FLORA OF JAMAICA VOL. IV. DICOTYLEDONS FAMILIES LEGUMINOS-ffi TO CALLIT.RICHACE.ffi FLORA OF JAMAICA CONTAINING DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS KNOWN FROM THE ISLAND BY WILLIAM FAWCETT, B.Sc. * • % FORMERLY ASSISTANT, DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) LATE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC GARDENS AND PLANTATIONS, JAMAICA, AND ALFRED BARTON RENDLE,M.A.,D.Sc.,F.R.S.,F.L.S, KEEPER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY) I .RY ORK At VOL TV vui,. iv. DICOTYLEDONS FAMILIES LEGUMINOS^E TO CALLITRICHACE^ WITH 114 TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON : PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND SOLD By I.<>N,;MANS, GREEN & Co., 39, PATERNOSTER Row, E.G. 4; 15. Or. \RITCH, LTD., 1.1, GRAFTON STREET, NEW BOND STREET, \Y. i; DULAU & Co., LTD., 34-36, MARGARET STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE, W. i; AND AT THE I'.-.rnsii MrsKUM. (NATURAL HISTORY), CROMWELL ROAD, S.\V. 7. 1920 {All rights reserved] PREFACE THE present volume continues the systematic account of the flowering plants of Jamaica* on the same lines as Volume III. There has been some delay in publication owing to conditions prevailing during the last five years. The fact that printing was begun in 1917 will explain the absence of reference, especially in the earlier sheets, to papers which may have appeared subsequently. We are again indebted for the loan of specimens to the Government of Jamaica, and to various institutions and indi- viduals previously mentioned, especially to the Directors of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Edinburgh, the Bristol Museum, and the Naturhistoriska Biks-Museum at Stockholm. A. B. RENDLE. DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY), CROMWELL ROAD, LONDON, S.Yv". February, 1920. WORKS REFERRED TO IN THE TEXT (In addition to those already enumerated in Vol. III.) Ann. Mus. Par. — Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris. 1802-1827. Arch. Mus. Par.— Archives. . .Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris. 1839-61. r f Baill. Etud. Euphorb. — Etude generale . . . des Euphorbiacees, with Atlas. H. E. Baillon. Paris. 1858. Bedd. El. Sylv. — Flora Sylvatica for S. India. B. H. Beddorne. Madras. 1869-73. Benth. Comm. Legum. Gen. — Commentationes de Leguminosarum generibus. G. Bentham. Vienna. 1837. [Also published in Ann. Wien. Mus. II (1840)]. Bentl. & Trim. Med. PI. — Medicinal Plants &c. R. Bentley and H. Trimen. London. 1880. Boiss. Ic. Euphorb. — Icones Euphorbiarum. E. Boissier. Paris. 1866. Bot. Gaz. — Botanical Gazette. Edited by J. M. Coulter. Chicago. 1875->- Burm. Zeyl. — Thesaurus Zeylanicus. J. Burrnannus. Amsterdam. 1737. Cav. Diss. — Monadelphise classis dissertationes decem. A. J. Cavanilles. Madrid. 1785-179U. Chapman. Fl.S.U. St.— Flora of the Southern United States. A. W. Chapman. New York. 1860. DC. Moiiog. Phan. — Monographise Phanerogamorum. Editors, Alphonse and C. de Candolle. Paris. 1878-1896. Endl. Medic. Pfl. — Medicinal-Pflanzen &c. S. L. Endlicher. Vienna. 1842. Flora.— Flora'oder allgemeine botanische Zeitung &c. Kegensburg. 131S->- Fl. Dan. — Icones Plantarum. . .Florae Danicse. G. C. CEder and others. Copenhagen. 1761-1883. Geisel. Grot. Monog. — Crotoms Monograph? am *!te. E. F. Geiseler. Halle. 1807. Goett. Nachr.— Nachrichten von der K. Gesellschaft dor Wissenschaften. Goettingen. 1865-> Guppy Plants &c. W. Indies. — Plants, Seeds and Currents in the West Indies and Azores. H. B. Guppy. London. 1917. Hayne Arzneyk.— Darstelluiig und Beschreibung. . . Arziieykunde &c. F. G. Hayne. Berlin. 1805-46. Vlll FLORA OF JAMAICA Jacq. Fragm. — Fragmcnta botanica figuris coloratis illustrata. N. J. von Jacquin. Vienna. 1800-1809. Jacq. Oxal. — Oxalis Monographia, iconibus illustrata. N. J. von Jacquin. Vienna. 17(.>4. Jussieu Euphorb. Tent. — De Euphorbiacearum generibus. . .tentamen. A. de Jussieu. Paris. 1824. Kunth Mimos. — Mimoses et autres Plautes Legumineuses &c. C. S. . Kunth. Paris. 1819-24. L'Herit. Sert. Angl.— Scutum Anglicum. By L'Heritier. Paris. 1788-92. L. Fl. Zeyl. — Flora Zeylanica &c. C. Linnseus. Amsterdam. 1748. L. Mat. Med. — Materia Medica. Liber I de Plantis &c. C. Linnaeus. Stockholm. 1749. Lodd. Bot. Cab. — Botanical Cabinet &c. C. Loddiges and Sons. London. 1817-33. Mia. PI. Jungh. — Plautee Junghuhnianee. F. A. W. Miquel. Ley den. 1851-55. Miq. Stirp. Surin. Sel. — Stirpes Surinamenses selectae &c. F. A. W. Miquel. Leyden. 1850. (Nat. Verb. Maatsch. Wet. Haarl. VII.) Nees PI. Medic. — Plantse officinales (medicinales) &c. T. F. L. Nees von Essenbeck and others. Diisseldorf. 1828-33. Niedenz. in Arb. Bot. Inst. Braunsb. — Arbeiten Bot. Inst. Lyceum Hosianum, Braunsberg. F. Niedenzu. Byrsonima. 1901. Heter- opterys, 1903. Niedenz. in Ind. Lect. Lye. Brunsberg. — Index Lect. Lyceo R. Hosiano Brunsberg. F. Niedenzu : Byrsonima, 1897 ; Buiichosia, 1898 ; Malpighia, 1899 ; Stigmatophyllum, 1899-1900 ; Banisteria, 1900-01. Poepp. Nov. Gen. & Sp. — Nova Genera ac Species Plantarum, Vols. I and II by Poeppig and Endlicher, Vol. Ill by Poeppig. Leipsic. 1835-1845. Reichb. Ic. Germ. — Icones Florae Germanicse et Helvetica. . .L. and H. G. Reichenbach and others. Leipsic. 1834. Rheede Hort. Mai. — Hortus Indicus Malabaricus &c. H. A. van Rheede. Amsterdam. 1678-1703. Rich. Ess. Fl. Cub. — Essai d'uue Flore de File de Cuba in Histoire. . .de 1'ile de Cuba par R. de la Sagra. A. Richard. Paris. 1845. Rumph. Amboin. — Herbarium Amboinense &c. G. E. Rumphius. Amsterdam. 1741-55. Sauv. Fl. Cub.— Flora Cubana. Revisio Catalog! Griesbachiani &c. By F. A. Sauvalle. [New species described by C. Wright.] [Reprinted from the Anales R. Acad. Cien. Habana" Vol. v (1868)— Vol. ix (1873) with the addition of Indexes.] Scop. Delic. Insub. — Delicise Florae et Faunae Insubricae &c. G. A. Scopoli. Pavia. 1786-88. Stokes. Mat. Med. — Botanical Materia Medica &c. J. Stokes. London. 1812. Thunb. Oxal.— Oxalis &c. C. P. Thunberg. Upsal. 1781. W01JKS REEEKKED TO IX THE TEXT IX Vahl Eclog. Am. — Eclogse Americans &c. M. H. Vahl. Copenhagen. 1796-1807. Vent. Cboix.— Choix de PJantes &c. E. P. Ventenat. Paris. 1803. Vent. Jard. Malm. — Jardin de la Malmaison &c. E. P. Ventenat. Paris. 1803-04. Wall. PL As. liar. — Plants Asiatics Rariores &c. N. Wallich. London. 1830-32. Walt. Fl. Carol.— Flora Caroliniana &c. T. Walter. London. 1788. Watt Conim. Prod. Ind. — Commercial Products of India &c. G. Watt. London. 1908. Watt Diet. Econ. Prod. Ind. — Dictionary of the Economic Products of India. G. Watt. London and Calcutta. 1889-93. Wight Illustr. — Illustrations of Indian Botany &c. K. Wight. Madras. 1840-50. AVils. in Reports Geol. Jam. — Outline of the Flora of Jamaica £c. 18G7. By N. Wilson, in Reports of the Geology of Jamaica, by Sawkins and others. London. 1869. .Zucc. Oxal. — Monographic der Amerikanischeii Oxalis Arten. Zuccarini Munich. 1825. (Denkschr. Akad. Muench. IX.) CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS Page 44, lines I and 4 of Key, for Leaves read Leaflets. „ 77, line 4, before Broivne read Sloane Herb. v. 91, 92 ! ,, 85, „ 3, for 361 read 360, and for 361 (occurring later) read 363. ,, 168, ,, 4, for opposite read alternate. ., 230, ,, 6, after 1791 add (in part), and for L. read Jacq. ,, 239, ,, 5 from bottom, for Triapteris read Triopteris. ,, 245, „ 5 of description of fig., for L. read Jacq. ,, 247, ,, 6, and line 4 from bottom, for L. read Jacq. ,, 303, ,, 7 from bottom, after arborea &c. read Sloane. 307, ,, 2, add Oil Nut. For the convenience of workers a comparative scale showing centimeters and inches is given below. 1 2 345 1 6 7 3 | 9 ,10 ill [III II! ii ! II Ml MM 1 ! Mil MM! 1 II MM I Mi 1 1 ! ! M ! ( 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i M 1 1 M M i MM! M M 1 M 1 Mi 1 1 1 2 3 Pncnes CONSPECTUS OF THE FAMILIES CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME DICOTYLEDONS Steins with open bundles. Leaves net-veined. Floral parts generally in fours or fives, sometimes in threes. Embryo with two cotyledons. FAMILIES LEGUMINOS^ TO EUPHOEBIACE^ (Calyx free from the ovary. Petals distinct) Fam. 39. Leguminosse. Fls. irregular, generally 2-sexual, or regular generally polygamous. Sepals more or less united ; generally 5, imbricate in the irregular flowers, the fifth lowest ; 5 or 4, valvate in the regular flowers. Petals as many as the sepals ; in the irregular flowers the fifth highest — outside in Papilionatse, inmost in Csesalpiniese. Carpel one. Trees, shrubs, or herbs. Leaves alternate, usually compound, generally stipu- late. Fruit a pod, sometimes splitting into 1-xcedeil joiitts, some- dates not splitting open, rarely drupe-like. Endosperm wanting or scanty. Fam. 40. Geraniaeese (Geranium). Fls. 2-sexual, regular. Sepals and petals distinct, imbricate. Stamens 10. Carpels 5> mtited with the axis, produced above into a beak. Herbs. Leaves simple, palmately lobed, opposite, stipulate. IVuit a capsule separating elastically into •") 1 -seeded parts. Fam. 41. Oxalidaeese (Oxalis). Fls. 2-sexual, regular. