30 POLYGALEiE. 



downwards from the subtiuncate top, rectilinear on the upper margin : longitudinal diameter 

 of the carpid exceeding the breadth of the wing-base.— t/airj'. Amer. Pict. <. 261./. 56 ; 

 flower and samara. Plum. ed. Burm. t. 247./. 1. — S. Tolubilis, Z. {ex cit. Plum., exclus. 

 syn. Jacq!) ; Mey. Fl. Msseq..' : Burmann says, in the description of Humier's plant, " I'ru- 

 ticosa, sarmentosa, scandens," which is not opposed to Jacquin's "rami graeiles, longi, 

 debiles." — A straight-growing shrub, lO'-lB' Ugh, with a rich inflorescence of usually 

 elongated, many-flowered, terminal and axillary racemes; leaves li"-3" long, usually 

 tapering towards the top, pointed or blunt : veins prominent on both sides ; flowers 5"' 

 long, purple {Jacq. : but violet in his figure) or rosy {Kegel) ; wing of the samara about 

 1"' broad at its base, 3"'-4"' at the top : appendage minute, bluntish. — Hab. Trinidad !, 

 Cr.y in rocky woods, and among shrubs ; [S. Thomas to Gruiana !, Panama ! to equatorial 

 BrazUI]. 



10. S. virgata, Sib. Scandent; leaves roundish, glabrous; racemes XxTsm'oaS., filiform, 

 cernuous ; flowers distant, variegated ; inferior sepals ovate-oblong, blunt ; wings orbicular, 

 equalling the shortly bilobed ■ keel ; appendage of the keel ciliate-crenate or snbentire, 

 equalling the lobes ; posterior petals obovate ; " samara rectilinear from the rounded top 

 to the middle, and below it tapering to the base : longitudinal diameter of the carpid ex- 

 ceeding the breadth of the wing-base." — Plum. ed. Burm. t. 248./. 1 ; Tuss. Fl. 4. t. 20. — 

 Sec. n. 1, Br. Jam. S. scandens, Tuss. {non Jacq. nee Lam.). — ^A high climber: branches 

 slender and ending with a number of delicate, racemiferous branchlets, which are about one 

 foot long; leaves 8"'-10"' diam., rounded at both ends or subemarginate, those of the 

 flowering branchlets much smaller; flowers odorous, 4'" long ; the wings rosy on the out- 

 side, white within, and the corolla yellow. The description of the. fruit is taken from 

 Tussac's figures, representing excellently the habit of our Cuba specimens. — Hab. Jamaica 

 (Sw.) ; [Cuba ! to Portorico !]. 



11. S. Iiaiuarckii, Gr. Scandent; leaves ovate or oval, puberulous and glabrescent 

 beneath; racemes simple, lax, axillary and terminal; flowers red; inferior sepals ovate, 

 blunt ; wings orbicular, a little exceeding the bilobed keel ; appendage of the keel denticu- 

 late, equalling the lobes ; posterior petals spathnlate, blunt ; samara puberulous : curved on 

 the anterior margin from the rounded top towards the rectilinear base, posterior margin 

 more straightish, tapering at the base; carpid reticulate: its longitudinal diameter ex- 

 ceeding the breadth of the wing-base. — Lam. Lll. t. 599. /. 1. — S. scandens, Lam. {non 

 Jacq.). S, virgata> iS«i., Martin., n.Z21\ {non Sw.]. — A climber; leaves lV'-2" long, 

 blunt or pointed ; racemes scattered ; fiowers distant, &'" long, rosy, " not odorous " {Lam.) ; 

 samara li" long, 1'" broad at the base of the wing (narrow part only a few lines long), 5'" 

 broad towards the top : wing inserted on the top of the ovoid carpid, which is lined on the 

 anterior margin only with the narrow appendage : the reticulation of the carpid formed by a 

 few prominent lines on the sides. — Hab. Jamaica I, Jfoc/". ; S. Vincent!, Guild.; [Cuba!, 

 Martinique!]. 



12. S. Browmii, Gr. Scandent; leaves oval or oblong, blunt, minutely puberulous, 

 membranaceous; racemes lax, corymtose ; flowers variegated; inferior sepals ovate, 

 rounded ; wings orbicular, equalling the shortly bilobed keel ; appendage of the ked 

 exserted, denticulate; posterior petsSs rounded at the top, oblique and abruptly tapering 

 downwards, exceeded a little by the keel; samara ollong, a little curved towards the 



, puberulous 



glass ; panicle shortly triangular, spreading, constituted of 3"-4" long racemes : pedicels 

 elongated ; flowers 4'" long, purple and variegated vrith yellow : wings spreading ; samara 

 glabrescent, li" long, 6"'-8"' broad towards the top, 4"' at the base : wing inserted on 

 thejrhole posterior margin of the ovoid carpid : appendage rounded, situated at the upper 

 end of its anterior margin.— Hab. Jamaica!, Ma^., Pd., AL, March, common on the 

 limestone-formation of the southern districts ; [Haiti !] . 



5. KEAMERIA, L. 



Sepals 5-4, coroUine. Petals B, smaller, asymmetrical, the three posterior usually con- 

 nected. Stamens 4 (or fcwei-), posterior ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscent by pores. Pistil 



