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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Anredera 



2. ANREDERA Juss. 



Boot tuberous. Flowers in simple or branched racemes. 

 Sepals enclosing the petals, keeled, and in fruit broadly winged 

 along the back. Stigmas broadened upwards, or 2-lobed. Coty-- 

 ledons subclavate. 



Specips 1, native of subtropical America from Texas to Peru, 

 including West Indies. 



A. seandens Moq. in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. 2, 230 (1849); 

 Griseh. FI. Br. W. Ind. 60; Vollcens in Engl.-Prantl Pftzfam. 



t Fig. 66. — Anredera scandent Moq. • 



A, Portion of fniitiiig brancli x ji. 



B, Flower cut lengthwise x 10. 



C, Fruit showing the winged calyx x Ti. 



(B and C after Volkens in EngL-Prantl> 

 Pflzfani.) 



Hi. pt. 1, a, 128. Eegopyrum seandens seu volubilis <tc. Sloaue 

 Cat. 46 & Hist. i. 138, /. 90, /. 1. Polygonum seandens L. Sp. 

 PI. 364 (1753). Type in Herb. Linn. 



Near Spanish Town, Sloane Herb. ii. 103 ! — Cuba, subtropical America. 



Leaves ovate, sometimes narrowing at the base, to 8*6 cm. 1., 6 cm. br. ; 

 lower obtuse, very shortly acuminate, upper oblong-ovate, long acuminate. 

 Peduncles 6-20 mm. 1. Spikes longer than the leaves, 2-13 cm. 1., dense- 

 flowered. Sepals in flower about 2 mm. 1., wing in fruit about 4 mm. 1. 

 Petals about 2 mm. 1. 



Cultivated in Spain, Egypt and Philippines, 



