504 



FLOltA OF JAMAICA 



Acidotorv 



1300 ft. ; Glasgow, near Troy, 1400 ft. ; Malvern to Mountain Side, 400 ft. ; 

 Peckham, Clarendon, 2500 ft. ; Tyre, near Troy, 2200 ft. ; Harris\ Fl. Jam. 

 8682, 8733, 9181, 9433, 9920a, 10,951, 12,643. Type from Swartz in Herb. 

 Stockholm. 



Shrub 5 to 15 ft. high, or slender tree 15 to 25 ft. high, branches with 

 deciduous stinging hairs. Leaves 5-12 cm. 1., in two rows on the branch, 

 narrowly-elliptical or narrowly oblong-elliptical, apex acute or subacu- 

 minate, base obtuse, margin usually entire, sometimes with 1 or 2(-4) large 

 teeth or small acute lobes, ciliate with pellucid stinging hairs, at length 

 glabrate; petioles 3-6 mm.- 1.; stipules triangular, acute or acuminate, 

 4-5 mm. 1. Male floirers : Pedicels 1-2 cm. 1. Bracteoles about 4 mm. \. 



Fig. 99. — Acidotoa ureng Sw. 



A, Part of branch with male inflorescence 



X ^ 



B. Male flower cut lengtliwise and sepals 



cut short X 4. 



0, Anthers, back and front X 10. 



D, Female flower x 4. 



E, Coccus, nat. size. 



F, Seed x 1',. 



Sepals about 6 mm. 1. Anther-cells pai-allel dehiscing outwards, connective 

 terminated by a cluster of very short hairs. Female flotvers : Pedicels 

 1-2 mm. 1. Bracteoles 5-6 mm. 1. Sepals about 5 mm. 1., narrower than 

 in the male. Styles bending outwards, covered on the inner side with 

 white fleshy hairs' Capsule 1 -5 cm. in diam., 6-7 mm. high, black, covered 

 with white stinging hairs. Seeds globular, about -5 cm. in diam., brown 

 with white spots. 



16. TRAGIA L. 



Climbing or twining perennial herbs or underslirubs, genei-ally 

 hispid or rough with hairs which are often .stinging. Leaves 

 alternate, toothed, often cordate, pinnate-nerved, Avith one or 