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, twisted in bud. Stamens 10. < >varv ~> celled ; styles 5. Herb. Lear. .-< dilai<\ alternate, stipulate. Fruit 5-celled, a capsule. Fam. !_!. Linaeese (Linum). Fls. Asexual, regular. Sepals and petals 5, imbricate; petals generally t\\i>tod in bud, fugacious. Stamens 5. Ovary 5-celled. Perennial herl>. Leave* *in/j>lr, alternate. Fruit a capsule, 5-celled. Fam. •!:». Erythroxylacese (Erythroxylon). Fls. 2-sexual, regular. Calyx persistent : .segments f>, imbricate. Petals .">. Stamens 10, united below into a cup. Oi'ari/ 3-ciU<'i>,;l. Shrubs nr trees. Leaves simjile, alternate; oni\ trill/in flir p> tnJc. Fruit n< XI 1 FLORA OF JAMAICA Fam. 44. Zygophyllaeese. Fls. hermaphrodite, regular. Sepals and petals usually 5, imbricate. Stamens 10. Ovary 2— 12-celled : *////<•* uniti-d. Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Lcn <•>.•< abruptly jiiunntr. opposite, stipulate. Fruit compos <1 <>f -2 t<> 1'2 cocci. Fam. 4~>. Rutacese. Fls. hermaphrodite, polygamous, or dioecious, regular (but corolla oblique in Eavenia), parts usually in fours or fives. Sepals and petals usually imbricate. Stamens as many as, or twice as many as, the petals, or numerous. Disk between stamens and ovary. Carpels 4 or 5 (8 in Peltostigma), united into a single 4-5-celled ovary, or free at the base and united in styles or stigmas, or altogether free and 1 -celled. »/ o * o Shrubs or trees, usually gland-dotted and strongly smelling. Leaves usually compound and alternate, without stipules. Fam. 46. Simarubacese. Fls. small, unisexual or polygamous, regular. Calyx 3-5-lobed. Petals 3-5, usually imbricate. Stamens at the base of a disk, as many as, or twice as many as, the petals. Ovary 2-5-lobed, 1-5-celled, or 3-5 free carpels ; Styles 2-5. Shrubs or trees: Leaves simple or compound, alternate, without stipules. Fam. 47. Burseraeese. Fls. ^-sexual, or polygamous, regular. Calyx 3-6-lobed. Petals 3-6, ralvate, deciduous. Disk generally ring-like. Stamens twice as many as the petals. Ovary 2-5-celled ; styles very short. Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple or pinnate with an odd leaflet, alternate, without stipules. Fruit drupaceous. Fam. 48. Meliaeese. Fls. 2-sexual, regular. Calyx 4-5- lobed, imbricate. Petals 4-5, imbricate, convolute, or valvate. Disk various. Filaments united more or less into a tube, or adherent to the columnar disk (Cedrela). Ovary 2-5-celled. Trees or shrubs. Leaves compound, alternate, without stipules. Fruit a capsule or drupe. Fam. 49. Malpighiaeese. Fls. 2-sexual, regular. Calyx 5-cleft, each of 4 lobes usually witlt 2 glands outside. Petals 5, clawed. Stamens 10. Carpels 3, more or less united into a 3-celled ovary, or separate ; styles free (except Bunchosia). Trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, opposite, with or without stipules. Fruit a drupe or a capsule. Fam. 50. Polygalaeese. FJs. 2-sexual, irregular. Sepals 5, imbricate, tlte 2 inner lateral larger, coloured, wing-like. Petals 3, united into a corolla : or 5 (2 reduced to scales). Stamens 8, united into a sheath. Ovary 1-2-celled. Herbs or shrubs. */ Leaves simple, usually alternate, without stipules. Fruit a capsule, winged in Securidaca. CONSPECTUS OF FAMILIK- X1U Fam. -~)1. Euphorbiaeece. Fls. HK/.SV.I-IW/, ///omrr/.-,^ or dioecious, regular «r -dinhtly irregular. Perianth often small, sometimes wanting, sometimes dis>imilar in the male and female flowers, either a calyx only or calyx and corolla. Stamens 1 to indefinite. Ovary usually 3-rcllrd. Trees, shrubs, or hrrlis often ici/li -milky x. Leaves simple, sometimes lobed, rarely \\ilh 3 or more digitate k-allets, or reduced to scales. /V///V usually capsularj *jJ /- ,jni> nts, sometimes not splitting open, \\ith outside fleshy. Fam. Callitriehaeese. Fh. unisexual, without perianth. Male flower, a single stamen ; female, a 4->- filed ovary icitlt '2 style*. Small a<|uatic or terrestrial plants, with simple opposite leaves. KEY TO FAMILIES [The figures refer to the number of the Family.] A. Perianth wanting, or of a single series, the calyx. Flowers 2-sexual 39. Crudia, Prior ia. Flowers 1-sexual. Ovary usually 3-celled 51. Euphorbiaceas. Ovary 4-celled Callitrichacese. B. Perianth of a double series — sepals and petals. Flowers unisexual. Leaves simple. Ovary of four carpels cohering only at the apex... 46. Castela. Ovary 2-3-celled 51 . Euphorbiaceas. Leaves pinnate. Styles sublateral 45. Zanthoxylum. Styles terminal 46. Simarubacese. Flowers polygamous. Carpel one. Fruit a pod (sometimes not opening) 39. Leguminosu'. Carpels more or less free, quite free in fruit. Styles sublateral 45. Zanthoxylum. Styles terminal 46. Picrxna. Carpels united into a single ovary. Ovary 1-celled 45. Amyris. Ovary 3-5-celled. Trunk unbranched. Stamens as many as petals 45. Spatlidia. Trunk branched. Stamens twice as many as petals 47. Burscracess. Flowers 2-sexual. Leaves simple or 1-foliolate. Leaves alternate. Fruit a pod (sometimes not opening, rarely drupe-like) 39. Legum'inosse. Fruit samaroid 50. Securidaca. Fruit a capsule. Flowers regular 42. Linum . Flowers irregular 50. Poly gala. Fruit a drupe 43. Erythroxylon. Fruit baccate 45. Rutacex. Ripe carpels 3-5, surrounded by the calyx 46. Suriana. Leaves opposite. Leaves gland-dotted 45. Ravcnia. Leaves not glandular. Leaves palmately lobed 40. Geranium. Leaves entire, very rarely toothed 49. Ma Ipigliiaccx. KEY TO FAMILI1> XV Leaves compound. Leaves alternate. Fruit a pod (sometimes not opening, rarely drupe-like) 39. Legu m i nosx. Fruit not a pod. Leaves sensitive to light 41. Oxalis. Leaves not sensitive. Filaments free. Flowers 2-sexual. Shrubs or trees. Leaves gland-dotted 45. Rutaccx. Leaves not glandular 47. Protium. Herbs H. Zygophyllad . Flowers 1-sexual 40. Airum iua. Filaments united more or less into a tube, or adherent to the columnar disk 48. Mcliaccx. Leaves opposite. Leaves gland-dotted 45. Rutaccae. Leaves not glandular 44. Zygoplujllac<:;< . NOTE ON DR. PATRICK BROWNE'S Natural History of Jamaica. Dr. Patrick Browne published his " Natural History of Jamaica '' in 1756, three years after the appearance of Linnseu-'- " Species Plantarum." Browne did not adopt the binomial system of Linnaeus, but quoted as synonyms of his own diagnostic names the diagnoses of the " Species Plantarum." In his own copy of the History, now in the library of the Linnean Society, Lmna>us added the binomial as a marginal note. Linnaeus acquired Browne's herbarium in 1758, and ha- underlined in his copy of the " History " the first letter of those species of which there was a specimen in Browne's herbarium. In some instances these specimens were the foundation of species published by Linmeus in the " Systema," edit. 10, 1759, for instance, (..\\ . Endosperm scanty or wanting. Cotyledons generally flat, foliaceous or thick and fleshy ; radicle superior. Species over 12,000 in number, found in e\ery part of tin- world. SUBFAMILY 1. PAPILIONATJE. Flower.-, papilionaceous. Petals imbricate, the uppermost outside. Stamens 9 or 10, united into a sheath, or distinct in ^ 11, 12 — numerous in ^ 12. Leaves simple, digitate or pinnate, KEY TO SECTION-. Leaves simple, or digitate with 1, 3, or 5 leaflet . Flowers racemose or solitary § I. Flowers in heads. Pod enclosed in the withered calyx and corolla § '2. Flowers covered by large bracts ^ '•'. Flt'»iiii>iij 1 . ( /<.'>. iv. r. 2 FLORA OF JAMAICA Leaves pinnate with an odd leaflet. Leaves with 1-3 leaflets. Pod jointed § 4. Pod not jointed. Leaflets with conspicuous stipels §8. Leaflets generally without stipels. Stamens numerous, all distinct. Petal 1 .... § 12. Stamens 10 (or 9), only one sometimes distinct. Leaflets with glandular dots beneath § (J. Leaflets without glandular dots. Trees or shrubs § 10. Dalberg'm . Herbs woody below §3. Indigofera. Leaves with 5 to several leaflets. Pod jointed § 4. ^Escliynomcnc. Pod not jointed. Stamens 10, all distinct. Shrubs or trees §11- Stamens 10 or 9, one only sometimes distinct. Stems twining § 8. Clitoria. Stems not twining. Herbs or shrubs. Stamens 9 in one bundle, one usually distinct §3. Trees or shrubs, branches sometimes twining. Stamens in 1 or 2 bundles, one sometimes more or less distinct § 10. Leaves abruptly pinnate. Leaves with 2 pairs of leaflets. Pod burying itself in the earth § 5. , Leaves with several pairs of leaflets. Leaves with a tendril § 6. Leaves without tendrils. Branches twining §7. Branches not twining § 3. Sesbania. KEY TO GENERA. § 1. Herbs or shrubs (not twining). Leaves simple or digitate, with 3 or 5 leaflets, or reduced to spines. Flowers various. Pod 2-valved, inflated in Crota- laria. Leaves simple, or digitate with 3 or 5 leaflets ... 1. Crotalaria. [Leaves reduced to spines Ulex.~\ §2. Herbs. