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FLORA. OF JAMAICA 



Stigmajjihyllon 



Leaves apiculate, apex emarginate, or rounded. Apex 



of styles truncate or foot-like; anterior style 



shorter than the posterior 1. S.emarginatum. 



Leaves acuminate. Apex of styles with a horizontal 



expansion; anterior style longer than the posterior 2. S. Jitihenim. 



1. S. emarginatum A. Juss. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xiii. 290 

 (1840) & Arch. Mus. Par. Hi. 382 ; leaves of various forms and 

 sizes, but, in Jamaican, species, usually broadly elliptical, ovate, 

 or roundish, sometimes lanceolate, apex generally emarginate and 

 apiculate, base cordate to emarginate, or rounded, or truncate, 

 silky especially beneath, becoming more or less glabrate, usually 



Fig. 19.—Stigmaphyllon emarginatum A. Juss. 



A, Leaf, nat. size. B, Stamens and pistil X 4. 



C, Fruit, nat. size. 



membranous or papery in younger branches, often subleathery in 

 older branches ; anterior style (the one opposite the glandless 

 sepal) curved, shorter and slenderer than the tvi^o posterior, its 

 apex usually growing into an appendage above the stigma 

 continuous with the style ; apex of the posterior styles truncate 

 and more or less angled or foot-like ; Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 118 ; 

 Niedenzu in Ind. Led. Lye. Brunsh., Stigmaphyllon, pt. 1, 5 ; 

 Small in Ft. N. Amer. xxv. 140. S. periplocsefolium A. Juss. in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xiii. 290 (1840) & Arch. Mus. Par. Hi. 380; 

 Griseh. op. cit. 119; Niedenzu torn. cit. 7. S. diversifolium 

 A. Juss. (in part) in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xiii. 290 (1840) & Arch. 



