Peltostigma KUTACEiE 181 



deciduous, the inner petal-like, the 2 outer smaller, herbaceous. 

 Petals 4. Disk thick, fleshy. Stamens numerous, unequal, 

 inserted on the disk. Pistil consisting of 8 (6-10) one-celled 

 carpels, united at the sides and free at the axis ; stigma large, 

 8-lobed, subsessile. Ovules 2 in each cell, superposed or collateral. 

 Cocci 8 (6-10), each with 2 (1) seeds. 

 Species 1, a native of Jamaica only. 



P. pteleoides Walp. Bep. v. 387 (1845-46) ; Griseb. Fl. Br. 

 W. Ind. 136; Baill. Hist. iv. 393, /. 443, 444; Engl in Engl.- 

 Prantl Bfizfam. Hi. pt. 4, /. 69, n-r ; Urh. in Engl. Jalirh. xxi. 

 554 ; P. Wils. in N. Amer. Fl. xxv. 206. Pachystigma pteleoides 

 Hooh. Ic. PI. t. 698, 699 (1844) ; Bot. Mag. t. 4436. (Fig. 57.) 



Candle Wood. 



St. Cruz Mts., Purdiel Potsdam woodland, St. Cruz Mts., 2600 ft., 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9800 ; also Britton, 1272 I cult, in Hope Gardens, Harris ! 



Tree to 25 ft. high, with a balsamic odour. Leaflets 3 (sometimes 5), 

 elliptical to lanceolate or oblanceolato, entire or obsoletely serrate above, 

 apex acute or shortly acuminate, tapering to base and decurrent into the 

 petiolule, with very numerous pellucid dots, the terminal leaflet larger, 

 4-12 cm. 1. Pedicels 1-2 cm. 1., bracteolate at base; bracts and bracteoles 

 deciduous, foliaceous, bracts about 1*5 cm. 1., bracteoles about half as 

 long. Floivers cream-coloured, frstgrant. Sepals deciduous, 6-10 mm. 1. 

 Petals roundish-elliptical, concave, about 1*5 cm. 1. Siainens 5-8 mm. 1. 

 Pistil 5-6 mm. 1. Cocci about 2 cm. 1., about 1 cm. br. 



4. ESENBECKIA H. B. & K. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, digitate, 5(-3)-foliolate 

 in El pentaphylla ; leaflets entire, with numerous pellucid dots. 

 Panicles axillary and terminal. Calyx 4-5-lobed, or 4 or 5 sepals, 

 imbricate. Petals 4-5, imbricate or valvate. Stamens 4-5, 

 inserted at the base of the disk between the lobes. Ovary deeply 

 4-5-lobed, 4-5-celled ; style basal ; ovules 2 in each cell, collateral, 

 aflSxed near the base of the interior angle. Capsule subglobose, 

 muricate, echinate, or coarsely wrinkled, septicidally 5-carpellate ; 

 cocci loculicidally 2-valved, 1 -seeded. Seeds without endosperm ; 

 cotyledons unequal, sometimes in a whorl of 3. 



Species about 20, natives of tropical America (incl. the West 

 Indies). 



E. pentaphylla Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 135 (1859); Urh. in 

 Engl. Jalirh. xxi. 553 ; P. Wils. in N. Amer. Fl. xxv. 201. Galipea 

 pentaphylla Macf. Jam. i. 196 (1837). (Fig. 58.) 



Wild Orange. 



Near Green Valley works and below Mocha works, Blue Mts., Macfadyeyi 1 

 St. Ann, Purdie\ Moneague, Prior \ March; Mount Lebanon, 2500 ft.; 

 Tweedside road, St. Andrew, 2000 ft. ; Grandvale, Westmoreland, 500- 

 2000 ft. ; near Troy, 1800 ft. ; slopes of Dolphin Head ; Peckham, Upper 



