104 THALAMJFLORAi. 
to form a subglobose 5-angular 5-celled capsule ; finally distinct. 
Seeds solitary. 
3. Riedleia virgultosa. Twiggy Riedleia. 
Leaves ovato-lanceolate serrated appresso-villous, 
raceme terminal, interrupted, leafless, stem hairy. 
R. Jamaicensis, Bertero, apud De Cand. Prod. I. 492. (?) 
Melochia venosa,(?) Swartz , PI. Itid. Occ. 1137. — Riedleia 
venosa,(?) De Cand. Prod. I. 492. 
HAB. Road from Norbrook to Dolly-Mohun’s Gap, and near 
Maryland cooper shop, St Andrew’s. 
FL. After the May and October rains. 
Frutescent: stem about 2 feet in height: branches few, sub- 
simple, virgultose, terete, hairy, subtomentose, coloured. Leaves 
alternate, with short leafy branchlets in their axils, petiolate, 
elongato-ovate, rounded at the base, acute at the apex, serrated, 
penni-nerved, rugulose, pubescent along the nerves above, 
villous beneath with the hairs rufescent, and appressed ; pe- 
tiole terete, villous. Stipules setaceo-subulate. Inflorescence 
terminal, interruptedly racemed ; flowers yellow, in clusters, 
shortly pedicelled. Common peduncle leafless, elongated, 
slightly compressed, villous : pedicels about 2 lines in length, 
villous, furnished at the base with a subulate ciliated bractea. 
Calyx externally villous; segments lineari-subulate, acute. 
Petals 5, about twice the length of the calyx, obovato-oblong, 
entire, shortly clawed. Stamens 5; filaments monadelphous ; 
anthers 2-celled. Ovary ovate, white, sericeo-villous. Styles 5, 
erect : stigmata puberulous. Carpels 5, united into a subglo- 
bose 5-lobed 5-celled capsule, afterwards distinct, externally 
velutino-villous, apiculated, 1-seeded. Seeds solitary, 3-gonal, 
externally to the glass puberulous, black. 
I have no doubt but that this is the R. Jamaicensis of Ber- 
tero, and R. venosa of Swartz. I have changed the specific 
designation to virgultosa, as being more appropriate. The 
flowers are rather showy. It does not appear to be. a very 
common plant. 
4. Riedleia serrata. Serrated Riedleia. 
Leaves ovate sub-cordate irregularly serrated fer- 
rugineo-subtomentoso-hirsute, stipules lanceolato-lin- 
ear generally the length of the petiole, flowers in 
clusters of 3-5 subsessilc arranged along a terminal 
interrupted spike. 
Vent! choix. t. 37 . — De Cand. Prod. I. 492. 
IiAB. Savannahs, St Thomas in the Vale. 
FL. October — December. 
