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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Suriana 



1. SURIANA L. 



Sea-shore shrub, covered with capitellate mixed with simple 

 hairs. Leaves alternate, clustered together, simple, linear- 

 spathulate, thick, without stipules. Flowers subterminal, hidden 

 by the leaves, solitary or few in a raceme, yellow, hermaphrodite. 

 Calyx 5-cleft, imbricate, persistent. Petals 5, as long as the 

 calyx, imbricate. Stamens 10, hypogynous, the 5 opposite the 

 petals shorter and sometimes without anthers. Ovary of 5 

 distinct carpels, the styles springing from near the base, free. 

 Ovules 2 in each cell, ascending from the base. Ripe carpels 

 3-5, surrounded by the calyx, 1 -seeded ; endocarp hard and 

 brittle. Seeds ascending. Embryo horseshoe-shaped ; cotyledons 

 flattish ; radicle long, superior, descending to the hilum. 



Species 1, found on all tropical sea-shores, 



S. mapitima L. Sp. PL 284 (1753); Jacq. Sel Stirp. Amer. 

 140; Sw. Oba. Bot. 185; Macf. Jam. L 235; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. 

 Ind. 58 ; Engl, in Fl. Bras. xii. pt. 2, 202 ; Urh. Symb. Ant. iv. 

 321; Engl, in Engl.-Prantl Pflzfam. Hi. pt. 4, 208,/. 119; 

 P. Wih. in N. Amer. Fl. xxv. 225 ; Ouppy Plants Ac. W. Indies, 



Fig. 62. — Suriana maritima L. 



A, Portion of branch with inflorescence C, Pistil cut lengthwise X 6. 



and leaves X |. D, One of the carpels cut across X ( 



B, Flower with part of the calyx and B, Ripe nutlet cut lengthwise X 2. 



corolla and one stamen removed x 4. F, Hair from calyx enlarged. 

 (A, C. D, E after Engler.) 



