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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



A nredera 



2. ANREDERA Juss. 



Root tuberous. Flowers in simple or branched racemes. 

 Sepals enclosin<>; the petals, keeled, and in fruit broadly winged 

 along the back. Stigmas broadened upwards, or 2-lobed. Coty- 

 ledons subclavate. 



Species 1, native of subtropical America from Texas to Peru, 

 including West Indies. 



A. seandens Moq. in DC. Frodr. xiii x^t. 2, 230 (1849); 

 Griseh. FL Br. W. Ind. 60 ; Volhens in Engl-Frantl Fflzfam. 



Fig. 66. Anredera seandens Moq. 



A, Portion of fruiting branch X g. 



B, Flower cut lengthwise x 10. 



C, Fruit showing the winged calyx x 5. 



(B ami C after Volkeus in Engl.-Prantl 

 Pflzfani.) 



Hi. jjt. 1, , 128. Fegopyrum seandens sen volubilis (fcc. Sloane 

 Cat. 46 & Hist. i. 138, t. 90, f. 1. Polygonum seandens L. Sp. 

 FL 364 (1753). Type in Herb. Linn. 



Near Spanish Town, Sloane Herb. ii. 103 ! Cuba, subtropical America. 



Leaves ovate, sometimes narrowing at the base, to 8'5 cm. 1., 6 cm. br. ; 

 lower obtuse, very shortly acuminate, upper oblong-ovate, long acuminate. 

 Peduncles 6-20 mm, 1. Spikes longer than the leaves, 2-13 cm. 1., dense- 

 flowered. Sepals in flower about 2 mm. 1., wing in fruit about 4 mm. 1. 

 Petals about 2 mm. 1. 



Cultivated in Spain, Egypt and Philippines, 



