264 FLORA OF JAMAICA Pliyllanthiis 



18. P. speeiosus Jacq. Collect, ii. 360 (1788) & le. PL Bar. 

 t. 616 J pedicels about 6 mm. 1., in fruit to 1 cm. 1. ; sepals 1*5- 

 1 • 7 mm. 1. (in the female flower increasing in the fruit) ; fila- 

 ments 3, united halfway from the base, free above, diverging ; 

 connective of anthers diverging, cells separate, opening hori- 

 zontally ; styles short, spreading, 2-3-divided, branches recurved. 

 ^Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1107 (1800); Griseh. loc. cit. ; Muell. Arg. 

 torn. cit. 431. P. arbuscula Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2 (1841). Xylo- 

 phylla arbuscula Siv. Prodr. 28 (1788) & Ic. Ined. t. 34. X. lati- 

 folia Bot. Mag. t. 1021 (1807) (non L.). Specimens from Swartz 

 in Herb. Mus. Brit, and in Herb. Stockholm. 



Broughton ! " Catherine Hill," Sicartz 1 Bancroft ! March ! John Crow 

 Mt., 4000 ft., J.P, 1263, HaH! Silver Hill, Bot. Dept.\ near Troy, 2000- 

 2500 ft. ; Harris I Fl. Jam. 8565, 8714, 8771, 9368. 



Shrub or small tree, 6-20 ft. high. Scaly cone at apex of branch large, 

 much broader than branch ; scale-leaves and stipules lanceolate to linear, 

 acuminate, 4-8 mm. 1. Penultimate brafichcs 1-3 dm. 1., 1-5-2 mm.br. 

 Flowering branches in two vertical rows, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, 

 slightly curved or straight, 4-7 cm. 1., usually 1-2 cm. br. ; notches 10-14 

 on each side, indistinct, with cushions small, at length more developed, 

 with larger cushions, striated only by the principal, somewhat distant 

 veins. Pedicels 3-6 from each cushion. Male floicers pale red or white. 

 Sepals 5 or 6, elliptical-ovate or oblong, outer with brownish apex. Disk 

 glands 5 or 6, somewhat concave, very shortly stalked. Female flowers 

 blood-red. Sepals 5 or 6, rouiidish-elliptical or rhomboid-elliptical, outer 

 with brownish apex, green (Swartz). Disk saucer-shaped, margin wavy or 

 6-lobed, "3 mm. 1., about one-fourth to one-third the length of the ovary. 

 Capsule depressed-globular, 3-furrowed, about 5 mm. 1. Seeds ovoid, 

 brownish, about 3-5 mm. 1. 



The specimens from Troy have shorter ovate blunt scales, about 

 3 mm. 1., and distinct notches. 



19. p. insequaliflorus Fatoc. d- Bendle in Journ. Bot. Ivii. 66 

 (1919); pedicels 3-5 mm. 1. ; sepals of male flower 2 mm. 1., of 

 female nearly 3 mm. 1. ; stamens less than half as long as sepals ; 

 filaments united nearly to apex, column about • 5 mm. 1. ; anther- 

 cells separate ; ovary one-third the length of sepals ; styles united, 

 •5 mm. 1., column erect, one- half as long as the ovary, branches 3, 

 short, broad, spreading, divided below the middle into two or 

 three linear segments, recurved ; disk of male flowers of stalked 

 large flat roundish peltate glands, as long as the staminal column, 

 of female flower saucer-shaped with lobed margin, • 3 mm. L, one- 

 third as long as ovary. Types in Herb. Mus. Brit, and Herb. Jam. 



Holly Mount, Mt. Diablo, Harris I Fl. Jam. 8988. 



Shrub or tree to 20 ft. high. Scaly cone (young) at apex of branches, 

 scales triangular, acute or acuminate, about 3 mm. 1. Penultimate branches 

 6-12 cm. 1., 1-1 '5 mm. br. Flotvering branches in two vertical rows, 

 lanceolate to narrowly oblong, apex obtuse, 4-5 cm. 1. ; notches few, 5-8 on 

 each side, above the middle, small or indistinct ; striated only by the 

 principal somewhat distant veins. Pedicels 1-4 at each notch. Sepals of 

 male flower 6, ovate-elliptical, of female flower obovate-oblong or elliptical 

 to roundish. 



