18 CAPPABIDEJ!. 



back, (while the calyx, ia only sealy) ; fruit 9"-10" long (8'" diam.), somewliat torulose, 

 iusty-Ieprous, six times longer than the gynophore. — Hab. Jamaica !, S. Lucia !, S. Vincent !, 

 Guild., chiefly on the seashore; [Mexico \, New Granada I]. 



Sect. 3. QuADEELLA.— iScpaZi distinct, valvate: bud tdragonal, by their margins somewhat 

 revolute. Fruit silique-shaped, dry and opened by rupture. 



15. C. jamaicensis, Jacq. Leaves lauceolate-oblong or elliptical, glabrous above, 

 leprous beneath ; flowers corymbose ; sepals (4'" long) ovate, about half the length of the 

 leprous cqroiU; stamens 16-32, exaerted.^^Sr, Jam. t. 27./. 1 ; Jacq. Amer. Fid. t. 150. 

 — A shrub or shrubby tree, 6'-10'high; branches and inflorescence densely covered with 

 scales ; leaves 2i"-4i" long, shining above, silvery or ps^le-rusty beneath : petiole 6'" long ; 

 corymbs axillary and terminal; sepals usually somewhat keeled, either pointed or more 

 elliptical and blunt, leprous on the back and downy internally > petals white and at length 

 purpurascent, leprous on the bacli, glabrous on the interior surface ; fruit extremely variable 

 in length (12"-3"), and in proportion to the gynophore, either ten times or only double its 

 length, in the development of the gynophore (6"'-2"), and in the valves either continuous 

 or torulose. 



a. emarginata. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, emarginate or rounded at the top. — Rich. Cub. 

 t. 9. — C. emarginata, JMch. — This form is the same with the original type of Jacquin. 



iS. sitijuosa. Leaves elliptical or elliptical-lanceolate, pointed. — Ilesc. Fl. 5. t. 373.— 

 C. siliquosa, I. {exclus. syn. Pluken.). C. torulosa, Sw.: the form vrith torulose fruit. 

 C. Breynia, L., partim ; Sie. Observ. ; DC. ; Macfad. {non Jacq.) : the form with almost con- 

 tinuous fruit. C. intermedia, Kth. {ex specim. Cuman.) : a form with a short gynophore, 

 introduced into Earbadoes I C. ferruginea, Deso, (non L.).-^-Yi.kB. Jamaica !, Macfad., Pd., 

 Al., Wils., March («, |8) ; S. Lucia, Anders. ; S. Vincent I, Guild. ; Earbadoes ! ; Tri- 

 nidad!, Sieb. Trin. 97; [Venezuela!, Para I]. 



Sect. 4 Cynophaha. — Calyx i-fartite or i-lobed: divisions imbricate, concave. 

 Fruit usually silique^shaped, baccate, opening by rupture. 



16. C. cynophallophora, L. Leaves leathery, glabrous, oblong or heteromorphous, 

 blunt, shortly petioled, furnished with an oblong, axillary gland ; peduncles few-flowered ; 

 calyx 4i-partite (4'" long) : segments roundish ; petals large, obovaie, exceeding three times 

 the calyx and exceeded as much by the indeflnite stamens ; fruit linear, exceeding or equalling 

 the gynophore. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 145. — C. flexuosa, i. — A shrub or tree, 8'-25'high; 

 branches long, flexuose, sometiraes subscandent, glabrous and without scales ; leaves 2"-3" long, 

 occurring in all forms between oblong and orbicular and linear, shining above and opaque 

 beneath : petiole usually 2"'-3"' long ; calyx divided nearly to the base : two exterior sepals 

 smaller ; corolla white or pale-rosy ; fruit variable in length (7"-3"), in thickness (8"'-4"'), 

 and in proportion to the gynophore (which is 2"-3" long) : valves either continuous or toru- 

 lose, opened gradually, either on one or on both sides ; endocarp red. 



u. Leaves oblong, oblong-elUptical or oblong-lanceolate, blunt or emarginate ; axillary 

 glands oblong, subtruncate. — Deso. Fl. 5. t. 355. — C. Isevigata, Mart. (Bahia: Salem.) : a 

 form with narrow, torulose fruits. 



;3. latifolia. Leaves roundish ; axillary glands minute or abortive. 



y. saligna. Leaves linear or lanceolate-linear. — Jacq. Amer, Pict. 1. 147 : an aberration 

 with hastate leaves. — C. hastata, L. : the same. C. saligna, Vahl. C. longifolia, Su>. ; a 

 form with the leaves leprous beneath, which has been considered by Macfadyen as the early 

 baiTon shoots of o. — Hab. Jamaica!, Dist., Wils.; Dominica!, S. Lucia I, Anders.; 

 Trinidad !, Zockh,, chiefly on the seashore ; [Panama ! to Bahia ! and Guayaquil 1 along 

 both the coasts]. 



17. O. eustachiana, Jacq. Leaves leathery, glabrous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, shortly petioled, furnished with an obovoid axillary gland ; peduncles few-flowered; 

 calyx 4s-partite (3'" long) : segments roundish ; petals oblong, glabrous, exceeding three 

 times the calyx and exceeded twice by the subindefinite stamens ; fruit linear, equalUug the 

 gynophore. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. i. 146. — C. cynophallophora, 7. attenuata, Gr. {Pl.Carib.). — 

 It has the same habit as the preceding species, but seems distinct by the petals being nar- 

 rower and only twice exceeded by the stamens : leaves 3"-4" long ; petals 8"'-9"' long, 

 rosy ; stamens about 20-24 ; fruit 4" long. — Hab. Antigua !, S. Vincent I, GuUd., in the 

 mountain woods; [S. Eustache!]. 



