152 FLORA OF JAMAICA Pisonia 



3. P. fragrans Dumont Corns. Bot. Cult. ed. 2, vii. 114 (1814) ; 

 leaves very variable even on the same branch, elliptical or 

 obovate-elliptical to obovate-lanceolate, apex subacuminate, obtuse 

 or rounded, base attenuated or obtuse, membranous, almost the 

 same colour on both sides, nerves distinct, arching towards the 

 margin, veins very few and indistinct, with short glabrous slender 

 stalks ; panicle solitary, erect, terminal, corymbiform, many- and 

 subdense-flowered, when young brown-puberulous, at length glab- 

 rate ; male flowers with funnel-shaped perianth ; stamens 6-8 ; 

 female perianth tubular with expanding limb irregularly denti- 

 culate ; style exserted ; stigma multifid ; anthocarp oblong-ellip- 

 soidal, subfleshy on outside, ribbed (when dry). — Urb. torn. dt. 225, 

 P. obtusiita Griseh. he. cit. (in part) (non Jacq.) ; Heimerl 

 op. cit. 624 (in part), P. inermis Griseh. loc. cit. (1859) (in 

 part) (non Jacq.). P. Harrisiana Heimerl in Urb. Symb. Ant. 

 vii. 214 (1912). Torrubia inermis Britten torn. cit. 614 (1904). 



Wright I Lindsay ! Hartweg ! near Port Maria, Purdie 1 Wilson ! 

 iloneaguc, Prior I March I Montego Bay, McCatty ! Cherry Garden, 600 ft. ; 

 Hope ; Rock Fort (sea coast) ; Campbell ! Claverty Cottage, 2000 ft. ; 

 Sheldon Road, 2600 ft. ; Stony Hill, 900 ft. ; Long Mt., 100 ft. ; Chelsea 

 Hill, S. Cruz Mts., 2200 ft. ; Potsdam, 2600 ft. ; Spur Tree HiU, 1800 ft. ; 

 near Malvern, 400 ft. ; near Ferry ; Tyre. Fl. Jam. 5764, 6030, 6063, 6369, 

 6520, 8385, 9577, 9688, 9779, 9820, 9857, 9917, 10,814.— West Indies. 



Shrub or tree 18-25 ft., sometimes to 50 ft. high. Branchlets ashen- 

 grey. Leaves 4-5-10 cm. 1., 2-5-5 cm. br. ; petioles "5-1 -5 cm. 1. Flowers 

 tawny-yellow, sessile or subsessile. Perianth, male 4 mm. 1., female 

 3 mm. 1. Stamens to 8 mm. 1., much exserted. Fncit 0-5-10 mm. 1., 

 3-4 mm. thick, red. 



4. P. diseolor Spring. Syat. ii. 168 (1825); leaves variable, 

 broadly or narrowly elliptical, oblong, obovate or oblanceolate, 

 base cuneate or rarely rounded, stalked, apex obtuse or rounded, 

 thin, often much lighter-coloured beneath, nerves more or less 

 indistinct, arching towards the margin ; petioles slender ; inflor- 

 escence lax, generally two or more panicles or racemes together, 

 from shortened shoots in tlie axils of leaves, few-flowered, ultimate 

 branches somewhat tomentose or glabrous ; flowers puberulous or 

 glabrescent ; fruit fleshy on outside, oblong or somewhat obovoid, 

 red, pulp rather thin, ribbed (when dry). — Choiay op. cit. 443; 

 Ch-iseb. op. cit. 710; Heimerl in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxi. 626. 

 Torrubia discolor Britton torn. cit. 613 (1904). T. longifolia 

 Britton torn. cit. 614 (1904). 



Wright I Bcrtero ; March I Long Mt., near sea-coast, Qiabham I Long 

 Mt. ; Pedro Bluff, Black River, Spur Tree Hill, 1800 ft., Harris I Fl. Jam. 

 7871,7872,8923,9577,9732, 9735, 9855, 9867.— Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola. 



Shrub (often trailing) or tree to 18 ft. high. Leaves 2-6-5 cm. 1., 

 l-4cm.br. ; petioles -2-1-2 cm. 1. i'^/oujers sessile or subsessile. Perianth, 

 male 4-4-5 mm. 1. (fide Heimerl), female about 3 mm. 1. Fruit 7 mm. 1. 



