CONU'ER^. 503 



incomplete, longitiidiud dissepiment and by a transverse stricture : the pairs one above the 

 other. Stigma blunt. Drwpe usually 4-seeded.— A glabrous tree {or shrub) ; leaves scat- 

 tered, entire. 



1. B. daphnoides, L.—Jacq. Jmer. Pict. t. 261. /. 57 : the flower. Besc. Fl. 6. 

 t. 386. — 30'-10' high; leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 4"-2" long : pedicels mostly single, as 

 long as the flower ; calyx-segments subulate, ciliate, 1'" long ; corolla yellow, variegated 

 with purple, 10"'-12"' long ; drupe ovate, pointed, yellowish, 5"' loug.— Hab. Barbuda !, 

 Nichols., Antigua !, Nichols., WullscM., Barbadoes ; naturalized in Jamaica ; Trinidad !, Cr. ; 

 [Haiti, French islands !]. 



CXXIII. CONIPEEJ;. 



Flowers unisexual, naked, reduced to single stamens and open carpophylls, often amenta- 

 ceous, and S devoid of bracts. Syncarpium a cone, rarely fleshy. Embryo axile, developed 

 with the albumen in a secondaiy sac of the ovule : cotyledons whorled or 2. — Woody plants : 

 the wood devoid of vessels ; leaves simple, entire, rigid, often acerose. 



Kesin and volatile oils are universal in this order. The West Indian Coniferce are timber- 

 trees. 



1, JUNTPERUS, i. 



Mowers in small catkins, usually dioecious. Anthers 3-8-celled : cells near the base of 

 the scale-like connective. Bracts of ? becoming fleshy, coalescent, (forming the galbnlus), 

 inferioi; sterile : ovules 3-1, erect, atropous. Cotyledons 2(-3). — Leaves acerose or minute, 

 opposite or in threes. 



1 . J. barbadeusis, L. Leaves channelled on the back with a linear, glandular yar- 

 row, on older ^ateral branches minute, decussately imbricate, deltoid-ovate, blnntish, on 

 younger shoots subulate-lanceolate, acuminate; galbuli globose, glaucous-black, usually 

 shorter than their supporting branohlet. — SI. t. 157. y. 3. — J. bermudiana, Lun. (non L.). 

 — Combined liy Endlicher with /. virginiana, L., which is quite distinct by having a short 

 gland and no linear fui-row on the back of the leaves, and by the galbnli ovate-obtusate. — A 

 large tree ; small leaves ^'"-V", larger ones 2"'-3"' long. — Hab. Bahamas ; Jamaica (SI.), 

 in the Blue mountains ; Antigua !, Wullschl., at Cedar hall, Barbadoes. 



2. PINUS, £. 



Flowers amentaceous, monoecious. Anthers 2-celled. Carpophylls separated hy bracts 

 (i.e. by organs homologous to the stamens), forming a cone, 2-ovuIate : ovules anatropous. 

 Cotyledons whorled. 



2. P. bahameusis, Gr. {n. sp). Leaves . . . ; cones shortly peduncled, conical-cylin- 

 drical, blnntish, (3i" long) : apophysis convex-depressed, transversely keeled, polished 

 brown, umbilicate at the middle : umbo pyramidal or compressed-conical, pointed, spreading. 

 — Of this timber-tree the cones only are known as yet : from its vernacular name (Pitch- 

 Pine) it may belong to the section T<xda, in which there ai-e three leaves in the bundle. — 

 Hab. Bahamas I : Kew Museum. 



