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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Cyathula 



scai'ious, with long, fine hairs ; segments 5, mucronate, or with 

 hooked awns. Stamens 5, united below with staminodes into 

 a cup; anthers 2-celled. Ovary with a filiform style and 

 terminal stigma; ovule 1, pendulous from a long basal stalk. 

 Utricle indehi^cent ; embryo annular, cotyledons oblong-elliptical. 

 Species ■ 1 0, natives of the warmer regions of S. America, 

 West Indies, Africa and Asia. 



Leaves obovate-rhomboid or elliptical. Glochidia 



Boarcely longer than the fruitmg perianth 1. C.proatrata. 



Leaves ovate-elliptical, long acuminate. Glochidia 

 generally nearly twice as long as the fruiting 

 perianth ., 2. C. achyranthoides. 



1. C. prostrata Bl. Bijdr. 549 (1825); leaves obovate-rhom- 

 boid or elliptical, attenuated at base and shortly accuminate or 



Fig. i2..—Cyathvla prottraia Bl. 



A, luflorescence and leaves. 



B, Cluster of flowers. 



C, Hower with three perianth-segments 



removed. 



D, Staminal cup opened out. 

 £, Imperfect flowers. 



¥, Embryo of C. aehyranthoides ; c, coty- 

 ledons ; r, radicle. 



obtuse at apex ; glochidia yellowish, numerous, scarcely as long 

 as the fruiting perianth. — Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. pi. 2, 326 ; 

 Qriseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 63 (in part). Seuh. in Fl. Bras. v. pt. 1, 

 230. Achyranthes prostrata L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 296 (1762). 

 Desmochseta prostrata DC. Cat. Hort. Monspel. 102 (1813); 

 Wight Ic. 733. Type in Herb. Linn. (Fig. 42.) 