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate, leaflets denti- culate. Flowers in heads. Pod small, enclosed in the withered calyx and corolla, not opening 2. Trifolium. § 3. Herbs (woody below) or shrubs, not twining, some- times arborescent (in Sesbania). Leaves impari- pinnate (usually 5 or more leaflets) or abruptly pinnate (in Sesbania). Flowers in racemes, axil- lary, terminal, or opposite the leaves. Pod 2-valved, or sometimes scarcely opening (in Sesbania). Racemes axillary. Leaves imparipinnate 3. Indigofera. Leaves abruptly pinnate 5. Sesbania. Racemes terminal and also axillary, or opposite the leaves 4. Tephrosia. [Racemes appearing before the leaves Gliricidia.] Pcvpilionatce LEGUMIXOS^E § 4. Herbs, sometimes shrubby below, not climbing, or small trees. Leaves iniparipinnate, leaflets 1-3, or numerous (in sEschynomcne), or digitately 2-4- foliolate. Pod jointed ; joints 1-seeded, usually separating. Leaves with numerous leaflets 7. ^-Eschynomene. Leaves 1— 3-foliolate with scarcely any common petiole; stipules spinescent. Small trees ... G. Brya. Leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets without stipels. Stipules united to the leaf-stalk 8. Sfylosanthes. Leaves digitate with 2 or 4 leaflets 9. Zornia. Leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets with stipels 10. Dcsmodium. [Leaves with 1 large leaflet; petiole winged D.triqtietrum.] [Leaves with one 2-lobed leaflet Lourea.] [Leaves with 1 leaflet; calyx dry, stiff Alysicarpus.'] [§ 5. Low-growing herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate. Flowers 1 or more, crowded in the lower axils. Pod burying itself in the earth Arachis.'] [§ 6. Climbing herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate ending in a tendril ; leaflets without stipels. Stipules semisagittate. Flowers 1 or 2 together in the axils. Pod 2-valved Vicia.] § 7. Shrubs with twining branches. Leaves abruptly pinnate, with the end of the petiole produced and bristle-like ; leaflets without stipels. Flowers in clusters along axillary and terminal racemes. Pod 2-valved 11. Abnis. § 8. Herbs or shrubs, twining (rarely erect, or prostrate, or trees). Leaves pinnately 3-(5-7-)foliate ; leaflets with stipels. Flowers in axillary racemes, usually 2 or more in clusters along the rhachis, the racemes sometimes reduced to one flower or a few clustered in the axils. Pod 2-valved. Trees. Flowers red 15. Erythrina. Herbs or shrubs. Standard much larger than the other petals and flat. Bracteoles longer than the calyx or nearly as long 12. Ccntroscma. Bracteoles less than half as long as the calyx 13. Clitorw . Standard shorter than the other petals 1C. ^fncnnu. Standard not much larger nor smaller than the other petals. Keel forming a complete spiral 20. Phascolu*. Keel not forming a complete spiral. le hairy along the inner side above. Stigma oblique or lateral 21. Viyna. [Stigma subglobose on inner side of style. Boot tuberous ]'acliyrrliizus.~\ [Stigma small, terminal. Pod rough with warty projections along the margins Dolichos.] u -2 4 FLORA <>F JAMAICA Papilionato vie without haii Calyx; with •! c-ntiiv lu: Pod narrow, linear 17. Pod broad; margins thickened, upper furrowed 18. Calyx with 5 lobes, or 4 with one 2- toothed 14. Teramnus. Calyx 2-lipped, upper large 19. Canavalia. § *J. 1 lerbs or shrubs, erect or twining. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate or digitately 1-3-foliolate ; leaflets with glandular dots beneath, usually without stipeU. Flowers in racemes. Pod 2-valved. Erect undershrubs or shrubs. [Pod marked with oblique depressed lines, 5-seeded Cajanus.'} [Pod short, 2-1-seeded. Bracts large Flemingia.] Twining undershrubs 22. Bhynchosia. § 10. Trees, or shrubs with trailing or twining branches. Leaves imparipinnate with several leaflets, some- times only 3 or 1 ; leaflets without stipels (except rarely in Loncliocarpus and Andira}. Flowers in axillary panicles or racemes, panicles terminal or ^ubterminal in Andira. Pod not opening, mem- branous, leathery, woody, or drupaceous. Leaflets alternate (or solitary). Leaflets 1 or 2-5. Pod with style terminal.... 23. Dalbergia. Leaflets 5-9. Pod with style lateral 24. Pterocarpus. Leaflets opposite. Flowers in axillary racemes. Pod flat, without wings 25. Lonchocarpus. Flowers in axillary panicles, appearing before the leaves. Pod with 4 wings 26. Piscidici. Flowers in terminal panicles. Pod drupaceous 27. Andira. § 11. Shrubs or trees. Leaves imparipiunate ; leaflets in 4-12 pairs, opposite or nearly opposite. Pod 2-valved or not splitting open. Shrub. Leaflets in 5-12 pairs. Pod constricted between the seeds, not opening, 5-9-seeded... 28. Sopliora. Tree. Leaflets in 4-5 pairs. Pod 2-valved, 1-2- seeded 29. Onnosia. § 12. Trees. Leaves reduced to 1 leaflet. Calyx closed before flowering, afterwards bursting into 2-4 irregular segments. Petals one — the standard 30. Sioartzia. SUBFAMILY 2. CMSALPINIE&. Flowers irregular. Calyx imbricate (but subvalvate in Poincifina and Parkinsonia, spathaceous in Bauhinia). Petals imbricate, the uppermost inmost. Stamens usually distinct. Leaves pinnate or bipinnate, or composed of 2 leaflets united into a single 2-lobed leaf in Bauhinia. LEGUMIN* »>.!'. § 13. Leaves abruptly bipirmate (with an odd pinna in Cxsalpinia <-<>ri(tria), or most leaves simply pinn. in H;i'»uito:ri/liti>i. Calyx 5-cleft. Anthers versatile. Calyx-segments very imbrica Tree. One segment of calyx larger, comb-like. Pod not opening, Hat-compressed, thinning to the margin, us it were 2-winged 31. Pcltophorum. Shnibs or small trees. Pod ^-vnlved or not splitting, not winged, margins blunt 32. [Tree. Pod flat, thin, splitting open in the middle of the valves, not at the margin.... Calyx-segments valvate or slightly imbricate. [Leaves with 11-18 pairs of pinnae l'oincin,!ti. [Common petiole of the leaves very short, ^pine-like, pinnae 2-4, very long, with minute distant leaflets l'ii,-lcin*u. Leaves imparipinnate. Petals none. Sta- mens 10 (9,8) 36. Cnidi,i. § 17. Leaves abruptly pinnate ; leaflets in 1 or 2 pairs. Sepals 5, very imbricate. Petals none. Anthers versatile. Ovules 2.. . 37. SUBFAMILY 3. MIMOSEJE. Flowers regular, small. Calyx valvate. 1'dals va.. generally united below the middle. Stamens distind <>r united. Leaves bipinnate (pinnate in Inya). ft £ 1*. Parts of the flower in 5's. Mamens 1(), distinct ; anthers with a small gland, which drops oil' soon after the opening of the flower. Pollen granules numerous, distinct. Climbing >hrub with tendrils. Pods very largo Trees or shrubs not climbing. Flower- in globular heads 30. J'ij- a. ' Flowers in racemes Adenanthera. [Flowers in spikes pis. Herbs prostrate or floating 10. .\<'jifuiiiti. G FLORA OF JAMAICA § 19. Parts of the flower in 5's or 4's. Flowers in globular heads. Stamens as many as, or twice as many as, the petals ; anthers without glands. Pollen granules numerous, distinct. Parts of the flower in 5's. Calyx campanulate. Gland between the lowest pair of pinn?o 41. Desmantlius. Gland in middle of petiole, or just below the pinna?, or wanting 43. Lcncxna. Parts of the flower in 4's. Calyx minute 42. Mimosa. § 20. Parts of the flower in 5's or 4's. Flowers in globular heads, or in spikes (in A. sumo). Stamens indefinite, generally numerous, distinct or slightly united at the base. Pollen granules in 2-6 masses in each cell 44. Acacia. § 21. Parts of the flowers in 5's. Stamens indefinite, sometimes few, united at the base or into a tube. Anthers small. Pollen granules in 2-6 masses in each cell. Leaves bipinnate. Pod strap-shaped, straight or slightly curved ; valves elastically revolute from the apex 45. Calliandra. Pod broadly oblong, straight, thin, continuous within, valves not opening elastically nor twisted 46. Albizzia. Pod curved and twisted spirally, continuous within, splitting open 47. Pithecellobiion. Pod straight or curved, continuous within, tardily opening 48. Zygia. Pod curved or straight, thick, not opening, with partitions between the seeds 49. Enterolobium . Leaves simply abruptly pinnate 50. Inga. SUBFAMILY 1. PAPILIONAT^E. Flowers papilionaceous (that is, like a pea-flower). Sepals normally 5, united into a tubular or carnpanulate calyx. Petals 5, imbricate : the upper — the " standard," exterior ; the 2 lateral -the " wings " ; the 2 lower interior and generally parallel and united — the "keel." Stamens generally 10 (numerous in Swartzia) ; filaments united into a sheath enclosing the pistil, the uppermost often more or less free or sometimes wanting (all distinct in §§11 and 12) ; anthers all alike, or sometimes the alternate different. Radicle inflexed, accumbent on the coty- ledons. Leaves digitately or pinnately compound, or sometimes simple. § 1. Herbs or shrubs (not twining). Leaves simple or digitately 3-5-foliolate, or reduced to spines. Flowers in racemes terminal or opposite the leaves, or solitary or shortly racemose in the axils. Stamens 10, all united into a sheath. Anthers alternately small, versatile, and long, basifixed. Pod 2-valved, inflated in Orotalaria. Crotalaria LEGUMINOS.S; 1. CROTALARIA L. Herbs or shrubs. Leaves simple or digitately 3-5-foliolate. Flowers yellow, but blue in C. verrucosa, in racemes terminal or opposite the leaves, axillary in C. laii i'«li«. Standard roundish ; keel beaked. Staminal sheath split above. Rattle-wort. Species about 450, widely dispersed through the warmer regions of the whole world. Fi". 