40 FLORA OF JAMAICA Tre«na 



2. T. lima Bl. loc. cit. {ca. 1853) ; leaves elliptical-lanceolate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, 2-6 cm. 1., tomentose, with network of veins 

 prominent. — T. Lamarckianum Bl. loc. cit. Loti arboris folio 

 angustissimo <tc. Sloane Cat. 163 <fe Hist. ii. 80. Rhamnus 

 foliis ovato-oblongis Plum. PL Amer. (Burm.) t. 206, /. 2. Celtis 

 lima Lam. Encyc. iv. 140 (1797) (non Sw.). Sponia Lamarck- 

 iana Dene. loc. cit. (1834); Griseb. loc. cit.; Planch, torn. cit. 204. 



"Rio Cobre near St. Jago de la Vega" ; Seven-mile Walk ; on road to 

 Guanaboa, Sloane ; Wright 1 Caley 1 Macfadyen I Green Valley, J. P. G49, 

 1274, Mcyrris ! Ginger Piece, Blue Mts. ; Kobertsfield, 2000 ft. ; Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 5124, 6508.— Bermuda, Bahamas, Gr. Cayman, Cuba, Hispaniola, 

 Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent. 



Shrub or small tree, 10-20 ft. high. Twigs pubescent. Leaves at base 

 Bubequal or oblique, sometimes more or less cordate on one side only, on 

 the upper surface tuberculose to very rough, '7-2 (-4) cm. br. Cymes 

 short. Drtijpe ovoid, glabrous, about 3 mm. 1. 



Family VIII. MORACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, generally with milky juice, rarely (in 

 Dorstenia) herbs. Leaves alternate, entire, toothed or palmati- 

 lobed, stipulate. Flowers unisexual. Perianth simple, calycine, 

 small, segments imbricate or valvate ; or in the female flower 

 almost closed ; or perianth wanting. Male flowers : stamens 

 generally as many as the lobes of the perianth and opposite to 

 them. Female flowers : ovary superior or more or less inferior, 

 one-celled, consisting of a single carpel. Style undivided, 

 2-toothed or 2-partite. Ovule solitary, sometimes pendulous, 

 anatropous, sometimes erect, orthotropous. Fruit indehiscent, 

 one-seeded, free or variously combined in a pseudocarp of which 

 the receptacle may form part. Seed with little or no endosperm. 

 Embryo often curved, with generally thick, often unequal, 

 cotyledons. 



Species more than 900, widely distributed through the 

 temperate and tropical regions. 



Flowers spicate, male spikes lax or interrupted, female 



short, few-flowered 1. Trophis. 



Male flowers in catkins, female in capitula 2. Chlorophora. 



Male and female flowers together on the surface of a 



flattened receptacle 3. Dorstenia. 



Male flowers in unisexual globose involucrate recep- 

 tacles, female flower solitary on its involucrate 

 receptacle 4. Psetidolmcdia. 



Flowers in androgynous globose receptacles, male 



numerous, female solitary in the centre. 5. Brosimum. 



Male and female flowers enclosed in a fleshy globose 



receptacle with a small opening 6. Ficus. 



Male and female flowers together on a spike, spikes 

 several together enclosed at first within a spathi- 

 form bract 7. Cecropia. 



