122 FLORA OF JAMAICA Coccoloba 



In his copy of Browne's Natural History of Jamaica, page 

 .210, Linnaeus identifies his species with the following species 

 of Browne's : — " Coccolobis montana major arborea, foliis sub- 

 rotundis, cortice levi. The Mounta,in Grape Tree. This tree 

 is frequent abo\it the Cross in Clarendon ; it grows to a con- 

 siderable size, and is looked upon as a fine timber-wood." 

 Through the kindness of Mr. Robert Craig we have obtained 

 specimens of " Mountain Grape " from the Cross in Clarendon. 

 These comprise two species, C. laurifolia and C. Krugii, but do 

 not agree with the specimen in the Linnean Herbarium. 



[ANTIGONON Endl. 



Stem climbing, shrubby below. Leaves alternate. Ochrese 

 scale-like or reduced to a line. Flowers hermaphrodite in 

 terminal and axUlary racemes, the peduncle ending in a 

 branched tendril. Perianth with 5 segments, increasing in size 

 in the fruit, coloured, the 3 exterior segments larger, cordate, 

 the 2 interior oblong. Stamens 8 united into a tube, staminodes 

 alternate, tooth-like. Styles 3. 



A. leptopus Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. 308, /. 69 (1840) ; 

 Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 184 ; Hook. /. Bot. Mag. t. 5816. 



Coralilla. 



Commonly cultivated and sometimes an escape. — Mexico. 

 Leaves ovate with cordate base, entire, 7-12 cm. 1. Perianth bright 

 rose colour, at length about 1 cm. 1.] 



Family XV. CHENOPODIACE^. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, 

 reduced to scales in Salicornia. Flowers l-2-8exual, small, regular. 

 Perianth inferior, of 3-5 free or connate segments, imbricate in 

 bud. Stamens as many as the perianth-segments, or fewer, and 

 opposite to them. Ovary 1 -celled; stigmas 2-5; ovule solitary, 

 basal or lateral, campy lotropous. Fruit usually with a bladdery 

 pericarp (utricle), enclosed in the often enlarged fleshy calyx. 

 Seeds with or without floury or fleshy endosperm ; embryo 

 annular or conduplicate (Salicornia). 



Species about 550, widely dispersed through the world, 

 mostly in temperate regions, some on the shores of the sea or 

 salt lakes, others in desert places. 



Stem leafy. Flowers in clusters or spikes. 



Flowers hermaphrodite 1. Ch^nopodium. 



Flowers unisexual 2. Atriplex. 



Stem leafless. Flowers sunk in cavities of the joints ... 3. Salicornia. 