1.— Crotalaria striata DC. A, Raceme and leaves x H. B, Flower, nat. size. C, Wing x 2. D, Flower with corolla removed x -. E, Seed x 5. (Altered from Reichenbach.) 1 . Leaves simple. Stipules (when present) not decurrent. Erect herbs or shrubs. Pods hairy. Stipules foliaceous, lunate. Flowers blue ... 1. C. Stipules minute or wanting. [Leaves linear or oblong-linear, 4-10 cm. 1. C.jnncea.] [Leaves lanceolate-linear, 10-30 cm. 1 C. tctragona.} [Leaves oblanceolate or lanceolate, (i-8 cm. 1. Flowers paniculate C.fnlcu. Pods glabrous. Stipules very small or wanting. 1'rioU a\\l- shaped -2. C. ret/i.^n. [Stipules ^-sagittate. Bracts ovate, foliaceous ( '. s,ricea.] ^Diffuse herb, not more than 1 ft. high, with small leaves and pods C. nor FLOKA OF JAMAICA Crotalnria Stipul. lit. Free apex of stipules acute 3. ' "talis. Free apex sometimes ui'tu-c 4.' C. j>tcrocauln. $ -. Loaves 3-foliolate. Peduncles 1- or few-flowered, axillary 5. C. lotifolia. 1 1 a c ernes 5- or many-flowered, opposite a leaf or terminal. Pod hairy. Pod 1-1-5 cm. 1 r>. C. pumila. Pod 3 cm. 1 7. C. incana. Pod glabrous S. C. striata. § 3. Leaves 5-foliolate C. quinq uefolia.'] § 1. Leaves simple. *Stipules wlien present, not decurrent. 1. C. verrueosa L. Sp. PL 715 (1753); leaves ovate or roundish-elliptical ; stipules foliaceous ; flowers blue ; pods pubescent with adpressed down. Hot. Mag. t. 3034 ; 3Iacf. Jam. /. 238; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ltd. 178; Bak. in Hook. f. 'FL Br. In'1. !i. 77. Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb. Mus. Brit. Fls. throughout the year ; common, Macfadyen \ Liguanea, McNab ! fsauel J.P. 962, Morris I Miss Foster I near Kingston, 500 ft., Clutel also Uothrock ; Billy Dun, 500 ft., Campbell \ Long Mt. road, Faivcett ! Watson's Hill, Manchester, 800ft.; near Troy, 2000 ft.; Harris I Fl. Jam. 5833,6381, — 14, Port Royal, Lucea, Hitchcock. — Tropics. Annual, scarcely shrubby, 2-3 ft. high, puberulous, glabrescent, branches and peduncles 4-3-angled. Leaves 7-3 cm. L, 5-2 cm. br. ; stipules lunate, deflexed. Racemes many-flowered. Calyx 2-lipped, half as long as the corolla, 7-10 rnm. L, glabrescent ; segments narrowly triangular, acuminate. Pod oblong, 3-3 '5 cm. 1., brown. This species and others have been used as green dressings. [C. juneea L. Sp. PL 714 (1753) ; leaves linear or oblong- linear, 4-10 cm. 1. ; stipules minute, setaceous, or wanting; pods ptibescent-tomentose. — Bot. Mag. t. 490 ; Bak. torn. cit. 79 ; Grixeb. op. cit. 179 ; Wil*. in Reports Geoloy. Jam. 276 ; Watt Diet. Econ. Prod. Ind. ii. 595. Type in Herb. Linn. Fls. in autumn ; Barbican, Liguanea Plain, McNab ! Wilson; March I near Camp, 280 ft., Campbelll King's House grounds; Halfway Tree ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6111, 6905, 8274, 11,856; Constant Spring, Hitchcock.— Tropics of the Old World. Annual, shrubby, to 10 ft. high, branching, silky-puberulous. Leaves silky-pubescent chiefly beneath, about -5 cm. br. Haccmes long, with many flowers. Calyx 5-partite, nearly as long as the corolla, about 1-5 cm. 1., segments lanceolate-linear. Pod oblong, about 3 cm. 1. The plant yields the Sunn or San hemp of commerce, and is cultivated for this purpose in the tropics of the Old World. It is used in the manu- facture of ropes, fishing nets, saddles for pack horses, hose pipes, etc. It has considerable tensile strength, and, like European hemp, its tendency to rot under water seems to be very slight.] Crotalirlu l.K< -L'MIXOS.K - [C. tetrag-ona Buxb. Fl. !,/>/. id iT,;', (1832); leaves lanceolate-linear, acuminate, 1-3 dm. 1. ; stipules miiiir setaceous, or wanting ; ]mds tomentose-pubescent. — Gri*' l>. «i>. <->L 179 ; Wils. lor. cit. ; Jin/,: torn. cit. 78. St. Andrew-, Prior; ("1 onion Town, Roberts \ Silver Hill, llo v;s ! l-'l. Jam. 5597. India to Java. tihnih, to 6 ft. high, brandies acutely tetragonal, when young pu: cent. Leaves strigose-pubescenl on both or glabrescent. Racemes laxly 6-10-flowered, 1-5 dm. 1. or more. Bracts minute, linear. / lemon-yellow. Calyx 2-lipped, segments very long, linear-lanceo: densely brown-velvety, 2 cm. 1. or more. Corol uewhat longer than the calyx. Pod oblong, dark brown, ?>• •'• 5 cm. 1. [C. fulva Boxb. FL L«L Hi. 266 (1832) ; leaves oblnii--l,- late to oblanceolate (rarely elliptical), 6-8 '5 cm. 1.; stipules wanting, or minute, setaceous; flowers paniculate; pods thinly silky, enclosed within the calyx. — Gr'twl). <>p. <-it. 17'.': IT//.--. lor. cit. : Jitik. tinn. r',1. 80. Bancroft*. St. Mary, McNeil ! Wilson ! Short-wood, 500 ft., Campi • \ Hope Mines, 800 ft. ; Hope Paver course, 600-700 ft. ; Harris \ Fl. Jam. 6243, 6825, 6943, 9037.— E. Indies to Sumatra, naturalized in Seychelles and Mauritius. Shrub 3-8 ft. 'high ; branches cylindrical, den-ely clothed with short brown silky hairs. Leaves closely silky, 2-3 cm. br. Racemes compound, in a terminal panicle. Bracts and bracteoles elliptical, cuspidate. Flo;- fragrant. Cali/.r 5-partite, sericeous on the outside, 1-1-3 cm. 1. ; seg- ments ovate, blunt. Pod globose-ellipsoidal, 2-seedeJ. 2. C. retusa L. Sp. PL 715 (1753); leaves oblanceolate to oblanceolate-oblong, apex retuse or rounded ; stipules very small. awl-shaped or wanting; bracts awl-shaped; pods glabrous. Bot. M«p. dt. 172 : ir//x. loc. rif.; J'xif,-. torn. cit. 75 : Url>. .%////». Ant. iv. 281. Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. Fls. in autumn ; common : Ifcicfadycn ; Dixtin ! >t. Mary, Ih JV ! J.P. 615, 963, A/i«/-m! King's House ground-, (.'umpbcll'. I'-utt Bay; Annotto Bay ; Thompson ! Hope grounds, Harris I St. George, \Vatt ! .Uz.s-.s Fustier ! Gordon Town, ]',,iU ! Kingston, I ' - ; I'ort Antonio, Mill.^iiifih. Fl. -Jam. 5709, 647-1, '.784, 791 7.— Tropical and subtropical regi<- Annual, slirnhby, 1-3 ft. high, silky-puberulou- or ulal>rate. glabrous on upper surface, tornentellous beneath, pellucid-dotted. .a. 1. land morel. L-2'5 (3'5) cm. br. /: many-flowered, long. J showy. ( J-lipfe ~2 em. 1. /'.'. Joe. clt. ; TlV/x. Inc. <•'»(. • Bed-. !<><•. <•/'/. C. Ketzii HitrJtr. in i;t. 1, 10, /. 2; Gri*i'l>. <>j>. cit. 17* (excl. syn.). "Hollis's savanna, St. Ann \ Clarendon," Purdic ! — Trinidad, Panama, tropical South America. Shrubby, -2 ft. high, the whole plant covered with brownish-yellow adpressed hairs. Leave* linear-lanceolate, densely hairy 011 both sides, - -I (-8) cm. 1. ; ^tipuli-s variable, sonic at least obtuse, others toothlike or lanceolate, /.'/uvwi'.s few-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, 5 mm. 1. ; bracteoles lanceolate, 3'5-4 mm. 1. Cali/.r 11-12 mm. 1. Xt'ii'. PI. 715 (1753) (by error latifoli., > : leaflets narrowly elliptical ; peduncles 1- or few-flowered, axillarv, short ; calyx about 8 inm. 1., exceeded by the corolla ; pods puberulous. — Ma<\f. Jam. i. 240 : Griseb. op. cit. 180; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 281. C. trifolia fruticosa foliis glabris &c. Sloan < Gat. 141 & Hint. ii. 33. C. loti folio &c. Dill Eltlt. 121, t. 102, /. 121. Type in Herb. MILS. Brit. Between the Town Savanna and Two Mile Wood, Sloane Herb. vi. 5 ! Shakspear \ Massonl Mac fad yen I Great Valley, Manchester, Purdir ! Great Goat Is., Harris \ Fl. Jam. 9323. — Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Cruz. Shrubby, to 6 ft. high; branches tornentellous. Leaflets 5 cm. 1., petioles and under surface silky pubescent; stipules minute. />/.r o-partite, pubescent. Pod obovoid-oblong, apex truncate, about 2 cm. 1. 6. C. pumila Ortey. Hort. Natr. 23 (1800) ; leaflets oblanceo- late or narrowly oblanceolate-oblong, 1-2 '5 cm. 1. ; calyx ."> mm. L, corolla twice as long; pod puberulous, 1-1*5 cm. 1. -Griseb. oj_>. cit. 170 ; Hemsl BioL Centr. Amrr. Bot. i. '2'27 . C. lupulina H. B. <(• K. Nov. Gen. d: Sj>. vi. 4U2, /. 500 (18*24). C. litoralis H. B. A K. tun,, cit. 401 (1824). St. Ann, MrXnh ! Man-li ! St. Ann's Bay, Prim- ! also Harris ! Fl. Jam. 10,368. — Florida and Keys, Bahamas, Cuba, St. Kitts, Antigua, St. Vincent, . \rizona, New Mexico, Texas, Mexico, Venezuela. Perennial, to 3 ft. ; branches diffuse or decumbent, pubescent or glabrate. Leaflets puberulous beneath ; stipules setaceous, deciduou.-. /;y the corolla; pods pilose with sjn-radini;- hairs. Mar/. Jam. i. 242 j (;,•;*<•!,. op. tit. 180: Urb. torn. cit. 281. C. trifolia fruticosa foliis rotundis ^c. Slmmc <'rit. from Hort. Cliir. ,v Sloane. Common, Slddiir Herb. vi. (i ! Hnrlunn and I.un<- in I Icrb. Sloane clxii, 7/i'>i ; Distin ! St. Mary, ORA OF JAMAICA Crotdlwria rch\ Prior! J.P. 875 .l/o/r/.s ! Arcadia, .!