190 FLOKA OF JAMAICA Clematis 



Species 170, natives of temperate regions, a few in the 

 tropics. 



C. dioiea L. Syst. ed. 10, 1084 (1759) A Sp. PI. ed. 2, 765 ; 

 Mac/. Jam. i. 2 ; Grlseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 1 ; Eichl. in Fl. Bras, 

 xili. pt. 1, 147, t. 33, f. II. & t. 35/. Ill d.e. ; Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 

 236. C. caripensis H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. v. 36 (1821). 

 Clematitis pi*ima <fec. Sloane Cat. "84 «fe Hist. i. 199, t. 128 /. 1. 

 Clematis scandens &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 255. Type in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. (Fig. 77.) 



Traveller'sJoy, Wild Clematis. 



Road between St. Jago de la Vega and Guanaboa, vroods near Angels ; 

 Sloane Herb. iii. 122 I Houstoun ! Wright ! Broughton I Macfadyen 1 

 Distin 1 McNab 1 Manchester, Purdie 1 J. P. 693 Morris ! Yallahs Valley, 

 1700 ft. ; near Troy, 2000 ft. ; Long Mt. west, near Kingston ; Cane River 

 VaUey, 200 ft.; Harris \ Fl. Jam. 6843, 8810, 8844, 10,056.— Cuba, 

 Hispaniola, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, tropical 

 continental America. 



A high climber on shrubs and trees. Leaves (in the Jamaican 

 specimens) temate ; leaflets in the young plant sessile, in older plants 

 stalked, ovate or elliptical, subcordate or obtuse, shortly acuminate, 

 3-5-nerved, to 9 cm. 1. and 7 cm. br. Flowers greenish-white. Sepals 

 6-8 mm. 1. Car-pels in female flower surrounded by a ring of staminodes. 

 Achenes about 20, 4 mm. J. 



The long slender branches are used as withes. " The negroes bruise 

 the leaves of this plant and apply it as a blister; it is very effectual " 

 (Purdie MS.). 



Family XXVI. MENISPERMACE^. 



Climbing shrubs or trees. .Leaves alternate, without stipules, 

 entire ; petiole swollen below the limb. Flowers minute, 

 cymose in panicles or racemes, dioecious. Sepals and petals 

 various in number in dimerous or t.rimerous whorls, sometimes 

 solitary. Stamens in the male flower 4 or 6 (sometimes in- 

 definite), staminodes in the female flower various, in W. Indian 

 genera 6 or wanting ; filaments free or united. Carpels (in W. 

 Indian genera) 3 or 1, ovule solitary. Fruit drupaceous. Seed 

 horsehoe-shaped. 



Species about 350, almost all tropical. 



Leaves ovate or elliptical ,. ... 1. Hyperbaena. 



Leaves roundish, cordate 2. Cissampelos. 



i. HYPERB^NA Miers. 



Trees or climbing shrubs. Leaves ovate, elliptical or oblong, 

 leathery. Male flowers in slender panicles, the branches 

 cymose ; female simpler racemose. Bracts and bracteoles 

 minute, hairy. Sepals 6 in 2 series, the inner sepals about 



