Hernandia HERXANDIACE.^l 221 



2. H. eatalpifolia Britton d- Harris In Torreya ii. 174, (1911) ; 

 leaves 5-nerved at or near the base. (Fig. 90, A-F.) 



In fl. Sept. ; in fr. March ; von Bohr ! between Sunning Hill and Water 

 Valley, St. Thomas; north side of CunaCuna pass; south-eastern foothills 

 of John Crow (Blake) Mts. ; Harris tC Britton ! Fl. Jam. 10,5GG, 10,588, 

 10,685. 



Tree 30-50 ft. high. Tiuigs, when young, very minutely puberulous. 

 Leaves chartaceous, broadly elliptical or roundish-elliptical, or broadly 

 ovate, apex sometimes very shortly acuminate, base rounded, obtuse, or 

 subtruncate, nerves and veins Hat above, prominent beneath, minutely 

 puberulous on nerves beneath when young, at length glabrous, 9-21 cm. 1., 

 0-15-5 cm. br. ; petiole minutely tomentellous, 3-11 cm. 1. Inflorescence 

 (incl. peduncle) tomentellous, 9-18 cm. 1. Involucral bracts obovate- 

 elliptical, 6 mm. 1. Male Jloivcr : 2>^^"iantJi-segTaeiits G, white, outer ellip- 

 tical, 5 mm. 1., 3 mm. br,, inner oblong-elliptical, rather shorter and 

 narrower; sta7nens 3. Female floioer : perianth-segments 8, similar to 

 those of the male flower but narrower, white ; staminodes 4, subglobose, 

 fleshy. Fruit subglobose, about 2 cm. 1., enveloped by the involucel. 



Family XXX. PAPAYERACE^. 



Herbs, sometimes shrubs, often with coloured juice. Leaves 

 alternate, often lobed ; stipules wanting. Flowers hermaphro- 

 dite, regular. Sepals 2 or 3, free, imbricate, very caducous. 

 Petals 4-6 or wanting, hypogynous, free, imbricate, deciduous. 

 Stamens hypogynous, numerous, free. Ovary free, 1 -celled, 

 with parietal placentas. Fruit capsular, dehiscing by pores or 

 valves. Embryo generally minute, but large in Argemone ; 

 endosperm fleshy, oily. 



Species about 300, growing in the temperate and subtropical 

 regions of the northern hemisphere, and a very few within the 

 tropics and in the southern hemisphere. 



Petals present 1. Argemone. 



Petals wanting 2. Bocconia. 



1. ARGEMONE L. 



Glaucescent herbs (rarely shrubby), with light yellow juice. 

 Leaves sessile, inciso-pinnatifid with spiny teeth. Ovary with 

 4-7 placentas ; ovules numerous ; stigmas distinct. Capsule 

 opening by 4-7 short valves at the apex, leaving a replum of 

 as many filiform placentas. Embryo cylindrical in the axis of 

 the endosperm, and two-thirds its length. 



Species 9, all American, of which one is found naturalised in 

 all tropical lands. 



A. mexicana L. Sp. PL 508 (1753); Mill. Ic. 33, /. 50; 

 Lam. Ennjr. III. t. 452; Bot. Ma,j. t. -h'd ; Writjht Mem. 189, 



