254 FLORA OF JAMAICA Phyllanthus 



forte arbor racemosa &c. Sloane Cat. 135 & Hist. ii. 19, t. 158^ 

 /. 3. Specimen from Swartz in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Sloane Herb. v. 66, 67 ! Wright ! Dancer ! Swartz 1 Macfadyen ! above 

 Cave R., St. Ann, Purdie ! near Moneague, Priwl Wilson 1 March \ J.P. 

 1061, 1326, Morris ! Rock Fort, Campbell ! Cxolden Valley, St. Thomas, 

 1000 ft. ; near Hope, 700-800 ft. ; Great Goat Is. ; Potsdam, 2600 ft. ; Fish 

 River Sits. ; near Dolphin Head ; Croft's Mt., Clarendon, 2500 ft. ; Harris I 

 Fl. Jam. 5423, 0412, 6574, 6602, 8601, 8950, 9301, 9337, 9778, 10,260, 

 10,309, 11,212; Union Hill, near Moneague, Brilton d Hollick 2747!— 

 Cuba, Hispaniola. 



Petioles 1-3 mm. 1. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 1 • 5-3 mm. 1., deciduous. 

 Flmvers red, solitary or 2-5 in clusters, or racemose, or panicle-like on 

 slender branches from which the leaves have dropped ; pedicels 1-3 cm. 1. 

 Male flou'crs : Disk of 5-6 glands. Female flowers : i)is A; saucer-shaped, 

 crenate. Capsule globular, 9-10 mm. in diam., slightly fleshy on the 

 outside. Seeds 1-2 in each cell, pointed at apex, flattened at the other 

 end, 5-7 mm. 1. 



2. P. acuminatus Vnhl Symh. it. 95 (1791); shrub or much 

 branched tree, 8-25 ft. high ; twigs green, more or less 

 puberulous, angular; leaves 2-4-5 cm. 1., ovate, acuminate or 

 shortly acuminate, glabrous, but sometimes puberulous on nerves, 

 margin, and petiole ; sepals of male flower about 1 mm. 1., 

 3 outer deltoid, about 2 mm. br., 3 inner ovate, about '5 mm. 

 hr., of female flower about 1*5 mm. 1., 3 outer broadly ovate, 

 3 inner oblong-ovate ; fllaments united into a column ; anthers 3, 

 horizontal from apex of short column ; styles free, 2-branched, 

 reflexed. — Baill. Allans, i. 33 & ii. 15 ; Muell. Arg. in DC.Prodr. 

 .ir. pt. 2, 381. P. Conami Sic. Prodr. 28 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 

 1105. 



Wricjht ! Harticcg (fide Baillon) ; near Castleton, Harris I PI. Jam. 

 8409, 11,147.— Cuba, Martinique, St. Vincent, Trinidad, tropical conti- 

 nental America. 



Petiole 3-4 mm. 1. Stiimles linear-lanceolate, l'5-2 mm. 1. Floiuers 

 numerous, one female, the rest male, in axillary clusters. Male flowers ; 

 Pedicels about 3 mm. 1., several together. Disk of 3 glands. Female 

 flowers : Pedicels about 13 mm. 1., one in each cluster, thickened and 

 angled at apex. Disk of 3 large bigibbous glands united laterally to form 

 a cup. Capsule 3*5-4 mm. 1., surface net-veined. Seeds about 2*5 mm. 1., 

 reddish-brown, keeled on the back. 



3. P. portorieensis Urb. Symh. Ant. iv. 388 (1910) ; shrub 

 12 ft. high, glabrous ; leaves 3-6 cm. 1., obovate, base cuneate ; 

 flowers dioecious (?) ; sepals of female flower 5 or 6, obovate to 

 ovate, about 1 mm. 1. ; styles free, 2-5-lobed, spreading. — 

 Diasperus portorieensis Kuntze Bev. Gen. PI. ii. 602 (1891). A 

 specimen from Kuntze in Herb. Kew. 



Hope grounds, 700 ft. Harris \ Fl. Jam. 12,193, 12,344, 12,398.— 

 Porto Rico. 



Petiole 5-10 mm. 1. Male flowers not known. Female flowers greenish- 

 yellow, several together in axillary clusters; pedicels 2-4 mm. 1. Sepals: 



