406 APOCYNSa!. 



4. FOKESTIERA, Fair. 

 (Addia, P. Br., non L.) 

 Flowers polygamous, in stort, axillary, amentaceous racemes. Calyx 4-partite, minute, 

 deciduous. Petals 0. Stamens 4-2pl). Style cylindrical; stigma capitate-emargiuate. 

 Drupe 1-seeded by abortion : seeds albuminous. — Shrubs ; leaves simple, variable. 



5. P. cassinoides, Pair. I^xehts. syn. P. Sr.). Glabrous (or glabrescent) ; leaves 

 rigid, elliptical-roundish or elliptical-oblong, quite entire, petioled, slightly dotted (or nearly 

 dotless) beneath ; drupe obliquely oblrnig, hluntish, longer than the pedicel. — leaves Zi"-l", 

 di-upe 6'" long, the latter black with bluish bloom.— Hab. Bahamas I, Ejahnan., Turk 

 Islands; Jamaica!, Pd., S. Elizabeth, in the Santa Cruz mountains ; [Guadeloupe!]. 

 /6. P. porulosa, Fair. Glabrous; leaves leathery, lanceolate-oblong or elliptical, usually 

 /blunt, quite entire, cuneate at the subsessile base, dotted beneath ; drwpe obliquely ellip- 

 soidal, bluntish or subacute, nearly as long as the pedicel. — Br. Jam-, t. 36./. 3. Jacq. 

 f 7c. iJar. <. 635 ; a larger leaved form.— A delia, J/«cA. Borya, Fl Myrica segregata, /acy. 

 -Piptolepis phyllyreoides, Benth. I : I however saw no more than 4 stamens. — Leaves 6"-2" 

 J5 long, often shining above ; drupe 4'" long, with a bloom. — Hab. Jamaica !, March, common 

 in the low hills east of Kingston (P. Br.) ; [Cuba I, Florida, Texas !, Mexico !]. 



CVIII. JASMINES. 



Stamens 3, inserted into the sympetalous, imbricative corolla. Ovary superior, syncar- 

 pous, 3-celled : ovules single (or few) in each cell, ascending. ' Seeds exalbuminous, or nearly 

 so. — Shrubs, often climbing; leaves exstipulate, usually opposite; inflorescence corymbi- 

 , form-cymose. 



1*. JASMINUM, L. 



Corolla salver-shaped ; limb 5-8-partite. ^Berry didymous. — Leaves compound, or 1- 

 foliolate loith a jointed petiole ; Ao'wers fragrant. 



1*. J. officinale, L. Glabrous ; leaves opposite, impari-pinnate : leaflets 3-jugal, 

 ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, terminal acuminate ; cymes lax, few-flowered, terminal and from 

 the uppermost axils ; calyx-lobes linear ; corolla white : tub^ exceeding the calyx, lobes oval, 

 • — Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica, Atitigiia!, Wullschl.; [introduced from Asia]. 



3*. J. gracile, Andr. Glabrous; branches cylindncal, scandeut; leaves opposite, 1- 

 foliolale, ovate, pointed ; cymes trichotomous, terminal ; calyx-teeth minute ; corolla white ; 

 tube much longer than the calyx, nearly as long as the oblong lobes. — Jacq. Schtenbr. t. 331. 



~. volubile, Jacq. — Hab, Naturalized in Jamaica !, March ; [introduced from the Pacific 



GIX. APOCTNB^. 



Stamens 5, inserted into the sympetalous, Contorted (rarely valvate) corolla. » Ooariea 



superior, usually 2, united by the style or ovary of 2 connected carpophylls, 3-1 -celled : 



placentas usually mauy-ovulate. Seeds mostly albuminous : cotyledons usually foliaceous. 



■ ^Leaves entire, ttsually opposite, often with stipular glands or fringes ; inflorescence 



cymose. 



The millcy sap is rich in Caoutchouc (prepared in Jamaica from Bchites paludosa, Pd.), 

 and it affords drastic medicines {e.g. Allamanda, Bauwolfia). It is said to be not milky, 

 but is very poisonous in the anomalous genus Strychnos, which on the continent affords the 

 Curare-poiaon. The drupe of Thevetia is poisonous too. From Bchites suberecta starch is 

 extracted in Jamaica. 



Series 1. EauwolflesB. — Connective not produced below the anther-cells. Seeds devoid 

 of a coma (rarely comose). — CoroUa, in the West Indian genera, sinistrorsely contorted 

 (except in Strychnos). 



1. STRYCHNOS, i. 

 Calyx S-4-partite. Corolla salver-shaped or rotate : lobes valvate. Stamens inserted 



