104 ' ■ ■ FLORA OF JAMAICA * ScybaUuni 



Fruit a 1 -celled, 1-seeded nut. Seed oblong, with oily endosperm ; 

 embryo very minute, apical. 



Species 4, natives of the West Indies, Brazil and Colombia. 



S. jamaieense Schott d- Endl Melet. 12.tl832); Eichl. in 

 DC. Prodr. xvii. 133 ; Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 210. Cynomorium 

 erectum &c. Browne Hist, Jam. 334. Cynomorium janjaicenise 

 Sw. Prodr. 12 (1788) & Fl. Lid. Occ. 11; Wright Mem. 297. 

 C. coccineum DeHcourt. Fl. Ant. ii. t. 96 (1821-29) (non L.). 

 Phylloooryne jamaicensis Hook. /. in Trana. Linn. Soc. xxii. 51", 

 L 11 (1856) ; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind'. 309. (Pi. 5.) 



In woods on the mountains of the interior during April and May ; 

 Wright 1 Browne ; Swartz ; St. Mary^ Mclfah ! Portland ; Westmoreland ; 

 Purdie ! Wilson ; WuUschlaegel ; Prior ! Harris ! — ^.Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto 

 Bico. 



Rhizome long, cylindrical. Spadices 4-23 cm. 1.-, unisexual, cylindrical 

 or subclavate ; peduncle 1*6-18 cm. 1. Scales greyish-brown, ovate or 

 broadly triangular, acuminate, the lower smaller, about 5 mm. 1., passing 

 into the bracts (15-25 mm. 1.). Capihdunt blood-rfed-coloured, 2-G cm. 1. 

 Male flowers 5 mm. 1., purple; female (incl. styles) about 2-5 mm. 1. 

 Fruit 2 mm. 1. • . . 



Family XIII.* ARISTOLOCHIACEiE. 



Herbaceous or shrubby, sometimes twiniqg (in West Indian 

 species). Leaves alternate. Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth 

 simplej superior, coloured. Stamens generally 6, sometimes 

 more, forming a column with the style (gynostemium) ; anthers, 

 adnate to the column, the cells dehiscing outwardly. Ovary 

 inferior, 6-CQlled (imperfectly or perfectly), the placentas project- 

 ing from the walls into the centre of the ovary and sometimes 

 uniting. Style with 3 or 6 stigmatic lobes.- Ovules numerous,- 

 anatropous, horizoijtal or pendulous. Capsule 6-valved. Embiyo 

 small, enclosed in the abundant fleshy endosperm. 



Species about 200, widely dispersed through the temperate 

 and warmer regions of the whole world. 



ARISTOLOCHIA L. 



Leaves entire or lobed. Peduncles axillary, 1-flowered, 

 generally solitary. Bract none, or simulating a stipule. Perianth 

 irregular, superior,' utriculate round gynostemium, constricted 

 and tubular above, ending in a two-lipped or entire limb, which 

 is sometimes tailed. 



Loaves 3-lobod ...'. ; 1. A. triloba tn. 



Leaves not 3-lobed. 



Perianth-limb 2-lipped 2. A.^-ingens. 



Perianth-limb not 2-lipped. 



Perianth-limb with a loug tail .'{. A. grandiflora. 



Perianth-limb not tailed. 



Perianth-limb cordat6-oblong, mucronate 4. A. odoratissinia. 

 Pecianth-limb cordate-deltoid, obtuse .... 5. A. clegans. 



