Gynmanthea EUPHORBIACE.'E ' 331 



7 mm. 1., about 1 cm. in diam., 3-lobed-globular, more or less net-veined 

 on surface. Seeds 4-5 mm. in diam., globular, dark brownish ; caruncle 

 flat, circular, white, about 2 mm. in diam. 



The wood is heavy, hard, close-grained, and susceptible of receiving a 

 beautiful polish. It is rich dark brown streaked with yellow, with thick 

 bright yellow sapwood. A cubic foot of absolutely dry wood weighs nearly 

 68 lbs. In Florida it is occasionally manufactured into canes. (Sargent) 



2. G. glandulosa Muell. Arg. in Linnsea xxxii. 106 (1863); 

 leaves 3-7 cm. 1., ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, mem- 

 branous, net-veined more or less prominently especially beneath ; 

 inflore.scence male and female terminal, springing from wood of 

 the same year, monoecious ; bracts : male transversely oblong, 

 sessile on a short peduncle, with a swelling extending up from 

 the peduncle on the back, with one or two groups of minute 

 glands near the apex of the peduncle, with 5 (3-7) flowers ; 

 filaments as long as or somewhat shorter than the anther, 

 united almost or quite to the apex ; female flowers sessile above 

 the bract ; ovary sessile above the bracteoles. — G. jamaicensis 

 TJrh. Symh. Ant. vii. 516 (1913). Excoecaria glandulosa Sw. Fl. 

 Ind. Occ. 1124 (1800). Actinostemon jamaicensis Britton in 

 Torr. Bot. Club xxxix. 7 (1912). Ricini fructu glabro, arbor ic. 

 Sloane Cat. 131 & Hist. ii. 7, t. 158,/. 2. 



Gully between Town savanna and Two Mile Wood, Sloane Herb. v. 57 ! 

 WrigJit I Stoartz 1 Grants Pen, near Albion Estate, Yallahs Bay, Harris £ 

 Britton 1 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 10,643, 10,818, 10,826, 10,936. 



Tree 20-30 ft. high. Leaves crenate-serrulate, rarely with one or two 

 glands at apex of petiole beneath; petioles slender -5-1 cm. 1. Stipules 

 •2--4 mm. 1., linear-acuminate, soon falling. Inflorcsce ace terminal, male 

 only, with about twenty bracts, or male with one sessile female flower at 

 base, or one or two female flowers on a separate spike. Male floivcrs, each 

 with or without one or two lanceolate acuminate bracteoles (sepals of 

 some authors). Stamens 2, rarely 3. Female flowers : Bracteoles (sepals 

 of some authors) 3. Styles united below, free above. Capsule (only valves 

 seen) apparently slightly larger than that of G. integra. Seeds somewhat 

 like those of G. integra, but globular, darker in colour, and somewhat 

 smaller, 8'3 mm. br. ; caruncle wanting. 



. 3. G. elliptiea Sw. Prodr. 90 (1788); leaves 2-5-10 cm. 1., 

 roundish-elliptical to lanceolate-elliptical, somewhat leathery, 

 shining on upper surface, nerves and veins more or less prominu- 

 lous on the upper surface ; bracts small, transversely elliptical, 

 with a large fleshy gland on each side, male 1-flowered ; filaments 

 very short, free ; ovary sessile above the bracteoles ; peduncle as 

 long as, or shorter than the ovary, not increasing in fruit. — 

 Pax torn. cit. 86. Excoecaria tinifolia Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1119 

 (1800); Griseb. op. cit. 51. S ebastiania ellip tiea Muell. Arg. in 

 DC. Prodr. loc. cit. (1866). Specimens from Swartz in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. & Herb. Stockholm. 



Swartz I Bertero ; Macfadyen ! St. Cruz Mts. ; Guava Ridge ; Purdie 1 

 Moneague; Liguanea Hills; Priori March; near Cinchona, J. P. 948, 



