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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Polanisia 



Species 14, natives of tropics and subtropics, one (P. viscosa) 

 found throughout the tropics. 



P. viseosa DC. Prodr. i. 242 (1824). P. icosandra Wlgld k 

 Am. Prodr. 22 (1834); Wic/ht Icon. t. 2. Cleome viscosa L. Sp. 

 PI. 672 (1753) ; HooJc. f. d' Thorns. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 170. C. ico- 



Fig. 94. Polanisia viscosa DC. 

 A, Portion of flowering branch, nat. B, Flower with sepals, petals and most of 



size. 



the stamens removed X 2. 

 C, Eipe fruit, nat. size. 



Sandra L. loc. cit. Sinapistrum zeylanicum &c. 3Iartyn Hist. 23, 

 t. 25. (Fig. 94.) Type in Hermann's Herb, in Herb. Mus. 

 Brit. 



Mouth of Hope Eiver, McNab ! Wilson ! Gordon Town, Ball ! Kingston ; 

 Constant Spring ; Hitchcock ; Spanish Town ; Bath ; Harris ! Liguanea 

 Plain, Thompson\ Fl. Jam. 6823, 8071. Bermuda, Cuba, St. Thomas, 

 Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martiuique, St. Vincent. 



Plant 1-3 ft. high, pubescent with simple and glandular hairs. Leaves 

 3-5-foliolate ; leaflets oblanceolate or narrowly elliptical, equalling or 

 shorter than the petiole, upper with shorter petioles to subsessile. Flowers 

 yellow, solitary in the axils of the upper leaves. Petals obovate, about 

 1 cm. 1. Stamens 12-20. Capsule 6-8 cm. 1., striate, narrowed to the 

 apex, glandular-pubescent. Seeds about 2 mm. in diam., round, flattened, 

 shell-like, with raised transverse lines. 



