192 FLORA OF JAMAICA Hyperbctna 



Forsyth ; Mt. Diabolo, Prior ; near Lighthouse, Negril (fruit, in 

 March), Harrisl Fl. Jam. 10,235. — Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, 

 St. Eustatius, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Guiana, Brazil. 



Climbing shnib (Diels) or tree 30 ft. high (Harris). Leaves variable in 

 shape, elliptical to ovate and to oblanceolate, sometimes pubescent on the 

 nerves beneath, 4-18 cm. 1., 2"5-ll cm. br., nerves and veins minutely 

 reticulate, generally prominent on both sides (vi^hen dry) ; petiole 

 1-2-5 cm. 1., and often kneed below the blade. Inflorescence 5-25 cm. 1., 

 male decompound, female shorter ; branches more or less puberulous. 

 Sepals 1-5-1 -8 mm. 1. Drupe 2 cm. 1., scarlet, finally black. 



2. H. Prioriana Miers Contrih. Bot. lH. 301 (1871); male 

 inflorescence longer than the petiole, lateral cy mules 2-3 mm. 1., 

 rhachis and pedicles ferrugineo-puberulous ; drupe small, - 7 cm. 

 in diam. — Diels torn. cit. 201. 



Moneague, Prior ! Malvern (fr. in Sept.) ; Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 9920. 



Tree 30 ft. high. Leaves ovate to lanceolate 4-5-7 cm. 1., 2-4 cm. br., 

 nerves and veins minutely reticulate, prominent on both sides (when dry) ; 

 petiole 2-4 cm. 1. Infiorescence raceme-like, 3-4*5 cm. 1. ; rhachis and 

 pedicels ferrugineo-puberulous. Sepals 1*6 mm. 1. Drupe obliquely globose- 

 reniform. ., 



3. H. laurifolia IJrh. Symb. Ant. i. 304 (1899) ; inflorescence 

 not longer than the petiole, rhachis and pedicels ferrugineo- 

 tomentellous ; dnipe 2" 5-3 cm. in di&m.-^Urh. Symb. Ant. iv. 

 238 ; Diels torn. cit. 203. H. reticulata Bentli. loc. cit. (in part). 

 H. valida Miers in Ann. d Mag. Nat. Hid. ser. 3, xix. 95 (1867) 

 & Contrib. Bot. Hi. 302. Cissampelos laurifolia Poir. Encyc. v. \\. 



Holland Bay (fr. in July)^ Purdie.—Vovto Rico, -St. Thomas, Mont- 

 serrat. 



A small tre^ 10-16 ft. high. Leaves oblong to lanceolate, 7-22 cin. 1., 

 3-7 cm. br. ; nerves and vein» minutely reticulate, prominent on both 

 sides (when dry) ; petiole 1-5-3 cm. 1. Inflorescences raceme-like, clustered. 

 Sepals •75-1*5 mm. 1. 



2. CISSAMPELQS L. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves roundish or roundish-ovate, 

 subcordate, peltate or with the stalk inserted at the margin. 

 Male flowers in paniculate-corymbose cymes ; female in simple 

 cymes, generally in clusters at the axils of roundish bracts. 

 Male flowers : sepals 4 ; petals united into a short cup ; 

 stamens connate into a column, peltate at the apex with 4 sessile 

 anthers on the margin (in the W. Indian species). Female 

 flowers : sepal 1 ; petal 1, opposite the sepal, and shorter than 

 it ; carpel 1, style 3-lobed, lobes sometimes 2-lobed. Drupe 

 subglobose, more or less hispid. Embryo curved, within the 

 endosperm ; radicle as long as the cotyledons. 



Species about 20, natives of tropical America and South 

 Africa, one (C. pareira) being found in tropics of both worlds. 



