NOTES ON JAMAICA PLANTS 67 



dium in lobos 2 aut 3 patentes lineares divisis, vel etiam dichotomis. 

 Gapsulce ignotse. Types in Herb. Mus. Brit, et in Herb. Jam. 



Kah. In a garden, St. Ann, ^rior ! Ramble, Claremont, 1700 ft., 

 Faivcett Sf Harris ! 7025. 



This species is named in honour of the late Hon. H. E. Cox, owner 

 of the estate on which it was found. 



Also near P. speciosiis Jacq., but has somewhat larger flowers, 

 the anther-cells united, a larger female disc, and styles united at the 



Phtllanthus latifolius Sw. 



There has been some confusion with regard to this species. The 

 specific name originated with Linnaeus (Mantissa 221, 1771), who 

 gives a short diagnosis, but definitely refers to the description by 

 Patrick Browne — " characterem generis ex hac specie Brownii." This 

 can only refer to Phyllanthus no. 1 of Browne, which alone includes 

 a floral description, Browne's species no. 2 containing only a specific 

 diagnosis. 



From Browne's description it is evident that the disk in the 

 female flower does not form a continuous ring or cup, but is reduced 

 to minute glands equal in number with the sepals, which glands 

 Browne describes as 5 very short stamens with subrotund anthers 

 situate round the base of the ovary. 



A sheet in Herb. Banks (Herb. Mus. Brit.) with specimens from 

 Jamaica from Masson and others, is written up by Swartz Xylopliylla 

 latifolia, and is probably the plant on which Swartz's first reference 

 to X. latifolia {Prodromus 28) is based. We regard this plant as 

 conspecific with Browne's (i. e., X. latifolia L.). Swartz in his 

 subsequent descriptions (Obs. Bot. 113, 1791, and Fl. Ind. Occ. 1109) 

 evidently refers to the same species, as he describes the disk in the 

 female flower as Browne does, and cites Browne's description. He 

 also cites Plukenet's PhytograpJiia, t. 36. f. 7, and Sloane, Cat. 16 & 

 Hist.- i. 80 ; there are good specimens from Sloane in Herb. Sloane 

 which agree with the plant in Herb. Banks. In Fl. Ind. Occ. Swartz 

 transfeiTed the species to Phyllanthus. G-risebach seems to have had 

 a correct view of the species, as a specimen of McNab's in Herb. 

 Edinburgh is wi'itten up by him as Phyllanthus latifolius. 



Mueller (DC. Prodr. xv. 2, 431) in describing P. latifolius Sw. 

 refers to the female flower as having a deep cup-shaj^ed entire disk 

 equal in height to the ovary. His description is based solely on a 

 specimen from Swartz in the Stockholm Herbarium. We have not 

 seen this specimen, but there is in Herb. Banks one collected by 

 Swartz in Jamaica which he has named " Xylophylla latifolia var.," 

 in which the female flowers have this cup-shaped disk. We regard 

 this as a new species (P. Swartzii). Urban (Symb. Ant. iii. 290) 

 has been misled by Mueller's description of the female flower, and 

 has redescribed the original X. latifolia as a new species, P. isolepis. 

 In the Linnean Herbarium there is a sheet with two specimens 

 without flowers named in Solander's hand Phyllanthus Epiphyl- 

 lanthus. Smith has written below the one on the left " Phyllanthus 

 n. 2. Br." — this specimen is P. angustifolius Sw. : below the other 

 he wrote "Ph. no. 1, Br."— this is P. latifolius Sw. Linnaeus 



