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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Nectandra 



Mavis Bank, 2000 ft. ; Papine, 1000 ft. ; Troy, 2000 ft. ; Harris ! Long Jit., 

 360 ft., Campbell ! Fl. Jam. 5098, 5112. 5119, 5207, 5210, 5254, 5508, 5674, 

 5798, 5809, 6321, 7255, 8374, 8746.- West Indies, Yucatan. 



A small tree to 80 ft. high. Leaves elliptical, ovate-elliptical to lan- 

 ceolate-elliptical, acuminate, 6-12 cm, I., 2 -5-4 -5 cm. br. Inflorescence 

 glabrescent, evidently shorter than the leaves; pedicels 3-8 mm. 1. 

 Flowers v?hite, with yellow anthers and rosy pedicels, sweet-scented like 

 Jasmine. Perianth-segments oblong-elliptical, tomentellous on both 

 sides, inner about 3 mm. 1., outer about 2 mm. 1. Berry black, to 

 1*5 cm. 1., about 1 cm. br. ; cupule red, saucer-shaped, about '6 cm. 

 in diam. ; pedicel thickened upwards, passing into the cupule. 



This species seems to us to be so nearly allied to N. sanguinea Roland, 

 that it might perhaps be considered only a form of it. 



7. CASSYTHA L. 



Climbing, parasitical herbs. Stems twining, slender, adhering 

 by means of suckers (" haustoria "). Leaves represented by 

 minute scales. Elowers in spikes or racemes. Perianth, tube 



Fig. S9.—Ccusytha filiformis L. 

 A, Portion of stem with flowers showing D, Pistil x 18. 



attachment to leaf of host-plant by 

 haustoria (h)\ g, leaf -scale X §■ 



B, Flower x f.. 



C, Do. flattened out X 7. 



E, Fruit X 2. 



F, seed in section, showing the inner face 



of a cotyledon (c), and axis of em- 

 bryo (em). 



increasing in fruit and becoming constricted at the apex ; 

 segments 6, the 3 exterior much the smaller. Perfect stamens 

 9, the outer without glands and the 2-celled anthers introrse ; 



