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FLOKA OF JAMAICA 



Banunculus 



Catherine's Peak, Macfadyoi also Fggcrsl CiDchona, 5000 ft., Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 6303. N. America and mountains of Central and Northern 

 South America, Europe, N. and W. Asia, N. Africa. 



Plant 1 ft. high, villose or pubescent. Leaflets 2-4-5 cm. 1., cuneate, 

 lobed and toothed, entire in uppermost leaves. Sepals spreading, 6-7 

 mm. 1. Petals 5, obovate-elliptical, 1-1-5 cm. 1. Achcncs 2-5 mm. 1. 

 (excl. beak), with a curved beak ; receptacle slightly hairy. 



Fig. 76. Eaminculus rei^ens L. 



A, Upper portion of stem x %. 

 Bj Fruit X "i. 



C, Achene cut lengthwise X 10 ; c, endo- 

 sperui ; c, cotyledons ; r, radicle. 



2. R. reeurvatus Poir. Encyc. vi. 125 (1804); stems not 

 creeping, leaves 3-cleft. A. Gr. Synopt. Fl. N. Av.ier. (ed. JRobinson) 

 i. pt. 1, 33. 



Morse's Gap, Blue ]Mts. ; Morris ! also Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6304 ; also 

 G. Nicliols ! N. America from Nova Scotia to Florida. 



Erect, villose. Leaves mostly radical and round-cordate in outline, 

 3-cleft to beyond the middle, lobes obovate-rhomboid, incised and dentate, 

 of upper leaves oblong-lanceolate, uppermost leaves (floral) 3-5-sect and 

 sometimes entire, lanceolate, in the Jamaican specimens from Morse's 

 Gap only the lower surface is villose, the upper being quite glabrous. 

 Sepals reflexed, 3 mm. 1. Petals obovate-elliptical, 3-4*5 mm. 1. Achenes 

 minutely pitted, with a long slender circinate-revolute beak, 2 mm. 1. 

 (excl. beak) ; receptacle hispid. 



Var. tropicus comb. nov. ; leaves 3-foliate or 3-sect. 

 R. repens var. tropicus Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 1 (1859). R. 

 cubensis Griseh. Cat. Cub. 1 (1866); Urb. Symb. Ant. vi. 87. 



McNah ! Blue Mt. Peak, Macfadycn ! Portland Gap, 5600 ft,, Harris 1 

 Fl. Jam. 5891 Cuba, Hispaniola. 



