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Hill, 2000 ft.; Black River to New Market, 150 ft.; near lighthouse, 

 Negril, 300 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 7102, 9167, 9859, 9880, 10,240 ; Negril, 

 Britton & Hollick, 2083 !— Type in Herb. Kew. 



Shruh 3-9 ft. high ; some of the nodes suppressed where the branches 

 or inflorescence spring, so that three to five leaves come close together, as 

 if whorled ; young tioigs rough with scattered flat-stellate hairs, at length 

 glabrato. Leaves ; nerves 3 at base, pinnate above ; petiole 3-20 mm. 1. 

 Racemes terminal or axillary, 3-9 cm. 1., glabrous. Bracts lanceolate, 

 about 1 mm. 1. -Pedicels : male to 6 mm. 1., in clusters of five or six, one 

 flower opening at a time. Male flowers : Calyx about 2 mm. 1., segments 

 ovate-elliptical, glabrous, with a minute tuft of hairs at apex. Petals 

 narrowly ovate-elliptical or obovate, 2-5 mm. 1., pubescent on the lower 

 half inside. Stamens about 24(-35 fide Muell.) ; filaments glabrous. 

 Female floivers sessile, somewhat numerous. Calyx: segments 2 "5-3 

 mm. 1. ; linear-lanceolate, without glands. Petals rudimentary. Ovary 

 very hispid. Styles once 2-parted or 2-cleft, slender, longer than the 

 ovary, coiled inwards at the apex. Capsule globular, about 5 mm. 1. 

 Seeds about 4 mm. 1. 



14. C. glandulosus L. Syst. ed. 10, 1275 (1759) & Amoen. v. 

 383, 409 ; leaves 2-3 "5 cm. 1., oblong-ovate, ovate, or elliptical, 

 base obtuse, coarsely serrate, both sides sparsely covered with 

 flat stellate hairs, or glabrescent, with two shortly stalked 

 saucer-shaped glands at base of limb beneath (less than 1 mm. 1.) ; 

 stipules linear, not glandular, about 2 mm. 1., soon falling. — 

 Geisel. op. cit. 64 ; Griseb. op. cit. 41 ; Muell. Arg. torn. cit. 683 : 

 Urh. St/mh, Ant. iv. 343. C. divaricatus Sw. Prodr. 100 (1788) 

 it Fl. Ind. Occ. 1187; Geisel. op. cit. 32. C. corchorifolius 

 Geisel. op. cit. 25 (1807). Type in Plerb. Linn, from Browne. 



Broicnc 1 Broughton 1 Masson ! St. Andrew, McNab ! Macfadycn, 

 Kingston, Prior !. — Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Cruz, Antigua, 

 Guadeloupe, Martinique, Trinidad, Curai^ao, continental America. 



Herb J to 2 ft. high ; stems usually herbaceous, sometimes woody, 

 above with flat stellate hairs on branches, leaves, inflorescence, calyx, or 

 glabrate. Leaves oblong-ovate, ovate, or elliptical base obtuse, coarsely 

 serrate, with two shortly stalked saucer-shaped glands at base of limb 

 beneath (less than 1 mm. 1.), nerves pinnate and two at each side of the base, 

 2-3 "5 cm. 1.; petiole ^-^^ as long as the blade; stipules linear. Racemes 

 with subsessile flowers, 1-5-2 cm. l.,or shorter. Bracts linear, with a small 

 stalked globular mucronate gland on each side at the base. Male floivers : 

 Calyx about 2 mm. 1., segments oblong-elliptical, acute. Petals slightly 

 longer than the calyx. Stamens 10, filaments glabrous. Female flowers : 

 Calyx: segments unequal, spathulate with acute apex, to 3 mm. 1., 

 increasing in fruit to be nearly or quite as long as capsule. Petals minute, 

 linear-lanceolate, gland-tipped. Ovary hirsute. Styles 2-parted almost 

 to the base. Capsule 5-G mm. 1., globular-ellipsoidal, glabrate or with a 

 few small stellate hairs. Seeds 4 mm. 1., lined on the back with rows of 

 minute pits. 



15. C. hiPtus rHer. Stirp. 17, t. 9 (1784); leaves 4-5-5 

 (2*5-7) cm. 1., roundish to ovate, sometimes slightly lobed, some, 

 especially the larger, doubly crenate-serrate, the smaller serrate, 

 both sides with flat stellate hairs, usually only one ray developed 

 on upper surface, with two long-stalked, cup-shaped, small glands 



