102 FLOKA OF JAMAICA Hyperhana 



Forsyth ; j\It. Diabolo, Prior ; near Lightliouse, Nogril (fruit, in 

 ]\Iarch), Harrisl Fl. Jam. 10,235. Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Kico, 

 St. Eustatius, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Guiana, Brazil. 



Climbing shrub (Diels) or tree 30 ft. high (Harris). Leaves variable in 

 shape, elliptical to ovate and to oblanceolate, sometimes pubescent on the 

 nerves beneath, 4-18 cm. 1., 2*5-11 cm. br., nerves and veins minutely 

 reticulate, generally prominent on both sides (when dry) ; petiole 

 1-2-5 cm. 1., and often kneed below the blade. Inflorescence 5-25 cm. 1., 

 male decompound, female shorter; branches more or less puberulous. 

 Sepals 1*5-1 "8 mm. 1. Driipe 2 cm. 1., scarlet, finally black. 



2. H. Prioriana 3Iiers Contrih. Bot. Hi 301 (1871); male 

 inflorescence longer than the petiole, lateral cymules 2-3 mm. 1., 

 rhachis and pedicles ferrugineo-puberulous ; drupe small, "7 cm. 

 in diam. Diels torn. cit. 201. 



Moneague, Prior ! Malvern (fr. in Sept.) ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9920. 



Tree 30 ft. high. Leaves ovate to lanceolate 4*5-7 cm. 1., 2-4 cm. br., 

 nerves and veins minutely reticulate, prominent on both sides (when dry) ; 

 petiole 2-4 cm. 1. hiflorescence raceme-like, 3-4*5 cm. 1. ; rhachis and 

 pedicels ferrugineo-puberulous. Sepals 1*6 mm. 1. Drupe obliquely globose- 

 reniform. 



3. H. laurifolia TJrh. S/jmh. Ant. i. 304 (1899); inflorescence 

 not longer than the petiole, rhachis and pedicels ferrugineo- 

 tomentellous ; drupe 2 '5-3 cm. in diam. Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 

 238 ; Diels torn. cit. 203. H. reticulata BentJi. loc. cit. (in part). 

 H. valida Miers in A7in. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3, xix. 95 (1867) 

 ct Contrih. Bot. iii. 302. Cissampelos laurifolia Poir. Encyc. v. 11. 



Holland Bay (fr. in July), Purdie. Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Mont- 

 serrat. 



A small tree 10-16 ft. high. Leaves oblong to lanceolate, 7-22 cm. 1., 

 3-7 cm. br. ; nerves and veins minutely reticulate, prominent on both 

 sides (when dry) ; petiole 1 * 5-3 cm. 1. Liflorescences raceme-like, clustered. 

 Sepals -75-1*5 mm. 1. 



2. CISSAMPELOS L. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves roundish or roundish-ovate, 

 subcordate, peltate or with the stalk inserted at the margin. 

 Male flowers in paniculate-corymbose cymes ; female in simple 

 cymes, generally in clusters at the axils of roundish bracts. 

 Male flow^ers : sepals 4 ; petals united into a short cup ; 

 stamens connate into a column, peltate at the apex with 4 sessile 

 anthers on the margin (in the W. Indian species). Female 

 flowers : sepal 1 ; petal 1, opposite the sepal, and shorter than 

 it; carpel 1, style 3-lobed, lobes sometimes 2-lobed. Drupe 

 subglobose, more or less hispid. Embryo curved, within the 

 endosperm ; radicle as long as the cotyledons. 



Species about 20, natives of tropical America and South 

 Africa, one {C. pai'eira) being found in tropics of both worlds. 



