172 FLORA OF JAMAICA Talinum 



Mac/. 11. 169. Portulaca paniculata Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 22 

 <1760); Sel. Stirp. Amer. 148 & Ed. pict. t. 136 (non L.). 

 P. patens L. Mant. 242 (1771); Jacq. Eort. Vindob. ii. 71, 

 /. 151 (1772). Specimen from Jacquin in Herb. Mus. Brit. 

 (Fig. 64.) 



Broughton ! Sea-side ; roadsides in the mountains, Macfadyen ; Distin I 

 Marchl August . Towti, 550 ft., Campbelll near Hope, 700 ft., Harnsl 

 Orabham ! Mavis Bank, Fawcett 1 — Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. 

 Thomas, St. Cruz, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, Bequia, Barbados 

 (cult.), Grenada, Margarita, tropical continental America. 



Stems somewhat shrubby, erect from a tuberous root, 1-2J ft. high. 

 Leaves thick, elliptical, tapering to the stalk-liko base, 4-8 cm. 1., 2-4 

 cm. br. Flowers in a terminal panicle, of which the branches are cjrmes. 

 Sepals 3-4 mm. 1. Petals rosy or yellow, ephemeral, 4-5 mm. 1. Stamens 

 15-20. Seeds black, minutely striolate. 



2. T. triangulape Willd. Sp. PI. ii. 862 (1800) ; pedicels 

 with 3 angles ; sepals persistent. — Haw. Succ. 1 23 ; Mac/. 

 Jam. ii. 169 ; Ch'iseh. op. cit. 56 ; Urb. loc. cit. T. racemosuni 

 Bohrb. torn. cit. 297 (1872). Helianthemum frutescens, Portu- 

 lacse folio. Plum. Cat. 7 & PI. Amer. (Burm.) t. 150, /. 2. 

 Portulaca triangularis Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 22 (1760) «.\: 

 Sort. Vindob. Hi. t. 52. P. i-acemosa L. Sp. PI. 640 (1762). 



Distin ! Long Mt., 30 ft. ; Pedro Plain ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9601, 9938. 

 — Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Cruz, St. Bartholomew, Guadeloupe, 

 Martinique, Grenada, Margarita, S. America. 



Succulent plant. Stems somewhat shrubby, erect, simple or much 

 branched if broken down to the branching root, to 2 ft. high. Leaves 

 obovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 2-4(-6) cm. 1., l-l-5(-2-5) cm. br. 

 Flowers in a raceme, either simple and few-flowered, or long, branching 

 and many-flowered. Sepals 5 mm. 1. Petals yellow, sometimes rosy or 

 white, roundish-elliptical, 8-9 mm. 1., 6 mm. br., 10-12 mm. in diam. 

 Stamens about 30. Seeds black, minutely striolate. 



Family XXI. BASELLACE^. 



Glabrous herbs with twining stems. Leaves alternate, entire'. 

 Flowers small, regular, hermaphrodite, in axillary spikes or 

 panicles. Bract one at base of the pedicel. Bracteoles 2 at apex 

 of the pedicel, small. Sepals 2, sometimes adnate to the base of 

 the corolla. Corolla 5-partite. Stamens 5, inserted on a hypo- 

 gynous disk adnate to the base of the corolla, opposite to the 

 petals ; anthers versatile, filaments (in West Indian species) 

 reflexed in bud. Ovary free, 1 -celled, with one erect short-stalked 

 ovule. Style short ; stigmas .3, thickened towards, the apex, 

 obtuse or 2-3-lobed. Seed erect. Embryo (in West Indian 

 species) semiannular, surrounding the endosperm. 



Species about 15, mostly American. 



Sepals not winged in fruit.. 1. Boussingaultia. 



Sepals mt]ged in fruit 2. Atiredera. 



