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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Qxali» 



petiole. Scapes longer than the leaves, many-flowered. Pedicels "5-2 

 cm. 1. Bracteoles at base of pedicels. Sepals with 2 elongated glands at 

 the apex, 4-5 mm. 1. Cwolla pink, turning violet in decay and in drying, 

 1-1 '6 cm. 1. Stamens: the longer pubescent. Styles densely hairy. 

 CapsztZc (not seen) " oblong, many-seeded, downy " (Baker). " ' 



Avepphoa Capambola L. & A. bllimbi L., natives of ttopical Asia,, are 

 sometimes cultivated. : ' . 



Family XLII. LINAGES. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, usually entire. 

 Flowers perfect, regular, in racemes or in panicled or corymbose 

 cymes. Parts of the flower in 5's. Sepals imbricate.- Petals 

 imbricate, generally twisted in bud, fugacious. Stamens 

 generally 5, united below, hypogynous. Staminodal glands- '5, 

 on the staminal <;olumn. Ovary free, entire, 3-5-celled. Ovules 

 1 or 2 in the angle of each cell. Styles 3-5. Fruit capsular. 

 Embryo generally straight and as long as the endosperm. 



Species about 150; the herbaceous species natives chiefly of 

 the temperate regions ; the shrubby species principally in the 

 tropics ; very few in Australia. 



Fig. 50. — Linum jamxtioense Tawc. & Keudle. 



A, Upper portion of stem X §. E, Capsule enlarged. 



B, Diagram of flower. F, Ditto cut across. 



C, Bud X 7. G, Seed of L. usitatissimum 1. 



D, Bud opened, with part of calyx and 



corolla removed, x 5. (G, after Baillon.) 



