118 FLOE A OF JAMAICA Bauhinia 



long-stalked with exserted ovary, in hermaphrodite flowers 4-5 cm, 1., in 

 male flowers 6-10 mm. 1. Pod generally only 1 in a raceme, linear or 

 irregular in outline, 6-12 cm. 1., 1-1-5 cm. br., beaked with persistent style. 

 Seeds 3-9, flattened-ellipsoidal, 6-8 mm. 1. 



[B. monandra Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. Beng. xlii. pt. 2, 73 

 (1873); petals 4-5 cm. 1., 2-2*5 cm. br., rosy-pink; stamens 

 1 fertile, much longer than the rest. — B. Kappleri Sagot in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 6, xiii. 317 (1882) ; Urb. Symh. Ant. «. 315 & 

 iv. 271 ; Cook & Coll. in Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. viii. 90, t. 19. 

 B. Krugii Urb. in Ber. Deutach. Bot. Ges. Hi. 83, t. viii. f. 2, 9, 

 18 (1885). . . ■ 



Jerusalem Date, Butterfly Flower. 



Common in gardens and fences ; St. George, Watt 1 Bamble, Hanover, 

 Fawcett\ Lucea, Hitchcock; Hope Gardens, Harris \ Fl. Jam. 12,837. — 

 Cultivated, and, as it were, spontaneous in Jamaica and other West Indian 

 islands, probably native in Guiana. 



Shrub or small tree, 12-16 ft. high. Leaves 11-13-nerved, base truncate 

 or shallow-cordate, 5-16 cm. 1. and br. ; leaflets united ^-§ of their length, 

 glabrous on the upper surface, puberulous on the nerves beneath. Raceme 

 lew-flowered, somewhat corymbose. Pedicels about 3 cm. 1., densely 

 puberulous. Flowers hermaphrodite, or with ovary abortive. Receptacle 

 about 3*5 cm. 1., 3 mm. br. above, densely puberulous. Calyx tomen- 

 tellous, with the points free, mucronate or dentate, about 2 cm. 1. Petals 

 obovate, clawed. Stamens, one fertile, 4-4 "5 cm. I., the rest all sterile, 

 10-2 mm. 1., 5 free, the rest more or less united. Pistil, stalk 2-3 cm. 1., 

 adherent to the receptacle, the free part about as long as the fertile 

 stamen, in male flowers 4-5 mm. 1. ; ovary puberulous, at length glabrate. 

 Pod generally only one in a raceme, broadly linear, straight, 18-22 cm. 1., 

 about 2-5 cm. br., with a short beak (style) 1-1-5 cm. 1. Seeds 16-22, 

 separated by a flocculent pithy substance, flattened-ellipsoidal, 10-12 

 mm. 1., 6-8 mm. br. 



"There are miles of this species used as a roadside fence plant in 

 St. Mary. The trees are pollarded, and they then produce long pliable 

 branches which make a good wattle fence when properly plaited" (Harris).] 



[B. tomentosa L. Sp. PI. 375 (1753); petals 4-5 cm. 1., 

 golden yellow with a deep purple blotch at the base of the upper 

 one ; stamens 10 fertile. — Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5560 ; Bak. 

 in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 275 ; Urb. in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. 

 iv. 251 & Symb. Ant. iv. 271. B. pubescens DC. Leg. Mem. 483 

 (1825) (fide Urb.). B. ungula Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 214 (1860) 

 (in part) (non Jacq.). B. variegata Griseb. loc. cit. (non L.). 

 B. foliis subrotundis &c. Burm. Zeyl. 44, t. 18. Mandaru &c. 

 Pluk. Phyt. t. 44, /. 6. 



Bertero ; common shrub in gardens, Macfadyen ; Wilson ! March ! — 

 East Indies, Malay Is., China, tropical Africa. 



Shrub, twigs pubescent. Leaves 5-7-nerved, roundish in outline but 

 broader than long, base rounded or truncate ; leaflets united more than 

 halfway, apex rounded, about 5*5 (2-7) cm. 1.; pubescent beneath. 

 Flmoers usually 2 together (1-3), axillary; bracteoles 2, linear, persistent, 

 5-7 mm. 1. Receptacle 3 mm. 1. Calyx 1-5-2 cm. 1., dentate. Petals 

 obovate. Stamens unequal, nearly free. Pod flat, linear, narrowed towards 

 the base, 1-1*5 dm. 1., about 1*5 cm. br. Seeds 6-10.] 



