244 FLOl.'A OF ,IA:sIAICA Poll/gala 



Little Hope pastures, St. Andrew, Macfadyen ! St. Andrew, McNab ! 

 King's House grounds ; Hope grounds ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6904, 8153.— 

 Cuba, St. Thomas, Grenada, Tobago, Trinidad, IMcxico, Guatemala, Guiana, 

 Brazil, Paraguay. 



Leaves lanceolate to linear, 2-5 cm. 1. Eacctnes 2-10 cm. 1., with 

 10-30 flowers. Flowers pale yellow with a tinge of purple, about 4 mm. 1. 

 Sepals persistent, the two lower united nearly to apex, oblong or oblong- 

 elliptical, with a few stalked glands near the apex, 1-3-2 mm. 1. Wings 

 petaloid, persistent, obovate-elliptical, somewhat unequal-sided, wedge- 

 shaped at base, with a white spot near the apex, 3-4 mm. 1., pinkish- 

 purple. Petals mauve-purplish, about 3-8 mm. 1., wedge-shaped at base, 

 middle part contracted; upper part (1 mm. 1.) roundish. Keel obtuse, 

 about 4 mm. 1., attached to the staminal tube at the base. Stamens about 

 4 mm. 1. ; filaments united for more than half their length. Style about 

 3-5 mm. 1., bent at right angles just above the middle, puberulous just 

 below the shortly 2-lobed stigma. Capsule oblong-elliptical, emarginate, 

 slightly swollen, 3-3-5 mm. 1.. cells equal. Seed about 2-5 mm. 1., white, 

 cylindrical, minutely silky-puberulous. Aril helmet-like at apex of seed, 

 minutely 3-lobed at the base, about -7 mm. 1. 



3. P. Jamaicensis Chod. in Mem. Soc. Phys. Geneve xx:d. n. 2, 

 11, t. 13, /. U (1893): shrub or tree, 8-18 ft. high; racemes 

 very short, dense, corynibose-umbelliforni ; keel without crest.- — 

 Blal-e torn. at. 14, /. 1, /. 3. P. fruticosa .... floribus con- 

 ferti.s ike. Browne Hist. Jam. 287. P. fruticosa .... capsulis 

 subrotundis itc. Broione ioc. cit. t. 5, /. 3. P. arborea itc. Browne 

 lac. cit. P. diversifolia L. Amoen. v. 381 & Sp. PL cd. 2, 989 

 (in part) ; Sw. Obs. Boi. 273. P. chinensis L. Ioc. cit. (in part). 

 Genistas affinis Anonyma <kc. Sloane Cat. 141 & Hist. ii. 32, 

 /. 170, /. 2. Badiera diversifolia DC. Prcdr. i. 334 (1824); 

 Britton in Bull. Torr. Bof. CI. xxxvii. 362. 



White Lignum Vitae. 



Sloane Hb. v. 100! Broivne\ Wright\ Sicartz\ Macfadyen\ rocks, sea- 

 coast, Manchester, Purdie ! White river, Prior ! March ! Wilson ! Eock 

 Fort, near Kingston ; Bath ; J.P. 641, Hart ! near Old England, Blue 

 Mts., 3000-3500 ft.; near Ewarton, 950 It.; Bridge Hill, 1500 ft. ; Malvern, 

 2200 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5838, 6597, 6671, 7092, 9651. 



Leaves ovate to lanceolate, 3-5-8 cm. 1. Bacemes axillary; peduncle 

 1-1-5 mm. 1.; pedicels 2-4 mm. 1. Sepals elliptical or roundish, 1-13 

 mm. 1., free, deciduous or more or less persistent. Wings obliquely ovate, 

 1-5-2 mm. 1. Petals 3-8-4*3 mm. 1., lower half ovate-oblong, next quarter 

 inflexed-contracted, uppermost quarter somewhat deltoid. Keel 3 -9-4 5 

 mm. 1., blunt, contracted obliquely at the base into a claw; claw attached 

 to the staminal tube. Stamens about 3-5 mm. 1.; filaments glabrous, 

 united nearly to apex. Ovary puberulous; style about 2-5 mm. 1., 

 stigmatic lobes cIofc together, not tufted. Ca^st^/c leathery-fleshy, some- 

 what roundish, cells equal, at length opening (one cell sometimes not 

 •developed), keeled above, not winged, shortly stalked, 6-5-10 mm. 1., 

 7-11 mm. br. 



P. diversifolia L. Sp. PI. 703, from description in Hort. Cliff, (p. 353) 

 and specimen (from Hort. Cliff.) in Herb. Mus. Brit, is Securidaca 

 j-candens Jacq. In Amcen. v. 381, Linnseus identified Browne's no. 2 

 ;as P. diversifolia, and a specimen from Browne is so named in Herb. . 

 Linn. ; Browne's no. 4 Linnaeus named P. chinensis, and a specimen from 

 Browne is pinned to the type of P. chinensis. Both Browne's specimens 



