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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Drymaria 



Annual. Leaves roundish, subcordate at base, sometimes kiduey- 

 shaped, variable in size, 2 mm.-2 cm. br. Sepals lanceolate-elliptical, 

 variable in size, 2-3-5 mm. 1. Petals shorter than sepals, deeply bifid. 

 Capsule shorter than the calyx. Seeds 8-2, granulose, about 1 mm. 1. 



Fig. 67. — Drymaria eordata WiUd. 



A, Apex of bi-anch X j- E> Seed x 12. 



B, Flower-bud openftife X 5. F, Do. cut lengthwise X 12 ; e, endo- 



C, Do. open X 5: sperm ; e, cotyledons ; r, radicle. 



D, Capsule open x 5. 



2. ARENARIA L. 



Herbs. Flowers in terminal leafy, paniculate cymes or 

 solitary, axillary. Sepals 5. Petals 5, entire. Stamens 10, 

 inserted on a disk. Ovary 1-celled ; styles 3. Capsule with 

 3 deeply-divided, as it were six, valves. Sandwort. 



Species 100, natives* of the whole world, but rare in the 

 tropics except in the mountains. 



A. lanuginosa Rohrh. in Fl. Bras. xiv. pt. 2, 274, t. 63 

 (1872) ; Williams in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxiii. 377. Spergulas- 

 trum lanuginosom Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. i. 275 (1803). Stellaria 

 elongata Mitt. Gen. Amer. i. 289 (1818) ; DC. Prodr. i. 399. 

 Arenaria diffusa Ell. Sketch i. 519 (1818); Macf. Jam. i. 54; 

 Griseb. ^l. Br. W. Ind. 55. (Fig. 68.) 



Mountains, Bancroft ! Macfadyen ! MeNab ! Wilson 1 Morris 1 McNeil's 

 Estate, 2,500 ft., Eggers I — Bermuda, America from North Carolina to 

 Patagonia. 