/»•. Sari-ll] Chester Yale, J Fan-is \ Barbican, Li^uanea plain, 450 ft., Cam]>bcll\ Providence. Too ft., Thontjistm ! Fl. Jam. 5930, -055A ; Bog \Valk, Port Morant, Lucea, JTitcltcack ; Porn-. Lloi/d. — Tropical and subtropical regions. Annual, 2-4 ft. high, shrubby, erect, pubescent. Leaflets pubescent h or glabrescent, 2-3-5(-5) cm. 1. ; stipules setaceous, deciduou>. Moicers greenish-yellow, 10-12 mm. 1. Calyx 5-cleft, pubescent. J'ufl oblong, pendulous, about 3 cm. 1. 8. C. striata DC. Pi-odr. //. 131 (1825); leaflets elliptical, 3-9'5(-12) cm. 1.; calyx-segments lanceolate, 4-4 '5 mm. 1., olla more than twice as long as the calyx : pod glabrous, about 4 cm. 1. — Bot. Mag. t. 3200; Macf. Jam. !. 241; Griseb. «•//. 180 ; Bak. torn. cit. 84. 1 C. mucronata Desv. Journ. Bot. 1814, 76. C. Brownei Bert, ex DC. Prodr. ii. 130 (1825); Reirltenl). I< . E.rot. t. 232. C. Hookeri Am. in Ami. Sc. Nat. . 2, ///. 248 (1835). C. striata var. acutifolia Trim. Cat. Ccijl. PI. 22 (1885). (Fig. 1.) .Common; in fl. Oct.-Dec. ; Macfadyen ; St. Mary, McXab ! St. George's Gap, 1'urdicl Parnell\ Wullsclilaegel ; March \ Prior; Gordon Town, Ball ! Hope River, 1200 ft., Eggers ! Cinchona, 5000 ft., J.P. 1174, Morris 1 Johnsonl Castleton road, 600 ft., Thompson] Fl. Jam. 8093, Blue Mt. Peak ; Lucea ; Hitchcock. — Tropics. Shrubby, to 4 ft. high, erect, puberulous. Leaflets, apex mucronulate, acute, rounded or retuse, cuneate at base, puberulous or glabrate beneath ; stipules wanting. Racemes sometimes as long as 3 dm., many-flowered. Flowers about 1*5 cm. 1. Calyx 5-fid, 2-lipped. Corolla : standard 1 cm. 1. ; wings oblong, acute (or obtuse), blade about 1 cm. 1. ; keel 1*5 cm. 1., with a rounded knee in the middle. Pod cylindrical. £ '^. Leaves 5-foliolate. [C. quinquefolia L. Sp. PI 716 (1753).— Gnseb. Joe. cit.; ir/'/x. loc. cit. ; Bale. torn. /<;' Jl/urm ! Catherine's Peak, 4000 ft., Kyycr* ! — This species is found not only in western Europe, where it is considered truly native, but also in X. America, Mexico, Chili, Can-ai- ls., Nilgiri Mts., India, Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, in which countries it is looked upon as an introduction.] ? '1. Herbs. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate, leaflets denticulate. Flowers in heads axillary. Stamens 10, uppermost usually free, the rest united into a sheath. Pod small, enclosed in the withered calyx and corolla, not opening 2. TRIFOLIUM L. Species 300, numerous in temperate and subtropical regions of the northern hemisphere, a few in the mountains of tropical America, in temperate S. America, and in Africa. Flowers white in large heads T. repens. [Flowers yellow in small heads T. (Indium.] T. repens L. Sp. PL 767 (1753); stem creeping; now* white (sometimes pinkish) in large heads.- — M.) Type in Herb. Linn. A, Portion of plant X -. B, Flower x -'. I'- (', I'm! rii\dci|inl iu the ami i-dnilla X -. D, 1'inl \\\\\\ our ValVr • X '_'. Dutch (.> r White Clover.1 Common in mountains, Murfn . i •:-. E spent ! Blue Mt. Peak, Hitchcock. — N. America, naturalized from Europe. Annual, stem slender. Leaflets obovato, emarginate, serrulate, the middle leaflet stalked, 4-7 mm. 1. Flowers yellow, about 12 in close heads. Standard truncate, covering the pod.] § 3. Herbs (woody below) or shrubs, not twining, sometimes arborescent (in Sesbanid). Leaves imparipinnate or abruptly pinnate (in Sesbania), petiole not bearing a tendril, leaflets entire. Flowers in racemes, axillary, terminal, or opposite the leaves. Stamens 10, the upper- most free, or more or less free, the rest united into a sheath, split above. Pod 2-valved, or sometimes scarcely opening (in Sesbania). 3. INDIGOFERA L. Shrubby herbs or shrubs ; hairs often attached by the middle. Leaves imparipinnate (in Jamaican species), sometimes with 1 or 2 leaflets only in I. lespedezioides. Flowers in racemes, axillary (in Jamaican species), variegated-purplish. Calyx 5-cleft. Standard roundish, often persistent ; keel usually with a spur 011 each side. Uppermost stamen free, the rest united into a slender- persistent sheath ; anthers apiculate. Pod narrow, cylindrical, 4-angled or flat-compressed, with partitions between the seeds. Species 350, dispersed through the warmer regions of the world, most numerous in southern and tropical Africa. Pod straight or only slightly curved, with 8-15 seeds. Leaflets in 4-6 pairs, oblong-obovate to rouiidish- obovate. Racemes shorter than the leaf 1. J. tinctoria. Leaflets in 2-3 pairs, elliptical. Racemes longer than the leaf 3. I. subulata. Leaflets 1 or 2 or in 1-4 pairs, cuneate-oblong. Racemes as long as or longer than the leaf 4. I. lespedezioides. Pod sickle-shaped, with 3-6 seeds 2. I. suffruticosa. 1. I. tinetoria L. Sp. PL 751 (1753); leaflets in 4-6 pairs, oblong-obovate to roundish-obovate, apex rounded, mucronulate, glabrous on the upper surface, strigillose beneath ; racemes shorter than the leaf ; pods slightly curved or straight, with 8-12 seeds.— Wright Mem. 293 (? I. suffruticosa) ; DC. Prodr. ii. 224 (excl. ft) • Macf. Jam. i. 245 ; Bentl. & Trim. Med. PL t. 72 ; Indlgofera LEGUMIXOS/E 15 Praia mid BaJc. f. in Journ. Hot. xl. 03. Colutese affiuis fruticosa, tloribus spicatis pnrpurascentibus, siliquis incurvis, e cujus tinctura Indigo conficitur Slotine Cat. 141 & Hist. '//. 34, t. 179, /. 2 (pod thicker than specimen) & 170, f. .">. Indigofera decom- 1'osita &c. Brou-ne Hist. J0i'. Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb. Mus. Brit. Indigo. Sloa)ic Herb. vi. 7 (omitting ripe jtods) & S (2 specimens) ! Broughtoul Macfadycnl Me Nab I Lane I March I Prior; Gordon Town, Ball ! near Kingston, 500 ft., Clutel also Hitchcock; Linie Cay; Norbrook, GOO ft.; Campbell \ Alligator Pond; Hope; Harris I Fl. Jam. 57:7, 0265, 8215, •^229. — Cultivated formerly throughout the tropics. Fig. 3. — Iii
  • j ra tinctoria L. A. Raceme and leaf x li- F, Ovary ami calyx cut leogthwise x 7. M. Standard x 6. G, Ripe pods x -. 1 Wing x j>I. Hi. 100 (1813); leaflets in 2-3(-l) pairs, elliptical, apex rounded or obtuse, strigose OIL both sides; racemes longer than the leaf with long peduncle; pods straight or only slightly curved, with 10-10 seeds. — DC. Prodr. ii. 223; Jlnl:. in Jfunk. f. Fl. Br. Lnl. //'. '.if, ; (!,•:.<,•!,. Inc. <•//. I. mucronata /• Clutcl Gordon Town, Ball ! Guava Ridge, 2000 ft., Eggers\ Hope, Harris ! Golden Spring, 800 ft., Thompson ! Constant Spring ; Port Morant ; Hitchcock ! Porus, Lloyd \ Fl. Jam. 6852, 8066. — Tropical and subtropical regions. Shrubby, stem and branches white-strigose. Leaflets 2-4 cm. 1., 1-1-8 cm. br. ; stipules long, filiform, acuminate, about 6 mm. 1. 1!< ir^mes 1-1-5 dm. 1., sometimes to nearly 3 dm. 1. Calyx 5-partite, 2 -5-3 mm. 1. ; segments lanceolate, acuminate, subequal. Corolla : standard roundish- rhomboidal, vermilion-coloured on the inside, pale outside with a green nerve, 4*5 mm. 1., 4 mm. br. ; wings oblong, apex broader, rounded, ciliolate at apex, as long as the standard ; keel as long as the standard, white, upper edge tinged with red, and ciliate. Pod linear-cylindrical, not torulose, thickened especially along the dorsal margin, reflexed, strigillose, 2 -5-4 -5 cm. 1. Seeds 2 mm. 1., linear, 4-angled, with a depression at scar of attachment. 4. I. lespedeziodes H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. vi. 407 (1824); leaflets variable in size and number, 1 or 2, or with simple leaves only below and 1 to 4 pairs above, oblong and slightly tapering to the base, apex obtuse, mucronulate or emarginate-retuse, strigose on both sides ; racemes about as long as the leaf or longer, with several flowers; pod straight, with about 10 seeds. -DC. torn. ,-it. 226; Benth. in FL Bras, xv.pt. 1, 39 /. 5. Liguanea Ridge, St. Andrew, 1000 ft.; on land recently burnt ov'-r Lititz Savanna, 300-900 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 11,745, 12,204.— Tropical. - America. Shrubby, 2-3 ft. high ; young branches slightly angled, slightly strigillose or glabrate. Leaflets, 3-1 cm. 1., 7-5 (-2) mm. br. ; stipules lanceolate- setaceous, about 2-5 mm. 1. Calyx 5-fid, tube about 1 mm. 1. ; segments triangular-acuminate, 1'3 mm. 1. Corolla reddish, standard roundish, reflexed, about 5 mm. 1. ; wings obliquely oblanceolate, a little shorter than the keel; keel about as long as the standard, with spur?-, about the middle. Pod linear-cylindrical, not torulose, slightly thickened alon- each margin, reflexed, strigillose or glabrescent, 2 -5-3 cm. 1. Various species of Indigo f era have been successfully used as cover crops, protecting the soil from wash on sloping ground. Macfadyen states (Flor. Jam. i. 244) that I. anjcntca L. ''was formerly a common weed in the Botanic Garden at Bath." We have not seen specimens from Jamaica. 