Bernardia EUPHORBIACEJi: 291 



Muell. Arg. in Linnsea xxxiv. 172 (1865) & in DC. Prodr. xv. 

 pt. 2, 917; Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 345. B. viscosa Griseh. in Mem. 

 Acad. Amer. Sci. & Art. n.s. viii. 159 (1860). B. Bernardia 

 Millsp. in Field Col. Mus. Bot. ii. 58, 155 (1900). Adelia 

 Bernardia L. Syst. ed. 10, 1298 (1759) & Amoen. v. 383. (Fig. 94.) 

 There is a specimen from Browne in Herb. Linn, in genus cover 

 Adelia, and named by Linnaeus Bernardia. A type from Grisebach 

 is in Herb. Kew. 



Houstoim ! Broione ! Wright ! Masson ! Bertero ; Wilson ! March ! 

 Long Mt., 350 ft., CamphelV. Round Hill, St. Cruz Mts., 1600 ft. ; Luana 

 Point; Long Mt., 100 ft.; Albion Mt., St. Thomas; Harris \ Fl. Jam. 

 6146, 9704, 9902, 11.945, 12,192.— Bahamas, Cuba, Cayman, Hispaniola, 

 Porto Rico, St. Vincent. 



A straggling shrub, 2-18 ft. or tree 25 ft. high, monoecious or dioecious. 

 Leaves 3-10 cm. 1., elliptical-ovate, oblong-ovate, or lanceolate, serrate, 

 tomentose with some stellate hairs on both sides ; nerves 2 on each side 

 at base, pinnate, slightly prominent beneath; petiole 5-12 cm. L, 

 tomentose; stipules linear-acuminate, 2 mm. 1. Spikes '8-3 '4 cm. 1. or 

 shorter, tomentose. Bracts: male, about 1*5 mm. 1., densely puberulous 

 outside, transversely somewrhat elliptical, margin serrate, with 3-5 flowers ; 

 female, one with 2 bracteoles under each flower, narrowly o^ate. Male 

 floicers opening after fall of subtending leaf: Calyx about 2 mm. 1., 

 puberulous outside ; segments elliptical, acute. Receptacle glandular. 

 Sta7ne7is 15-25, longer than the calyx. Female flowers : Calyx about 

 2"5mm. 1., puberulous outside; segments unequal, ovate, acute. Ovary 

 densely tomentose. Capsule globular-3-lobed, tomentose, 7 mm. 1. Seeds 

 globular-ovoid, slightly 8-angled, marbled with blackish marks, 6 mm. 1. 



11. ADELIA L."- (in part). 



Shrubs, glabrous (except inflorescence), more or less spiny. 

 Leaves alternate or crowded at the nodes, membranous or 

 papery (when dry), entire ; petioles very short. Flowers small, 

 dicecious, without petals, clustered on cushions in axils of leaves, 

 the male short-stalked or sessile, the female long-stalked, 

 solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3. Male flowers : Calyx closed in 

 bud, valvately 5-parted in flowering. Disk attached to the base 

 of the calyx. Stamens 8-15 ; filaments attached to a central 

 column or prominence ; anthers versatile, attached near the base 

 at the back, cells parallel, opening longitudinally. Female 

 flowers : Calyx 5-parted, valvate. Disk flattened. Ovary 

 3-celled ; styles 3, reflexed-spreading, much cut ; ovules solitary. 

 Capsule splitting up in three 2-valved cocci. Seeds subglobular, 

 without a caruncle. 



Species about 10, natives of the West Indies and Central 

 America. 



* Adelia of Browne (Hist. Jam. 361, t. 36, f. 3) is Foresticra porulosa 

 Poir. (Encyc. Suppl. ii. 664) = Myrica scgrcgata Jacq. (CoU. ii. 273) = 

 Adelia segregafa Kuntze Rev. Gen. ii. 409 {Olcace.r). 



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