Suriana 



SIMAEUBACEiE 



197 



239. S. foliis &c. Plum. Gen. 37, t. 40. S. maritima &c. Browne 

 Hist. Jam. 190. Thymelsese facie frutex &c. Shane Cat. 138 & 

 Hist. n. 29, t. 162,/. 4. (Fig. 62.) Specimen in Herb. Sloane in 

 Herb. Mus. Brit. There are two specimens in Herb. Linn., one 

 named by Linnaeus, the other from Browne named in Solander's 

 hand. 



House Key, near Port Royal ; St. Ann ; Sloane Herb. v. 105 1 St. James, 

 Browne I Shakspear ! Plantain Garden river, Macfadyen ; Mammee Bay, 

 St. Ann, McNab ! Prior ; March I Dover, Metcalfe I Port Henderson, 

 Campbell ! sea-shore, Healthshire Hills ; Pedro Blufi ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 

 6068, 9526, 9717. 



Shrub or small tree, 4-10(-20) ft. high. Leaves 1-3-5 cm. 1. Bracts 

 lanceolate, 3-4 mm. 1. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 8 (6-10) mm. 1. Petals 

 rectangular-elliptical, with erose apex, shortly clawed, shorter than the 

 calyx. Filaments villose at the base. Ovary villose. Ripe carpels 

 pubescent, 6 mm. 1. 



2. CASTELA Turpin. 



Shrubs ; branches often reduced to spines. Leaves alternate, 

 simple, entire, leathery. Flowers small, inconspicuous, clustered 

 or solitary in the axils, dioecious. Calyx small, 4-cleft. Petals 4, 

 imbricate. Disk fleshy, crenate. Male flowers : Stamens 8. 

 Ovary wanting. Female flowers : Staminodes 8. Ovary corn- 



Fig. 63.—Ca8tela macrophylla Urb. 



A, Portion of branch showing leaves and 



male flowers x § ; the leaves above 

 the lowest spring from reduced 

 axillary shoots. 



B, Male flower X 4. 



(C after Hooker.) 



C, Female flower X 4 of C. Nicholsoni 

 Hook. 



D, Drupes, one cut lengthwise, nat. size ; 

 c, cotyledon ; r, radicle. 