4. TEPHROSIA Per*. Shrubby herbs or shrubs. Leaflets nunu-rous, with parallel oblique nerves, underneath often silky. Flowers in clusters of 2-6 arranged in racemes terminal or opposite the leaves, or in iv. c 18 FLORA OF .JAMAK A Teplirosia uppi-r -ixils, often leafy at the base. rppermost stamen more or loss free. Pod compressed, beaked with the persistent style. Species 1:20, widely spread through the warmer regions of the world, numerous in South Africa and Australia, a few in North America. Leaflets in 12-20 pairs ; pod 4-5-7 cm. 1 1. T. toxicaria. [Leaflets in 9-12 pairs; pod 8-10 cm. 1 T. Candida.] Leaflets not more than 10 pairs ; pod not more than 5 cm. 1. Pod about 5 cm. 1. [Pod glabrous (except on margins) T. grand i flora.] [Pod villose T. noctiflora.} ' Pod with minute adpressed hairs, 8-10-seeded 4. T. cinerea. Pod 3-4 cm. 1., glabrous or puberulous, 5-6-seeded. Calyx 3-3-5 mm. 1. ; teeth as long as the tube 2. T. purpurca. Calyx 4-5-5 mm. 1. ; teeth nearly twice as long as the tube . 3. T. Wallicliii. Flowers less than 2 cm. 1. Flowers more than 1 cm. 1 1. T. toxicaria. Flowers not more than 1 cm. 1. Calyx with minute adpressed hairs. Calyx 3-3*5 mm. 1. ; teeth as long as the tube.... 2. T. purpurea. Calyx 4 '5-5 mm. 1. ; teeth nearly twice as long as the tube 3. T. Wallicliii. Calyx with long white hairs, 4-5-6 mm. 1 4. T. cinerea. [Calyx with long reddish-yellow hairs, 3-4 mm. 1.. . . T. noctiflora.} Flowers 2 cm. 1. or more. » [Leaflets 1-2 cm. 1 T. grandiflora.} Leaflets 3-5 cm. 1 T. Candida.} 1. T. toxicaria Pers. Syn. it. 329 (1807) ; leaflets in 12-20 pairs, 2 • 5-7 cm. 1. ; racemes terminal and axillary ; flowers more than 1 cm. 1. ; pod 4*5-7 cm. 1. — Tussac FL Ant. i. t. 20 ; Benth. in FL Bras, xv.pt. 1, 46, t. 8 : Macf. Jam. i. 255; Griseb. FL Br. W. Ind. 182. Cracca leguminibus strictis Plum. PL Amer. (Burm.) t. 135. Galega toxicaria, Sw. Prodr. 108 (1788) & FL Ind. Occ. 1278. Cytisus1? fruticosus erectus et villosus &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 296. (Fig. 4.) Surinam Poison. Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 85 ! " Cultivated, rarely wild," Macfadyen ; Brandon Hill, 1000 ft. (fls. white) Thompson ! Mavis Bank (colt.). Fl. Jam. 8045. — West Indies, tropical continental America. Shrubby, 2-5 ft. high ; branches velvety. Leaves 1-2 dm. 1., leaflets narrowly oblong, shortly stalked, silky-pubescent, especially beneath, stipules awl-shaped. Flowers white with a purplish tinge, in clusters of 4-6 in many-flowered racemes, 1-3 dm. 1. Calyx silky, about * 5 cm. 1. ; segments ovate. Corolla : standard silky outside, roundish, clawed, 1 * 2 cm. 1. (or more) ; wings and keel about as long as standard. Pod silky- pubescent. Browne (loc. cit.) states : " This plant has been introduced to Jamaica from the main, and is now cultivated in many parts of the island, on Tt'phrosin LEGUMINOS.i: 1'.' account of its intoxicating qualities.. . .Tin.- leaves and branches being well pounded, and thrown into any river, pond, or creek, are observed to infect the waters very soon ; by which all the fish are immediately intoxicated, and rise and float upon the surface, as if they were dead ; from whence they are easily taken. But most of tin- lar-e ones that are left, recover from this trance after a short time, though the greatest part of the small fry perish on those occa-ion-." Fig. 4. — TephroKia toxicaria Pers. \. Upper portion of leaf x -;. B, Upper portion of raceme x L C, Flower with corolla removed X 2. D, Standard flattened x •!!. E, Wing X . F, Keel x i:." G, Pod x n. (After Fl. Bra?.) '2. T. purpurea Pc.rs. Syn. ii. 329 (1807) ; ascending ; leaflets in 6-10 pairs ; calyx 3-3 '5 mm. L, teeth as IOMLT as tin- tube, acuminate; blade of standard elliptical-roundish, broader than long, 6 mm. 1., 7*3 mm. br. ; claw cuneate, '2 nun. 1. ; pod t>-seeded '•">•">-), 3-1 cm. L, glabrous or .-trigilioM'. -liol-. in Hool-.f. Fl. Ur. In<1. ii. 112; J&obinson in 1l»t . (in::, xxviii. -01. T. leptostac-liya DC. Prodr. ii. 251 : B,-,itli. torn. cit. is : fir,'*.-!,. lor. <-it. T. .-isrcndens Macf. Jam. /. L'^7 (ls;!7). Cracca pur- purea L. Sj>. /'/. T52 (17."):5). Galena ])ur}>uresi L. Sp. PI. /•//. •_'. 10n."» (17G.'5). Coronilla xcvlanica herbacea A-C. llurm. Zcijl. 77. /. 32. Ci'acca leguminibus strictis adscendentibus glabris race mosis ttc. L. FL Zcyl. IK'. Tyi'<- in Herb. Hermann in H. s. Brit. Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. s;1, ! ]ldustoun\ Shdk9pear\ Mm-fath/cii ! Clermont, St. David, McXnb ! Hope River Mouth ; Liguanea Ridge, • 2 20 FLORA OF JAMAICA TepJiroaia Andrew, 1000 ft.; Harris \ Fl. Jam. 9385, 12,205.— Tropical and subtropical region^. Somewhat shrubby, rising to 1 or 2 ft. high, branches glabrous or adpivssed pubescent, angular. Lirtj!<>fs linear-oblong to narrowly oblanceo- late, glabrescent on the upper surface, glaucous, obscurely silky with minute white hairs beneath, 1-2 cm. 1., 2-5 mm. br. ; stipules 4-7 mm. 1., lauceolate-awl-shaped. Flowers pale purplish or white, or crimson, solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3 in racemes, which are opposite to a leaf, lax-flowered, to 1 dm. 1. Calyx with minute adpressed hairs. Corolla: standard silky outside; wings, blade oblong, about 5 mm. 1., claw about 2 -5 mm. 1. ; keel about as long as wings. Style glabrous; stigma with very short hairs. This species has been used for green dressing. 3. T. Walliehii Grali«m /// Wall. C«t. u. 5640 (nomen) ; Fawc. ((• Hcndla in Journ. Bot. Iv. 35 (1917); leaflets in 5-9 pairs; calyx 4 '5-5 mm. 1., teeth nearly twice as long as the tube ; blade of standard elliptical-roundish, broader than long, 6 mm. 1., 8 mm. br., claw cuneate, 2 mm. 1. ; pod 5-6 seeded, 3— 3'5 cm. 1., puberulous or glabrous. Type in Herb. Wallich in Herb. Kew. Brongliton \ Palisadoes, Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6753. — Dominica, Trinidad, Guiana, India. Somewhat shrubby ; branches glabrous or pubescent, at length terete. Leaflets cuneate-oblong, green, glabrescent on the upper surface, glaucous and obscurely silky with minute white hairs beneath, l'5-2'5 cm. 1., •5-1 '5 cm. br.; stipules 5-7 mm. 1., linear-lanceolate. Flowers crimson or white, solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3 in racemes, which are opposite to a leaf, lax -flowered, to 1 dm. 1. Calyx with minute adpressed hairs; segments setaceous. Corolla : standard silky outside ; wings, blade oblong, about 5 mm. 1., claw about 1-5 mm. 1. ; keel, apex close to apex of wings. Style glabrous ; stigma with very short hairs. 4. T. einerea Pers. Syn. ii. 328 (1807); more or less pro- cumbent; leaflets in 3-5 (6) pairs; calyx 4*5-6 mm. 1., teeth as long as the tube to half as long again ; blade of standard roundish, rhomboid-roundish, or ovate-roundish, 8 '5-9 mm. 1., 9 mm. br., claw 2 '5 mm. 1. ; pod generally 8-10-seeded, 4-5 cm. 1., with minute white adpressed hairs. — Be nth. torn. cit. 48 ; Griseb. Joe. cit. ; Url). Symb. Ant. iv. 283. T. procumbens Macf. Jam. L 256. Galega einerea L. Syst. ed. 10, 1172 (1759) & Amoen. v. 403 ; Jacq. Ic. PI. Bar. t. 575. Galega herbacea &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 289. Type in Herb. Linn. Wright \ Brougliton ! Shakspear ! Macfadyen \ Distin ! St. Andrew, McNab \ Constant Spring, 1000 ft. ; Palisadoes ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6033, 6752. — West Indies, tropical and subtropical America. Somewhat shrubby ; branches 1 ft. or more long, at length terete, white- pubescent with adpressed or spreading hairs. Leaflets oblanceolate-oblong, glabrescent or with minute adpressed hairs on the upper surface, silky- pubescent and ash-coloured beneath, 1-3-3 cm. 1. (or more in var.), 3-5 mm. br. (or more in var.) ; stipules white-pubescent, lanceolate, 5-6 mm. 1. Flowers showy, rose-coloured, solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3 in racemes, which are opposite a leaf, and to 1-5 dm. 1. Calyx silky with long white hairs. Standard silky outside ; wings, blade 9 mm. 1., 4 mm. br., claw 2-2 mm. 1. ; keel, claw about 1 cm. 1. Style glabrous; stigma long-ciliate. '1't'lihrosin L!X;r.MixO I'l Var. littoralis />V /-li' mm. br.—Griseb. !<><•. cit. T. littoralis Pry,'. >'////. if. :5i"J (1807). Vicia littoralis J'/.-y. X,7. #/<>/>• - 1 /"'•/•• 206, /.' li'l- (17G3). Galena littoralis L. Su*i. ed. 12, 497 (1767) ; Jocg. ,sW. ,s'//V^. 4roer. ed. ptc*. /. 192(1780?). .racquin's original specimen from which t. 124 and the coloured 1. I'.IL' were drawn, is in Herb. Mus. Brit. iracfadijen ! Kind's House grounds, COO ft., Harris'. Fl. Jam. 695G. — Colombia, Guiana, Brazil. [T. Candida DC. Prodr. ii. 249 (1825) ; lealleis in 9-12 pairs, 3-5 cm. 1. ; flowers 2-2 '5 cm. 1. ; pods 8-10 cm. 1. — B. Afr. ii. 112 (1871) : leaflets in 6-9 pairs, narrowly oblanceolate, apex rounded or einarginate, mucronate, 2 • 5-4 • 5 cm. 1., 5-8 mm. br. ; stipules filiform, villose, 6-9 mm. 1. ; calyx pubescent with long reddish- yellow hairs ; tube 2 mm. L, the lower tooth lanceolate, equalling the tube, the others shorter and deltoid ; pod 8-9-seeded, ( -•"> cm. L, 5-6 mm. br., densely clothed with fine brown silky hairs, slightly curved upwards. Naturalized; Brandon Hill, 1000 ft., Thompson ! Asylum grounds, near Kingston, Plaxton \ also Fawcctt ! King's House grounds, GOO ft.. /. Kl. Jam. 6952, 8054.