Persea 



LAUEACEiE 



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Farm Hill ; Silver Hill Gap, 3500 ft. ; Orchard, 2500 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 

 5116, 5255, 5335, 5372, 5382, 5489, 5520, 5574, 5734, 5839, 5841, 5844, 58G4, 533G. 

 A tree 25-30 ft. high. Leaves elliptical, narrowly elliptical, or oblong- 

 elliptical, more or less attenuated at both ends or obtuse, areolate on both 

 surfaces, nerves impressed or flat above, prominent beneath, glabrous 

 above, tomentellous beneath, G-12 cm. 1., 2-2-G*5 cm. br. Inflorescence 

 tomentellous. Perianth, outer segments 1-5-2 mm. 1., inner 3-4 mm. 1. 

 Berry globose, black, 1-2 cm. in diam. 



3. P. Urbaniana Mcz in Juhh. Boi. Gart. Berl. v. 143 (1889) ; 

 inflorescence few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves, 

 branchlets 1 -flowered at the apex or with a few subumbellate 

 flowers ; Howers 3-4 mm. 1. ; outer segments of perianth about 

 ;3- as long as the inner ; filaments a little longer than the anthers ; 

 anthers of the inner ring 2-celled. 



" Jamaica, Dr. WrigJit? " in Herb. Kew. ! ^Martinique. 



A tree or shrub. Leaves broadly elliptical, nerves impressed above, 

 prominent beneath, veins inconspicuous, glabrous above except sparingly 

 puberulous on central nerve, puberulous beneath, 12-18 cm. 1., 4-8 5 cm. 

 br. Berry globose, transversely compressed, 1*5 cm. 1., l-G-1-7 cm. br. 



4. PHCEBE Xees. 



Leaves in P. montana subtriplinerved. Perianth persistent in 

 fruit, segments equal. Stamens 9 ; anthers of the outer ring 4-celled, 



Fig. S6. P/uvbe monta7ia Griseb. 



A, Portion of flowering branch x jj. D, Alternate perianth-segment with an 



B, Flower-biul X 10. outer stamen and a stiiminode X 10. 

 V, Perianth-segment with an outer and an E, Pistil X 10. 



inner stamen X 10. F, Fruit X jj. 



G, Fruit cut lengthwise X ii- 



