260 FLORA OF JAMAICA Phyllanthns 



dioecious, male clustered, female solitary in the axils of leaves ; 

 sepals 4 in 2 series, elliptical or roundish, of male 1 • 5 mm. 1., of 

 female 2 mm. 1. ; filaments 4, free ; anthers opening longitu- 

 dinally ; ovary 5-4-cclled (rarely 3-celled) ; styles united below, 

 T)— 3, 2-lobed or 2-cleft or variously divided ; fruit barely 

 1 cm. in diam. — Muell. Arg. in Fl. Bras. xi. pt. 2, 69 ; Urh. 

 Symh. Ant. iv. 339. Euonymus margaritifera &c. Pluk. Phyt. 

 t. 176,/. 4. Margaritaria nobilis L. f. Suppl. 428 (1781) (excl. 

 male plant). Cicca antillana A. Juss. Euphorh. Tent. t. 4,/. 13 b 

 (1824) ; Griseh. op. cit. 



Bastard II ogBerry. 



Troy 1600-2200 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam, 8G98, 9450, 9490.— West Indies, 

 tropical S. America, Panama. 



Stipules triangular, acuminate, 3-4 mm. 1., entire. Disk of both sexes 

 entire, of the male adhering to the sepals below, of female narrow, ring- 

 like. Fruit : Pericarp at first fleshy, at length drying up and dividing 

 into 5-3 cocci, depressed-globular. Seeds somewhat plano-convex to 

 3-sided, smooth, greenish-brown, 3 nim. in diam. 



13. P. glabellus Faioc. d Bendle in Journ. Bot. hii. 68 

 (1919) ; petiole long, i-J the length of the blade. P. tremulus 

 Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 34 (1859) : Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 

 pt. 2, 330. Croton glabellum L. Ama;n. v. 383, 409, & Sp. PI. 

 ed. 2, 1425 (excl. syn. Sloanc & Browne). 



Broivne ! Wright 1 Purdie ! Wullschlacgel ; Round Hill, Santa Cruz 

 Mts., IfcOO ft. ; Malvern to Mountainside, 400 ft. ; Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 9707, 

 9903. — Type from Browne in Herb. Linn. 



Shrub OT smsW tree ij~15 it. high. Leaves 3-9" 5 cm. 1., broadly ellip- 

 tical, conspicuously lighter-coloured beneath, glabrous ; stipules lanceolate- 

 linear, '5 cm. 1., deciduous. Male flowers minute, clustered, lateral; 

 pedicels slender, 9-11 mm. 1. Sepals 10, in two series, the outer elliptical- 

 oblong, 1-5 mm. 1., the inner oblong-lanceolate, larger, to 2"5 mm. 1. 

 Disk saucer-shaped, crenate, "6 mm. 1. Filaments united into a short 

 column, about "5 mm. 1. Anthers 4, close together, attached round the 

 margin of the peltate connective, opening transversely. Female flowers : 

 Pedicels solitary or a few together, about as long as those of the male, 

 increasing in fruit to 3 "5-4 "5 cm. 1. Sepals 10, the two series very 

 unequal ; outer series broadly oblong, ultimately 2 mm. 1., inner series 

 thin, linear-oblong, ultimately 3"5 mm. 1. Disk cup-like, margin wavy 

 or lobed, "5 mna. 1. Style-hr&nchesi sessile on apex, 2-lobed, fleshy. 

 Capsules at first somewhat fleshy, depressed-globular, 8-10 mm. in diam. 

 Seeds 6-3^ often all abortive, flattish ellipsoidal, buff-coloured, smooth, 

 4" 5 cm. 1. 



"B. Flowering branches flattened, generally leaf-like, of firm 

 leathery texture, notched, with the floAvers clustered in 

 the notches. Branches (" penultimate branches ") that 

 bear the flowering branches, in P. epiphyllanthus normal, 

 woody and rounded ; in P. montanus slightly modified ; in 

 the rest similar in substance to the flowering branches, 

 and more or less flattened and linear. The penultimate 



