228 FLORA OF JAMAICA Malpighia 



crests equal in length, lateral broader, middle crest thick, the 

 spaces between with more or less prominent irregular transverse 

 ridges ; commissural ridge shorter than the crests at the base, 

 sharp-pointed at the apex. — Niedenzu torn. cit. 1 2 ; Small torn. 

 cit. 157. Miller's specimen, the type, is in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Sloane Herb. vii. opp. 32 ! Browne I Wright 1 Halfway Tree to Spanish 

 Town, 200 ft., Harris I Fl. Jam. 10,048.— Cuba, Mexico. 



The specimen from Browne in the Linnean Herbarium is named 

 M. angustifolia by Linnaeus. But M. atigustifolia L. is M^ linearis Jacq., 

 a species with much narrower leaves, which is found only in the Lesser 

 Antilles. 



Sepals ovate or- ovate-lanceolate, 2 '5-3 mm. 1. ; glands 6, about 2 mm. I. 

 Petals purple. 



6. M. biflora Poir. in Lam. Encyc. iv. 326 (1797) ; leaves 

 with stinging hairs (2-6 mm. 1.) beneath, parallel with midi'ib,. 

 otherwise glabrous, elliptical or elliptical-oblong to lanceolate, 

 apex acute to acuminate, base obtuse, membranous or papery, 

 subsessile, 2-1 2 cm. 1. ; flowers 2-5, in stalked corymbs 

 (or umbels) ; peduncle 15-4 mm. 1. ; pedicels 6-20 mm. 1. ; blade 

 of one petal roundish, 6-7 mm. 1., claw 3-5 mm. 1., limb of the 

 rest subhastate-ovate, 3-5 mm. 1., claw 2-3 mm. 1. ; drupe about 

 8 mm. 1. and in diam. at base, when dry triangular-pyramidal 

 with 9 prominent crests ; pyrenes 3-winged, the median wing 

 longer and usually much broader than the lateral wings, in the 

 spaces between transverse raised lines, parts of which sometimes 

 become warty ; commissural ridge subequal or somewhat shorter 

 than the wings at the base. — Small torn. cit. 158. M. punicifolia 

 Gav. Diss. 406, t. 134,/. 2 (1789) (non L.). M. urens 3Iacf. 

 Jam. i. 146 (1837) (non L.). M. oxycocca Griseh. op. cit. 117 

 (1859); Niedenzu torn. cit. 13. Type of M. oxycocca Griseb. in 

 Herb. Kew. 



Cowhage or Cowitch Cherry, 



Wright 1 woods near Bath, Purdie 1 Wilson ; Prior ; above Gordon 

 Town ; Windward Road ; Cinchona ; Fawcett 1 road to Troy, 1400 ft. ; Cave 

 river valley, 400 ft. ; Mulgrave, 1200 ft. ; Harris I Fl. Jam. 9409, 9625, 

 12,372.— Cuba. 



Shrub 3-8 ft. high ; youngest twigs villose with adpressed white hairs, 

 older glabrescent, at length glabrate. Sepals ovate, obtuse, puberulous or 

 glabrate, villose at base or just below glands, 2-5 mm. 1. ; glands 6, 2 mm. 1. 

 Petals purplish. 



7. M. Harpisii Small in Torreya xiii. 77 (1913); leaves 

 glabrous, elliptical to broadly elliptical, apex obtuse, sometimes 

 rounded or acute, base rounded, somewhat leathery, 7-12 cm. 1., 

 4-6-5 cm. br. ; petiole 4-7 mm. 1.; racemes clustered, sub- 

 corymbose, many-flowered, pedunculate ; pedicels jointed, lower 

 joint 5-6 mm. 1., upper 2 -5-1 -5 cm. 1. ; petals to 12 or 13 mm. 1. ;. 

 apex of styles hammer-shaped. 



