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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Stigviaphyllon 



" St. Mary " ; " near Annotto Bay, St. George " ; McNab 1 — West Indies, 

 Panama and northern South America, 



Leaves 7-15 cm. 1., 3-5-10 cm. br., floral leaves on an axillary branch, 

 often lanceolate or bract-like, petioles silky with adpressed hairs 4-1 '5 

 cm. 1. Sepals ovate or somewhat obovate-oblong, exceeding the glands by 

 1-5-2 mm.; glands elliptical 1-1-5 mm. 1. Petals with fringed margin; 

 limb 5-8 mm. in diam. ; claw 2-3 mm. 1. Samar;v oblong to oblong- 

 lanceolate ; wing to 3-5 cm. 1., at the base to 1-5 cm. br. 



7. TRIOPTERIS L. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves without stipules. Racemes or 

 panicles axillary and terminal. Glands of the calyx 8. Petals 

 pink or purplish. Stamens all perfect. Ovary S-lobed^ lobes 

 3-crested, and with a small lobe below the median crest. 

 Samarje 3, crested on the back, 3-winged ; the lateral wings 

 erect, united with the third inferior into a deeply 3-lobed, 

 Y-shaped wing. Embryo folded on itself. 



Species 3 or 4, natives of the West Indies and the Bahamas. 



Leaves oblong-ovate or ovate, obtuse or acute. 



Inflorescence corymb-like 1. T. imniculata. 



Leaves broadly ovate, markedly acuminate. 



Inflorescence pyramidal 2. T. Brittonii. 



1. T. panieulata Small in N. Amer. Fl. xxv. 124 (1910) ; 

 leaves ovate, ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate, or I'arely elliptical, 

 apex obtuse or acute, base rounded or subcordate ; panicle some- 

 what corymb-like. — T. jamaicensis Sw. Ohs. Bot. 183 (1791); 

 Mac/. Jam. i. 150 (non L.); A. Juss. in Arch. Miis. Par. Hi. 516 

 under T. ovata Cav. ; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 120. Banisteria 

 seminibus trialatis &c. Broivne Hist. Jam. 231. Malpighia 

 panieulata Mill. Garcl Diet. ed. 8 (1768). (Fig. 80.) The type, 

 Miller's specimen, is in Herb. Mua. Brit. A specimen from 



Fig. SO.— Triopteris panieulata Small. 



a, Samara X 2. 

 6, Embryo enlarged (after A. de Jussieu). 



