24G FLOh'A OF JAMAICA Sccurldaca 



sub-2-lobed at the stigmatic apex. Fruit with a long terminal 

 wing, not opening. Seed with a short cap-like adpressed aril : 

 endosperm wanting ; embryo undivided. 



Species about 30, mostly natives of tropical and sub-tropical 

 America, including AVest Indies, a few in Africa and Asia. 



Racemes forming a corymbose leafy panicle. Anterior . 



margin of seed-case wider above, rounded or horn-like 1. S. Broioiei. 

 llacemes lax. Anterior margin of seed-case narrow, of 



same breadth throughout. . 2. S. crecta. 



Panicles long; branches distant. Anterior margin of 



seed-case narrow below, broad above ; apex 2-toothed 3. S. Lamarckii. 



1. S. Bpownei Grisch. Fl. Br. W. lad. 30 (1859); racemes 

 dense, with numerous flowers, forming a somewhat corymbose 

 leafy panicle ; anterior margin of seed-case wider above, rounded 

 or produced into an obtuse horn-like projection. — S. virgala 

 Mac/. Jam. i. 49 (1837) (non Sw.). S. scandens foliis oblongis tfcc. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 288. Ehret's Original Sketches of Broicne's 

 Jamaican Plants, 61, 62. (Fig. 84, A, H-J.) 



Red Hills, Browne ; Wright ! Broughton 1 Shakspear 1 common on 

 limestone, Macfadijcn ! between Claremont and Bellfield, St. Mary, McNab ! 

 Browns Town; near Penn Hill; Furdlel Wilsonl Priori March I below 

 Vinegar Hill; Hall's Delight; St. George, 2000 ft.; Olive R., near 

 Christiana, 3000 ft.; Holly Mount, Mt. Diablo, 2500-3000 ft; Mount 

 Pleasant, Stonv Hill, llOU ft.; Kempshot, 1100-1600 ft.; Red Hills, 

 St. Andrew, 1000 ft. ; Harris ! Brandon Hill, 1000 ft., Thompson ! Plowden 

 Hill, Fawcettl Bower's Wood road, Britton, 2615! Fl. Jam. 5545, 7674, 

 8039, 8240, 8992, 8999, 10,326, 11,140, 11,838. 



Shrub with numerous branches trailing over neighbouring shrubs and 

 low trees to a height of 25-40 ft. Leaves elliptical, rounded at apex, 

 obtuse or wedge-shaped at base, minutely puberulous or glabrous, 5-4 cm. I., 

 becoming gradually smaller (to 1 cm. 1.) near the flowers. Racemes 

 4-8 cm. 1. Scpalx 4-3 mm. 1 , elliptical to roundish, coloured, densely 

 puberulous on the outside, minutely ciliate, with parallel dark veins. 

 Win/js large, semicircular or rounded, unequal-sided, minutely ciliate, 

 •7-1 cm. br. and nearly as long, with a very short claw. Petals oblong, 

 contracted in the middle, oblique and rounded above, gibbous at base, 

 about 6 mm. 1. ; lateral scale-like, oblong, about 1 mm. 1. Keel : blade 

 about 8 mm. 1., as folded together 3 mm. br., narrowly elliptical along the 

 edge of the fold, somewhat straight along the free margin, truncate at 

 base; central portion of apex folded together with an irregular margin. 

 Staniinal sheath villous along the margin, about as long as the petals ; 

 free filaments about 2 mm. 1. Ovary compressed-ellipsoidal, margined on 

 both sides, margin on one side passing into the style just below the apex, 

 on the other slightly onlai-ged and forming a very short appendage above 

 the ovary ; style excentric, bent like a hook ; stigma with 2 capitate lobes. 

 Fruit : seed-case about 1 cm. 1., and as broad or nearly so, marked with a 

 few branching lines, sometimes not prominent ; wing somewhat oblong, 

 3-4 cm. 1., 2-1-5 cm. br. near apex, 9-10 mm. br. at base. 



2. S. ereeta Jaeq. Enum. PL Carib. 27 (1760); racemes lax, 

 anterior margin of seed-case very narrow, of the same breadth 



