226 • FLORA OF JAMAICA Malpighia 



Cherry. 



Sloane Herb. vii. 32 1 Wright 1 Broughton ! Shakspear I Macfadyen 1 

 St. Mary, McNab ! Port Royal Mts., Purdie ! March ! Port Morant, Lucea, 

 Hitchcock ; St. Andrew, Campbell ! Cane River valley, above Falls, 

 Faivcettl Bridge Hill, Fawcett\ Westphalia; Berwick Hill; Sheldon 

 Road, 2500 ft. ; Grove, 800 ft. ; Tweedside, south St. Andrew, 2500 ft. ; 

 near Alligator Pond, 300 ft. ; Watson's Hill, 2200 ft. ; Long Mountain, 

 900 ft. ; coast between Montego Bay and Lucea ; Malvern, 2200 ft. ; 

 Hanisl Fl. Jam. 5378, 5400, 5459, 6087, 6094, 6621, 6922, 7265, 8202, 

 8620, 8848, 8913, 9235, 9646; Lime Hall, Ormsby I near Montego Bay, 

 Mrs. E. G. Britton, 2919 ! Spur Trefe Hill, Britton, 1057 !— West Indies 

 and tropical continental America. 



Shrub 4-10 ft. high, or (in cultivated ground) tree to 20 ft. high ; 

 young parts more or less covered with silky hairs. Sepals oblong to ovate- 

 oblong, glabrous, 2*5 mm. L, glands about half as long. Petals rosy-pink, 

 denticulate, to 8 mm. 1. ; limb roundish or elliptical, longer than the claw. 

 Styles subec[ual, straightish, thickened at apex. Driqye scarlet, globular- 

 3-angled, juicy of a sweet but insipid taste. 



2. M. punieifolla L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 609 (1762) ; leaves glabrous, 

 elliptical, or somewhat obovate-elliptical, or sometimes ovate- 

 lanceolate, apex generally obtuse or rounded or emarginate, sub- 

 Bessile, 2-8 cm. 1. ; flowers 2-1 (-4) in sessile or subsessile corymbs 

 or umbels; styles thicker at apex; drupe 1-1 "5 cm. in diam., 

 ovoid ; pyrenes, outline roundish, 3-crested ; crests thin, equal in 

 length, the spaces between with transverse ridges with muricate 

 edges ; commissural ridge broad with sharp edges, much shorter 

 than the crests at the base. — Descourt. Fl. Ant. i. 145, t. 30 ; 

 Wright Mem. 271 ; Macf. Jam. i. 147 ; A. Juss. tom. cit. 261, t. 4 ; 

 Griseh. loc. cit. ; Niedenzu tom. cit. 7 ; Small tom. cit. 156. M. foliis 

 ovatis &c. Plum. PI. Amer. (Burm.) t. 166, /. 2. M, fruticosa 

 erecta ramulis kc. Browne Hist. Jam. 230. M. uniflora Tuss. Fl. 

 Ant. Hi. t. 27 (1824). 



Cherry. 



Macfadyen \ St. Andrew; St. Ann; McNab \ J.P. 621, Morris \ Red 

 Hills, Grabham 1 Long Mountain, 50 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9573.— West 

 Indies (but not reported from Cuba and Hispaniola), northern S. America. 



Shrub or tree, 7-16 ft. high, much like the preceding species. Petals 

 slightly keeled, roundish, somewhat broader than long. Stamens : two 

 thicker and larger than the rest. 



3. M. fueata Ker in Bot. Beg. t. 189 (1817); leaves large, 

 with stinging hairs (3-7 mm. 1.) beneath, elliptical or oblong 

 (some also ovate or obovate or lanceolate), obtuse or acute at 

 both ends, to 20 cm. 1., to 11 cm. br. ; petiole 5-10 mm. 1.; 

 flowers 9-20 in sessile or subsessile corymbs ; pedicels 1-2 • 5 cm. 1. ; 

 drupe to 1 "5 cm. in diam. ; pyrenes, outline roundish, 3-crested ; 

 crests thin, the middle of the spaces between the wings with 

 short transverse ridges, which in the dry fi'uit form, as it were, 

 intermediate crests parallel to the crests ; commissural ridge 

 thick and broad, equalling the crests at the base. — A. Juss. tom. 



