232 FLORA OF JAMAICA Capparis 



Spanish Town to Old Harbour, Macfadyen ! McNab ! St. Mary, Purdie ! 

 Bath, Wilsotil March \ Pnw! Westphalia, J. P. 1418, Ilartl Constant 

 Spring ; Spanish Town Road ; Camj^bell ! Sheldon ; Robertsfield ; near 

 Trov, 1200 ft.; Cane River Valley, 300 ft.; Potsdam, 2600 ft.; Harris \ 

 Fl. Jam. 5718, 7713, 9488, 9630, 9816. Florida and Keys, Bahamas, West 

 Indies, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Margarita, Venezuela. 



Small slender tree or sJtriib, 6-30 ft. high. Leaves glabrous on the 

 upper surface, scaly beneath ; nerves and veins indistinct above, nerves 

 sometimes prominulous beneath, veins obsolete; 4-12 cm. 1., 2-6 cm. br. ; 

 petiole 1-3 cm. 1. Floivers fragrant. Sepals 8-11 mm. 1. Petals white 

 changing to purplish, scaly outside, glabrous within, 10-13 mm. 1. 

 Stamens 20-30, purplish with yellow anthers. Ovary with the gynophore 

 about as long as the stamens. Fruit to 3 dm. and more, varying in length 

 and in its proportion to the gynophore (l'5-5 cm. 1.) sometimes as much 

 as 10 times as lon-2f. 



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2. C. indiea Fawc. & Rendle in Joiirn. Bot. Hi. 143, 4 (1914) ; 

 plant mostly covered with minute scales ; leaves narrowly oblong- 

 elliptical or sometimes narrowly elliptical ; calyx small, deeply 

 cleft ; segments subulate or lanceolate, open in bud ; stamens 

 nearly twice as long as the petals ; fruit siliquiform, somewhat 

 torulose, dry, 2-valved, showing the scarlet pulp. C. Breynia 

 L. Syst. ed. 10, 1071 (1759); Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Amer. 161, t. 103 

 & Ed. pict. 78, t 152; Eichl torn. cit. 271, t 64, /. III.; Urh. 

 torn. cit. 253 (non Siv.). C. amygdalifolia Jacq. Enum. PI. 

 Carih. 24 (1760). C. amygdalina Lam. Encijc. i. 608 (1785); 

 Griseh. torn. cit. 17 (excl. syn. Br. Jam. t. 27, /. 2). Breynia 

 indiea L. Sp). PL 503 (1753). Ceratonia affinis arbor siliquosa 

 &c. Sloane Cat. 153 & Hist. ii. 60. Salix arbor folliculifera &c. 

 PIuTl. Aim. 328, t. 221, f. 1. Breynia amygdali foliis &c. Plum. 

 Nov. PI. Amer. Gen. 40. B. elseagni foliis Plum. loc. cit. <. 16; 

 Breyn. Icon. 13, cum. t. 



WhiteWillow. 



In fl. Apr., May; in fr. July, Aug. ; Savannas, St. Jago de la Vega aiid 

 woods between the town and Passage Fort, Sloane Herb. vi. 54! Wriglitl 

 Swartz ! Arnott ! Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Cruz, St. Jan, St. Bartho- 

 lomew, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. 

 Vincent, Mustique, Barbados, Central America, Panama, Colombia, 

 Venezuela. 



Shrub or ti-ee 8-25 ft. high. Leaves glabrous on the upper side, scaly 

 beneath, 7-10 (5-11) cm. 1., 2-3*5 (-4-5) cm. br. ; petiole about 1 cm. 1. 

 Flowers near the top of the branches, very fragrant. Sepals 2-3 mm. 1. 

 Petals white, elliptical, tomentose on the inside, scaly-tomentose outside, 

 1-1-2 cm. 1. Stamens about 16. Ovary spuriously 2-celled, with the long 

 gynophore longer than the stamens. Fruit 6-25 cm. 1. 



A specimen from Mutis, probably from Colombia, in the Linnean 

 Herbarium is named C. Breynia in Linnaeus's writing. The fruits are 

 very short 2-4*5 cm. 1., with a very short gynophore, about 2 mm. 1. 



3. C. longifolia Sw. Prodr. 81 (1788); plant mostly covered 

 with minute scales; leaves linear-lanceolate, 10-15 times longer 

 than broad ; fruit siliquiform, rupturing irregularly. Siv. Fl. 

 Ind. Occ. 934 ; Mac/. Jam. i. 40 ; Eiclil. loc. cit. Salix folliculifera 



