318 FLOEA OF JAMAICA Tetrorchidium 



pt. 2,b\1,t.1\, fig. 2; Urb. Symh. Ant. in. 303; Pax in Engl. 

 Pfianzenreich iv. 147. iv. 31. (Fig. 105.) 



Gum Wood. 



Masson ! Lindsay ! Macfadyen ! Pur die ! Holly Mount, Mt. Diablo ; 

 Peckham, Clarendon, 2300 ft. ; Bed Hills, St. Andrew, 1000 ft. ; Albion 

 Pen, St. Ann; Harrisl John Crow (Blake) Mts. Harris d Brittonl Fl. 

 Jam. 8505, 8991, 10,746, 11,085, 11,840, 12,009.— St. Vincent, central and 

 tropical S. America. 



Tree 15-50 ft. high. Leaves obovate- or oblanceolate-elliptical, apex 

 bluntly apiculate or blunt, leathery-membranous, entire or wavy or 

 slightly toothed, glabrous, with two glands at the junction with the petiole, 

 8-20 cm. 1. ; midrib prominent beneath, nerves slightly prominent on both 

 sides, veins few, indistinct on upper surface, slightly prominent beneath ; 

 midrib, nerves and petiole tinged with red; petiole '5-2 cm. 1. Male 

 panicle 8-18 cm. 1. ; female raceme 2-4 cm. 1. Male flowers green : Sepals 

 broadly triangular-concave, midrib keeled inside, puberulous outside, 

 pubescent inside, especially along the keel, 2 mm. 1., 1-7 mm. br. Anthers 

 puberulous, sessile. Female flowers : Sepals broadly triangular, puberulous, 

 about 1 mm. 1. Disk-glands 1-5 -mva. I. Ovary 2-celled. /S%mas red (in 

 Poeppig's plate), spreading close to the ovary. Capsule about 8 mm. 1. 



Purdie states that the gum of this tree is collected and spread on the 

 branches of trees to catch parrots, &c. 



21. CH.ETOCARPUS Thw. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, leathery, with 

 stipules. Flowers dioecious, without petals, pubescent, clustered 

 in the axils, or forming a terminal inflorescence by reduction of 

 the leaves. Disk short, ring-like, or irregularly lobed. Male 

 flowers minute : Calyx irregularly 3-5(-8)lobed, segments 

 imbricate. Stamens indefinite, springing at different levels from 

 ^ central column. Ovary rudimentary, terminating the central 

 column, entire or 2-3-lobed. Female flowers : Calyx as in the 

 male. Ovary 3-celled ; styles 3, distinct, 2-clef t ; ovules solitary. 

 Capsule globular, densely covered with tubercles or spines, 

 splitting up into three cocci with 2-cleft valves. Seeds with a 

 large caruncle ; coat black, shining ; endosperm fleshy ; cotyledons 

 flat, broad. 



Species 8, natives of the tropics in West Indies, South 

 America, Africa, Ceylon and India. 



C. globosus Fawc. d: Mendle in Journ. Sot. Ivii. 312 (1919). 

 Croton globosum Sw. Prodr. 100 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1181. 

 Ricinus globosus Willd. Sp. Fl. iv. 567 (1805). Mettenia globosa 

 Oriseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 43 (1859) ; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 

 pt. 2, 1255 ; Pax in Engl. Pfianzenreich iv. 147. iv. 12. (Fig. 106.) 

 Specimens from Swartz in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



"High mts. of southern Jamaica," Swartz \ Macfadyenl Morce's Gap, 

 Purdie ! Cinchona woods, J.P. 1196, 1273, Hart ! road to Newton ; Morce's 

 Oap, 5000 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5308, 9112. 



Tree to 30 ft., or shrub 4-5 ft. Youngest portions of twigs puberulous. 



