV: 

 Hort. Vindoh. Hi. t. 52. P. racemosa L. Sp. PI. 640 (1762). 



Distinl Long Mt., 30 ft.; Pedro Plain: Harris \ Fl. Jam. 9601, 9938. 

 Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Cruz, St. Bartholomew, Guadeloupe, 

 Martinique, Grenada, Margarita, S. America. 



Succulent plant. Stems somewhat shrubby, erect, simple or much 

 branched if broken down to the branching root, to 2 ft. high. Leaves 

 obovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 2-4(-6) cm. 1., l-l-5(-2'5) cm. br. 

 Flowers in a raceme, either simple and few-fiowered, or long, branching 

 and many-flowered. Sejxds 5 mm. 1. Petals yellow, sometimes rosy or 

 white, roundish-elliptical, 8-9 mm. 1., 6 mm. br., 10-12 mm. in diam. 

 Stamens about 30. Seeds black, minutely striolate. 



Family XXI. BASELLACE^. 



Glabrous herbs with twining stems. Leaves alternate, entire. 

 Flowers small, regular, hermaphrodite, in axillary spikes or 

 panicles. Bract one at base of the pedicel. Bracteoles 2 at apex 

 of the pedicel, small. Sepals 2, sometimes adnate to the base of 

 the corolla. Corolla 5-partite. Stamens 5, inserted on a hyjDO- 

 gynous disk adnate to the base of the corolla, opposite to the 

 petals ; anthers versatile, tilaments (in West Indian species) 

 reflexed in bud. Ovary free, 1-celled, with one erect short-stalked 

 ovule. Style short ; stigmas 3, thickened towards the apex, 

 obtuse or 2-3-lobed. Seed erect. Embryo (in AVest Indian 

 species) semiannular, surrounding the endosperm. 



Species about 15, mostly American. 



Sepals not winged in fruit 1. Boussingaultia. 



Sepals winged in fruit 2. Anredera. 



