330 



FLOKA OF JAMAICA 



Oymnanthea 



f. 55; Nutt. Sylv. ii. 60, f. 61 ; Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 50. 

 Sebastiania lucida Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 1181 



(I'SB'e). (Fijrrii.) 



Crab Wood. 



Wright ! Broiighton ! Macfadyen 1 Hills behind Ferry, Purdie I March ! 

 Stony Hill, J.P. 1106, Hart t Liguanea plain, Campbell ! Grove, near 

 Gordon Town, 800 ft. ; Long Mt., 800-2500 ft. ; Round Hill, St. Cruz Mts., 

 1500 ft. ; Lititz savanna, 300-900 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5905, 6364, 6439, 

 8643, 8858, 8948, 9605, 9706, 11,768.— Florida and Keys, Bahamas, Cuba, 

 Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Cruz, St. Jan, Tortola, St. Eusta- 

 tius, Antigua, Guadeloupe. 



Shrub or tree 6-15(-30) ft. high. Leaves 3-9 cm. 1., oblanceolate 

 or oblong-obovate, or even obovate-elliptical, ajDex obtuse-, subentire or 



Fig. 111. — Gymnanthes lucida fiw. 

 A, Leaf and inflorescence, nat. size. bracts and tlie niale flowers in their 



B, Upper part of a young inflorescence, 



enlarged. 



C, Part of inflorescence Avith three 



axils, enlarged. 



D, Capsule, nat. size. 



E, Seed X 2. 



slightly crenate-serrulate, with or without one or two glands near the base 

 beneath, leathery, shining on upper surface; nerves and veins prominently 

 net-veined on the upper surface ; petiole 5-10 mm. 1. Floiuers monoecious. 

 Spikes 1-3 cm. 1., 2-sexual or male, terminal and axillary, dense-flowered. 

 Bracts broadly ovate, male 3-fiowered, about 1 mm. 1. Male flowers : each 

 subtended by a bracteole (sepal of some authors), soon falling. Stamens 

 in the middle flower 3-4, in the lateral 2-3; filaments free. Female 

 flowers : Bracteoles (sepals of some authors) scale-like, minute, scarcely 



1 mm. 1., not all springing from the same level. Ovary stalked above the 

 bracteoles; stalk short in the flower but continuing to grow to 1*5 or 



2 cm. 1. in fruit; pedicel in flower about 7 mm. 1., growing to 2-5 or 



3 cm. 1. in fruit. Styles united for about half their length. Capsule 



