154 FLORA OF JAMAICA Inga 



indication of the regular dehiscence of the pod, nor of the terminal leaflet 

 depicted by Sloane. 



Grisebach cites Bentham as the authority for the occurrence of 

 I. ingoides Willd. in Jamaica, but we find no confirmation of this, nor 

 have we seen specimens. It differs from I: vera Willd. in the flowers being 

 stalked, the spikes corymbose, calyx 6-7 mm. 1., corolla twice as long as 

 the calyx, and the pod longer and deeply furrowed. 



Family XL. GERANIACE^. 



Herbs or shrubs ; branches swollen at the nodes. Leaves 

 simple, stipulate. Sepals and petals 5, generally distinct and 

 imbricate. Stamens 10 or 15 (5), often united at the base. 

 Ovary 5-celled ; carpels united with the axis, produced above 

 into a beak with the styles more or less combined with it. Fruit 

 a capsule separating elastically into 5 one-seeded parts (cocci). 

 Endosperm thin or none. 



Species about 630, natives of temperate and subtropical 

 regions of the whole world, a few in the mountains of the tropics. 



GERANIUM L. 



Herbs. Leaves palmately lobed. Flowers regular, parts 

 in 5's. Glands 5, alternate with petals. Stamens twice as many 

 as petals. Ovary 5-celled ; stigmas 5 ; ovules 2 in each cell. 

 Ripe carpels separating from the central axis elastically usually 

 from base to apex, and recurved. Cotyledons induplicate-plicate 

 or convolute ; radicle incumbent. 



Species about 260, natives of the temperate regions of the 

 whole world, only found in the tropics in the mountains. 



G. eapolinianum L. Sp. PI. 682 (1753) ; Hanks & Small in 

 N. Amer. Fl. xxv. 9 ; Knuth in Engl. Pflanzenreich iv. 129, 54. 

 G. columbinum carolinum <fec. Dill. Elth. t. 135. G. lanuginosum 

 Jacq. Hort. Schoenhr. ii. 8, t. 140 (1797). G. pyrenaicum Qriseh. 

 Fl. Br. W. Ind. 132 (1859) (non Burm. /.) (see Urb. Symb. 

 Ant. vi. 96) ; Hanks d Small torn. cit. 10 (with reference to 

 Jamaica). (Fig. 48.) Type in Herb. Gronovius in Herb. Mas. 

 Brit, ; specimen named by Linnaeus in Herb. Linn. 



Near Coldspring, Swartz ! McNab ! Abbey Green, Priai- ; Cinchona, J.P. 

 947, 1398, Hart\ Blue Mt. Peak, Hitchcock; Clydesdale; Cinchona, 

 5000 ft. ; below Newcastle, 3800 ft. ; Green Valley, St, Andrew, 2000 ft, ; 

 Harrisl Fl. Jam. 8577, 11,939, 12,388.— Southern Canada, U, States, 

 northern Mexico, Bermuda. 



Annual or biennial, pubescent. Stem branching, erect or ascending, 

 to IJ ft. high. Leaves 3-6 cm. br., divided almost to the base into 5-7 

 segments ; segmeiits pinnately cleft into linear lobes ; petioles long. 

 Inflorescence with the peduncles and flowers somewhat crowded and 



