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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Bcmunculus 



Catherine's Peak, Macfadyen also Eggers ! Cinchona, 5000 ft., Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 6303. — N. America and mountains of GentrtEil and Northern 

 South America, Europe, N. and W. Asia, N. Africa. 



Plant 1 ft. high, villose or pubescent. Leaflets 2-4-5 cm. 1., cuneate, 

 lohed and toothed, entire in uppermost leaves. Sepals spreading, 6-7 

 mm. 1. Petals 5, obovate-elliptical, 1-1*5 cm. 1. Achencs 2"5 mm. 1. 

 (exol. beak), with a curved beak ; receptacle slightly hairy. 



Fig. 76.- 



A, TJpper portion of stem x |. 



B, Fruit X ?. 



-RanunerUus repens L. 



C, Achene cut lengthwise X 10 ; f, endo- 

 , spenn ; e, cotyledons ; r, radicle. 



2. R. reeurvatus Poir. Uncyc. vi. 125. (1804); stems not 

 creeping, leaves 3-cleft. — A. Gr. Synopt. Fl. N. Amer. (ed^ Robinson) 

 i. pt. 1, 33. 



Morse's Gap, Blue Mts. ; Morris ! also Harris I PI. Jam. 6804 ; also 

 O. Nichols ! — N. America from Nova Scotia to Florida. 



Erect, villose. Leaves mostly radical and round-<ordate in outline, 

 3-cleft to beyond the middle, lobes obovate-rhomboid, incised and dentate, 

 of upper leaves oblong^lanceolate, uppermost leaves (floral) 3-5-sect and 

 sometimes entire, lanceolate, in the Jamaican specimens from Morse's 

 Gap only the lower surface is villose, the upper being quite glabrous. 

 Sepals reflexed, 3 mm. 1. Petals obovate-elliptical, 3-4 '5 mm. 1. Ach<!nes 

 minutely pitted, with a long slender circinate-rovolute beak, 2 mm. 1. 

 (excl. beak) ; receptacle hispid. 



Var. tropicus comb. nov. ; leaves 3-foliate or S-sect. — 

 R. repens var. tropicus. Garnet. Fl. Br. W. Ind. \ (1859). R. 

 cubensis Griseb. Cat. Cub. 1 (1866); Urb. Symb. Ant: vi. 87. 



McNab I Blue Mt. Peak, Macfadyen ! Portland Gap, 5600 ft., Harris I 

 Fl. Jam. 5891 — Cuba, Hispaniola. 