— Africa. Spreading shrubby plant, 4-G ft. high, densely clothed with short brown pubescence. Leaves 8-13 cm. 1.; petiole pubescent; leailrH glabrous on upper surface, silky and grey beneath with adpressed hairs. 7-7<>//-/r.s white, stuii'l.inl ,t<'d with purple, in small remote clusters in a raceme which is op; k leaf, 1*5-8 * 5 dm. 1. Corolla: standard pubescent on the outside, ovate-roundish, apex deeply einarginate and retuse, S mm. 1., ,-ibout 1 cm. br., claw ij mm. ].; wings, obovate-oblong, blade s mm. L, claw ~2 mm. 1. ; keel blade S mm. L, claw L' mm. 1., apex dose to ;i]>e\ of wings. [T. grandiflora P/rx. ,s'///i. it. 329 i isi)7) : le.-iilcts in :>-7 pairs, 1-2 cm. 1. ; flowers '2-'2'~> cm. 1. ; pod glalu-ous (except on the margins), about "• em. 1. — Hare, in IV. Cap. ii. 209; Griseb. 22 FLOIIA OF JAMAICA Tephr !<>c. cit. Galena msea Lam. En<-^f. /'/. 599 (1786). G. grandillora Valtl Si/mb. //. 84 (1791). Naturalized in Blue Mts., Wilson ; Prior ; Cinchona, J.P. 1170, Morris ! also Clutel Blue Mt. Peak, Hitchcock. — S. Africa, Rhodesia to Cape. Shrubby, erect, 1-2 ft. high ; stem and branches puberulous or sub- glabrous. Leaflets oblong, glabrous on the upper surface, puberulous or glabrescent beneath, 3-5 mni. br. ; stipules ovate, acute, many-nerved, 5-8 mm. 1. Flowers showy, rosy-purple, large, in corymbose clusters at ends of branches. Bracts broadly ovate, enclosing the young flower-bud, deciduous. Calyx puberulous-silky, 5-7 mm. 1. ; segments awl-shaped. Corolla : standard silky outside, blade roundish, about 2 cm. 1.] [GLIRICIDIA H. B. & K. Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, here and there sub- opposite ; leaflets entire, opposite. Racemes appearing before the leaves, or axillary. Calyx campanulate, entire or obsoletely 5-toothed. Standard roundish, reflexecl, clawed, with 2 lobes inside above the claw ; wings oblong, free ; keel curved. Upper- most stamen free. Pod broadly linear, flat-compressed, margins slightly thickened. Seeds 3-6, flat, roundish-elliptical. Species 3 or 4, natives of tropical America. G. sepium Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, i. 688 (1841) ; Url. Synth. Ant. ii. 288, iv. 284. G. maculata Steud. loc. cit. Robinia sepium Jacq. Enitm. PL Carib. 28 (1760) & Sel Stirp. Amer. 211. Cultivated for fences and subspontaneous in West Indies ; Hope, Harris \ Fl. -Jam. 8453. — Native in Central America and Colombia. Small tree or shrub to 20 ft. high. Leaflets in 4-8 pairs, lanceolate, elliptical, or ovate, 3-6 cm. 1., glabrous. Calyx '5cm. 1. Corolla lilac- rosy and white ; standard (excl. claw) about 2 cm. 1., claw '5 cm. 1. ; wings (incl. claw) about 2- 3 cm. 1. ; keel (incl. claw) about 1'8 cm. 1., claw 6 mm. 1. Style bent at a right angle to pistil. Pod 10-12 cm. 1., 1 to nearly 2 cm. br. Seeds about 1 cm. 1.] 5. SESBANIA Scop. Herbs or shrubs (in S. grandiflora arborescent but short-lived). Leaves abruptly pinnate, leaflets entire in many pairs. Racemes axillary, lax. Calyx 5-toothed (or in S. grandiftora campanulate, toothed- wavy). Standard roundish or ovate. Uppermost stamen free, the rest united into a sheath ; anthers all alike or the alternate a little longer. Pod long, with transverse partitions between the seeds, 2-valved or sometimes scarcely opening. Species 20, widely dispersed through the tropics. Flowers not more than 1 inch long ; buds straight. Plants glabrous. Leaflets in less than 20 pairs ........................ 1. S. Sesban. Leaflets in more than 20 pairs. Flowers 2-2-4 cm. 1 .............................. 2. S. cxasperata. [Flowers 1-1 '2 cm. 1 ............................ S. bispinosa.] Plants pubescent ............................................. 3. S. sericea. [Flowers 3 inches long ; buds curved ........................ S. grandiflora.] LEGUMINOSjE 23 1. S. Sesban rnmb. nov. : jjabmus; branches without prickl< leaflets in 10-18 pairs; tlowcrs 1 •.")-! -$ cm. 1. — S. :ijgvptia<.-;i Pers. Sifn. it. :UG (1807) : II 'A/A/ I: t. 32 ; Grind. Fl. JJr. II'. L«l . 184 ; l>W/7. J7. Siil r. Anal. (fen. t. 12, /'. 3; £«&. m floofr. f. /. Aw*. //•. 286. Sesban Al>. /'/. t. 82. . Kschynniiienc Sesban L. Sj). PL 714 (1753). (Fig. 5.) Type in Herb. Linn. Seashore, Wilson \ March \ cult. Hope Gardens, Harris \ Fl. Jam. 7. — Cuba, Porto Rico, south-eastern America, tropical and subtropical Africa, tropical Asia, northern Australia. Soft-wooded slirub G-10 ft. high. Leaves 1-1-5 dm. 1. ; leaflets oblong- linear, 2-3 cm. 1., -5 cm. br. Racemes 3-12-flowered, 3-15 cm. 1. Ca ///./•, A, Portion of flowering branch x > B, Flower partly opened x •/. C, Stamens x ;. Fig. iJ.—Sexbctiiia Sesban Fa we. & Eendle. D, Pod, partly opened to >h»\v t lie- seeds, x '-'. E, Seed x -. tube 4 mm. 1., teeth about 1 mm. 1. Corolla : standard transversely broadly elliptical, somewhat cordate, 1-5-2 cm. 1., l'7-2'3 cm. br. ; -2 large calli at the base running down into the claw, above the base free, lanceolate, acuminate ; wings, blade 14 cm. 1., claw about -5 cm. 1. ; keel, blade short, •7--8 cm. 1., claw as long. Pod 15-23 cm. 1., slightly torulose, cornpr --*.-d, at length cylindrical, beaked with the persistent style. The colour of the vers is very varied ; some are creamy white with standard finely streaked beneath with dark purple, some are bright yellow, others yellow or creamy white with standard edged with dark red, and some variegated orange and scarlet. 2. S. exasperata If. JJ. '/<. n. "),'M (1824) ; glabrous ; branches generally without any pru-kh -. l>ut '14 FLOKA OF JAMAICA bania sometimes rough ; leaflets in 30-40 (25-50) pairs : flowers 2-2-4 cm. 1. — Bait]/, in FL Bras. xv. pt. 1, 42; Griseb. I'"', cit. ; Hook. f. in But. Nay. t. 7384 (leaves not good). P; ' -Trinidad, tropical continental America. Herb or undershrub 3-8 ft. ; branches angular. Leaves 2-3 dm. 1., leaflets oblong-linear, irritable, mucrouate, 1-5-2-5 cm. 1., 3-G rnm.br. Injlor 4-6-flowered, 8-12 cm. 1. Calyx, tube 4-5 mm. 1., teeth 2-3 mm. 1. Corolla: standard 2-2 '5 cm. 1. ; wings oblong, equalling the standard. Pod 20-25 cm. 1., compressed, only slightly or not torulose, with a long beak. [S. bispinosa Stcud. NomcncL ed. 2, ii. 572 (1841); glabrous; branches rough with short prickles ; leaflets in 30-50 (20-) pairs : flowers 1-1-2 cm. 1. — S. aculeata Pers. loc. cit. (1807) ; Griseb. loc. cit. ; Bale. loc. cit. ; Plants of Cook's First Voy. t. 63 & ic. in ed.pict. S. rnuricata Macf. Jam. i. 257 (1837). JEschynomene bispinosa Jacq. Ic. PL Bar. 13, t. 564 (1797). Coronilla aculeata WilW. Sp. PI. Hi. 1147 (1800). Naturalized, Windward Road, Macfadyen ! also naturalized in some other islands of the West Indies. — Tropics of Old World. Shrub 5 ft. high. Leaves 1-5-3 dm. 1. ; leaflets oblong-linear, mucro- nate, 1-2 cm. l.,2-3 mm. br. ; leaf-rhachis with small prickles beneath. Racemes 2-8-flowered, 3-7 cm. 1. Calyx, tube 3-4 mm. 1., teeth 1-1 • 5 mm. 1. Carolla : standard about 1 cm. 1., yellow with small purple spots outside; wings oblong. Pod 2-3 dm. 1., 3 mm. br., not or only slightly torulose, compressed, at length biconvex, beaked.] 3. S. serieea DC. Prodr. ii. 266 (1825); pubescent (except on upper side of the leaves) ; without prickles ; leaflets in 12-25 pairs ; flowers 8-9 mm. I.-— Griseb. loc. cit. ; Urb. loc. cit. Coronilla serieea Willd. Enum. 773 (1809). Ferry, Campbell \ brackish swamps between Kingston and Spanish Town, Harris* Kingston, Hitchcock; Fl. Jam. 6171, 9051.— Bahamas, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique. Slender branching shrub, 10 ft. high. Leaves 1-2 dm. 1. ; leaflets oblong-linear, mucronate, with adpressed silky hairs beneath, irritable, 1-5-2-5 icm. 1., 4-7 rnm. br. Inflorescence 4-6-flowered, about 4 cm. 1. Calyx, tube 3-4 mm. 1. ; teeth about 1 nun. 1. Corolla yellow, externally tawny, standard 3-9 mm. L, dotted with purple. Pod 1-2 dm. 1., 3 mm. br., terete, shortly beaked. [S. grandiflora Pers. Syn. ii. 316 (1807) ; small tree, with large flowers, 7'5 cm. L, and curved flower-buds; leaflets in 12-22 pairs. — Urb. loc. cit. Robinia grandiflora L. 82). PL 722 (1753). ^Eschynomene grandiflora L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 1060 (1763). Agati grandiflora Desv. Journ. Bot. i. 120, t. 4, /. 6 (1813) ; Griseb. op. cit. 183. Type in Herb. Linn. Cultivated and apparently spontaneous, Shakspear ! — W. Indies, India, Mauritius to N. Australia and Polynesia. Native country unknown, probably India or Australia. Leaves 1-5-3 dm. 1. ; leaflets oblong, mucronate, 2-4 cm. L, 7-12 mm. br. bania LBGUMINOS 25 Racemes 2-flowered, very short. Calyx campanulate, toothed-wavy, about 'J cm. 1. Corolla 6-7 cm. 1., rusy-white or red. Pod compressed, elongate, linear, with swollen margins .