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FLOKA OF JAMAICA 



Juglans 



JUGLANS L. 



Perianth of male flowers concrete with the linear bract, the 

 margin irregularly 5-6-lobed. Stamens inserted on the linear 

 receptacle in 2 or several series, the connection of the anthers 

 generally clavate or dilated at the apex but scarcely extending 

 beyond the cells. In the female flowers the bract and bracteoles 

 are adnate to the ovary at the base forming an involucre with 

 margin irregularly 3-5-lobed or toothed. Perianth limb 4-toothed 

 or 4-lobed. Drupe with wrinkled endocarp. 



Species 9, with distribution of the family. 



Fig. Q.— Juglans jamaicensis C. DC. 



A, Leaf (after Descourtilz). 



B, Female flower. 



C, Fruit. 



D, Putamen (B, C, D after Urban). 



J. jamaieensis C. DC. in DC. Prodr. xvi. pt. 2, 138 (1864).- 

 Urh. in NotizU. Ic. hot. Gart. <£■ Mm. Berlin, i. 29-31, fig. C. E. 

 (1895) <k Symb. Ant. iv. 193. J. fraxinifolia Descourt. FI. med. 

 Ant. vii. 5, t. 453 (1829), non Lam. (Fig. 6.) 



Jamaica (fide Descourtilz), but not found in recent years. — Hispaniola, 

 Porto Rico. 



Leaves 6-9-jugal, leaflets generally alternate, lanceolate, serrate, 

 unequal at base. Female fioiver, perianth-lobes linear, ovary ovate, 

 acuminate, style-branches long, pendulous. Fruit obversely piriform, 

 about 4 cm. 1. and as broad at base; putamen 3-3 '5 cm. 1., 2-7-3 cm. br., 

 concave at base, acuminate above. 



Family VI. BATIDACE^. 



A maritime glabrous shrub, with prostrate stems and 

 numerous opposite ascending branches. Leaves opposite, sessile, 

 fleshy, linear or linear-oblong, semiterete, entire. Flowers 

 dioecious, in strobiles which arc solitary in the axils. Male 

 flowers : strobile sessile ; scales free, tightly imbricate in 4 rows. 



