88 FLOKA OF JAMAICA Ormosiii 



unequal ; anthers versatile. Style with apex folded in ; stigma 

 lateral, on the inner side. Pod compressed, thick and leathery, 

 2-valved. Seeds few, attached by a cartilaginous flexuose stalk. 

 Species 20, natives of the tropics in America, Asia, and two 

 species in Africa. 



0. jaraaieensis Urh. Symb. Ant. v. 366 (1908). (Fig. 29.) 



Nickel. 



Road from Askenish to Dolphin Head, and on the Dolphm slope, 

 Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 9241. 



A tall timber tree, with a straight trunk up to 80 ft. in height and 

 over 3^ ft. in diameter; head dense and leafy. Leaflets in 4(-5) pairs, 

 elliptical to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base obtuse or acute, 5-11 (12) 

 cm. 1., 2-3-5 (4) cm. br. ; petiolule 5-6 mm. 1. Peduncle 2-2-5 cm. 1. 

 fruit-bearing rhachis 6-18 cm. 1. Pod glabrous, 1-seeded, 4-5 cm. 1. ; or 

 2-seeded, 6 cm. 1. Seeds fiattened-globose, scarlet with a black ovate- 

 acuminate -spot near the attachment, about 1*5 cm. 1., and almost as 

 broad, about 1 cm. thick. 



"Nickel" is a corruption of "necklace," as the beads are used to make 

 necklaces. 



§ 12. Trees. Leaves imparipinnate, usually reduced to 1 

 leaflet in the Jamaican species. Calyx closed before 

 flowering, and then bursting into 2-4 irregular segments. 

 Petals 1 in the standard. Stamens numerous, distinct. 

 Pod ellipsoidal or oblong. 



30. SWARTZIA Schreb. 



Trees. Leaves imparipinnate or reduced to 1 leaflet in 

 S. simplex. Flowers racemose or solitary. Calyx closed before 

 flowering, and then bursting irregularly. Petal 1 (standard), 

 broad, corrugate, the rest wanting, or 2 lateral, very small, some- 

 times petals altogether wanting. Stamens numerous, distinct, sub- 

 hypogynous. Pod leathery or fleshy, 2-valved or not opening. 



Species 60, natives of tropical America and one of tropical 

 Africa. 



S. simplex Spreng. Syst. ii. 567 (1825); Urh. Symh. Ant. v. 

 364. S. simplicifolia Willd. Sp. PI. ii 1219 (1800). S. grandi- 

 flora Willd. torn. cit. 1220 (1800); Wils. in Beports Geolog. Jam. 

 277 ; Benth. in Fl. Bras. xv. pt. 2, 18 ; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 

 211. Possira simplex Sw. Prodr. 82 (1788). Rittera simplex 

 VaM Symh. ^^. "60 (1791). R. grandiflora Vahl Eclog. Amer. ii. 

 37 & Ic. t. 9 (1798). Tounatea simplex Tauhert in Bot. CentralbJ. 

 xlvii. 391 (1891). (Fig. 30.) 



Wilson ; March; Bath Garden, J. P. 1011, Morris ! Castleton Garden, 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 8449, 9279. — Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent, Bequia, 

 Trinidad, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica. 



A small tree, 18-20 ft., glabrous. Leaflets lanceolate to elliptical, 

 usually acuminate, 8-14 cm. 1. ; petiolules 2-5 mm. 1. ; stipules linear, 