-lightly torulose, pendulous, to more than 3 dm. 1. ; seeds sepu1 by ingrowths from the wai * 4. Herl) sometimes shrubby below, or shrubs, not twining nor climbing, or raivlv shrubs. «r even (in Brya) small tre Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets 1-several. or di.u'i- tately 2-4-foliolate in Zoriini ; petiole not bearing a tendril. Stamens 10, united into a sheath, closed or splii above or both above and below, or sometimes the upper- most stamen is more or less free. Pod jointed, not or rarely opening along the lower margin ; joints 1-seeded, usually breaking away from one another when rij sometimes by abortion of the ovules 1 -jointed and 1-seeded. 6. BRYA DC. Shrubs or small trees. Leaves imparipinnate (in B. Ebam*, 1-3 foliolate with scarcely any common petiole). Stipules (in Jamaican species) subspinescent. Flowers in axillary or sub- terminal cymes or clusters. Bracts and bracteoles small, •/ persistent. Calyx 5— lobed. Standard roundish. All the stamens Fi_. 6. /;/••/.( /. I if. \. I ]i;.i-r p.-nii.n nf l!«i\\t.] inur liranch i;, Flower with corolla removed X 3. C, Standard X 2. (After /;-'. .'/•• \>. \\"\nx X 3. r.. Ki. • , I. o\my and .stylo X f>. IV, l-LORA OF JAMAICA Brya united into a sheath, split above, slightly unequal. Ovules 2. Pod divided into 1 or - broad flat joints, not splitting open. Species 3, one a native of Jamaica and Cuba, another of Hispaniola, and the third of Nicaragua. B. Ebenus DC. Pnxlr. ii 421 (1825); Matf. Jam. i. 301; Bot. M«j. i. 4670; Griseb. FL Br. W. Lid. 189. ' Ebenus jamai- censis Phil-. Pltyt. t. 89, /. 1 A: Mm. 132. Aspalathus arboreus Arc. Sloane Cat. 140 »t JI/'*t. //'. 31, /. 175,/. 1. Brya arborescens itc. Browne Hist. Jain. 299, t. 31, /. 2. Pterocarpus foliis &c. Plum. PL Amer. (Burm.) 243, /. 246, /'. 1. Aspalathus Ebenus L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 1001 ,(1763). Spartium arborescens Mill Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768). Amerimnon Ebenus Sw. Prodr. 104 (1788) & FL Lid. On: 1235. (Fig. 6.) Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. & in Herb. Linn. West Indian Ebony, Cocus Wood. Common on the plains and dry bills on the south ; Sloane Herb. vi. 14 [ Catesby in Herb. Sloane clxii. 74 ! Houstoun \ Browne ; Shakspear ! Masson ! Macfadyen; McNabl Land Blue Mts., Hitchcock; Porus, Lloyd; Craig Hill ; Hope grounds ; Harris ! FL Jam. 8635. — Cuba. Shrub or small tree 15-25 ft. high, with clustered branches which are armed with short sharp foliar prickles subtending a reduced leafy shoot. Leaflets small, elliptical or obovate-elliptical, deciduous in dry weather, 7-17 mm. 1. Flowers of a bright yellow or orange colour. Calyx about 3 mm. 1. Corolla : standard about 1 cm. L, '8 cm. br. ; wings 9 mm. 1. (incl. claw), claw 2 mm. 1. Ovary villose. Pod 2-jointed, upper joint small, abortive. The heart wood is of rich brown, almost black, colour. It is excessively hard — as hard as ebony or lignum-vitse — and harder than boxwood. The grain is very fine, dense and even. It is particularly adapted for turnery, and is used for flageolets, inlaying, and cabinet making. Weight 77 to 87 Ibs. per cubic foot. 7. jESCHYNOMENE L. Leaves irritable, imparipinnate but sometimes without the terminal leaflet ; leaflets numerous, small. Stipules lanceolate <>r ovate. Racemes generally axillary. Bracts usually stipule- like ; bracteoles adpressed to the calyx. Calyx 2 -lipped (in Jamaican species). Standard roundish. Stamens 10, united into a sheath, split on one side (in JE. biflora), or on both sides (in ^E. americana). Pod, joints 2-several, square or semicircular, usually not opening. Species about 160, of which 2 (or 3) are widely dispersed in the tropics in Asia and Africa, 1 also in Australia, 1 in S. America and also in Africa and Australia, 1 in jST. America and S. Africa, 3 or 4 peculiar to Africa, all the rest American from Patagonia to N. America. Stipules continued below the attachment 1. ^E. americana. Stipules not continued below the attachment... 2. JE. biflora. LEGUMINOS.E 1. M. americana L. Sp. PL 713 (1753); hirsute; leaflets in 10-30 pairs, linear, 3-5-nerved ; stipules linear-lanceolate, con- -inued below the attachment, the whole 1-2 cm. 1. — Lam. Ilhistr. t. 629, / 2 ; ILn-f. Jam. i 263; Bwtlt. in Fl. Bra*, xv. pt. 1, 61 Gnscl. FL Br. Jr. Lid. 185 ; Urb. S>/mb. Ant. iv. 287, Hedysaruui caule tfcc. Sloanc Cat. 71 & IL',t. i. IM>, 1. 118, /. 3. ^Eschmomene procumbens &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 295. (Fig. 7.) Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. Sloane Herb. iii. 90! "common on south side, especially about Old Harbour and in the lower hills of Liguanea," Browne ! Wright ! Broughton ! ^^asson\ Macfadycnl Manchester, Purdie ! King's House grounds, J.P. 1111, Fig. 7. — jEschynomene americana L. A, Portion of stein with leaf and •', Staudanl x 5. inflorescence x -• B, Flower opened out x o. D, Wing x 5. E, Keel x 5. Hart ! Constant Spring, Port Morant, Port Antonio, Lucea, llitchcocl; : Porus, Lloyd; Hope grounds, Harris I Fl. Jam. 0625, G957. — West Im! tropical continental America. Stem somewhat shrubby, 2-3 ft., erect or ascending. Leaves 5-7 cm. 1., leaflets linear, rnucronate, oblique at the base, finely toothed iirar the apex of the lower margin, glabrous, -5-l'5 cm. 1., 1-2 mm. br. In laxly few-ilowered. I''l«irers G-S mm. 1. C'o?W/r/, standard llesh-colour with a tinge of yellow. Pod shortly stalked, 4 -S-jointed, contracted between the seeds; joints semicircular, about 5 mm. L, 3-J nan. in diam. 2. IE. biflora «•«////*. not-.; glandular-hirsute; leaflets in 4-7 pairs, elliptical or obovate-elliptical, l-ncrved witli pinnate 28 FLORA OF JAMAICA J-Ischyrioni' -- : stipules ovate, many-nerved, 3-5 mm. 1. — JR. brasiliana DC. Prodr. //. l\'2'2 (1825); Benth. torn. nt. 68; Gr!.^l>. Inc. <•//. Senna spuria minima etc. Houston u NS. Cassia biflora Miller Gard. Di.-t. ed. * (1768). C. Houstoniana Collad. Hist. Casts. 1 (1816). Hedysarum brasilianum Pair. Enajc. ri. 448 (1804). Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. Ifoiistoun ! — Cuba, St. Lucia, Trinidad, tropical continental America. Stem shrubby, 2-3 ft. high, diffuse. Leaves 2-3 cm. 1. ; leaflets ciliate, glabrous on upper surface, with a few adprcssed hairs beneath, -8-1*2 cm. 1., 4-6 mm. br. Inflorescence laxly paniculate, several-flowered. Flowers about 7 mm. 1. Pod 1-4-jointed, contracted between the joints ; joints semicircular-roundish, 3-4 mm. in diani. Miller states in his Gardener's Dictionary that " This grows naturally in Jamaica, from whence the seeds were sent me." A specimen with the name in his own handwriting and marked " Jamaica, 1730, Houstoun," is in Herb. Mus. Brit. But we have not seen any other specimen collected in Jamaica. 8. STYLOSANTHES Sw. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate. Stipules united to the leaf- stalk. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, forminsr dense heads »/ 7 O or spikes ; flowers subsessile at the axil of a leaf or of a 2-lobed bract, sometimes solitary with 2 or 3 bracteoles, sometimes with a bristle-like abortive axis. Calyx-tube long, stalk-like ; 4 upper lobes united, lowest distinct, narrow, or, the 2 upper lobes united nearly to the apex, the remaining 3 distinct (in S. Jiamata). Standard roundish. Stamens 1 0, all united into a closed sheath ; anthers alternately longer, subbasifixed, and short, versatile. Pod compressed, apex with a hooked beak, the persistent lower part of the style ; joints 2, or 1 (with the lower abortive). Species 25 to 30, natives of Asia, Africa, N. America, West Indies, but chiefly of S. America. Not viscous; leaflets lanceolate ; beak of pod as long as joint 1. S.hamata. Viscous-pubescent; leaflets elliptical ; beak very short ....... 2. S. viscosa. 1. S.hamata Taub. in Verb. Bot. Brand, xxxii 22 (1890); pubescent or subglabrous ; leaflets lanceolate ; beak about as long as the pod. — Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 288. S. procumbens Siv. Prodr. 108 (1788), in Svensk Vet, Abaci Handl, 1789, 297, 1. 11, /. 1 & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1282; Macf. Jam. i. 262 ; Griseb. FL Br. W. Ind. 188. Anonis non spinosa minor &c. Sloane Cat. 75 & Hist. i. 187, /. 119, /. 2. Trifolium procumbens &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 298. Hedysarum hamatum L. Syst. 1170 (1759) (excl. syn. Burm.), Amcen. v. 403 & % PL ed. 2, 1056 (excl. syn. Burm.). (Fig. 8.) Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. Pencil Flower. St. Jago de la Vega, Sloane, Herb. iii. 94 ! Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 76! Houstoun \ Wrightl Brougliton\ Browne; Bancroft ! common in Siylosanthes LKGU.M1XO.SJ-: oo pastures, Macfadycnl St. Andrew, M^cXabl Purdiel Liguanea plain, 380 ft. ; Campbell ! near Kingston ; between Kingston and Morant Bay ; Watson Hill ; Fanrctt ! Kingston, Port Morant, Hitchcock ; Fl. Jam. 6019, 6113, 8249, 8397.— Bahamas, Cayman, West Indies from Cuba to Grenada, Florida, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia. Stem procumbent or ascending, woody at base, 1-3 or 4 dm. 1. Leaflets •7-1 -7 cm. 1., 2-6 mm. br., subglabrous, margin generally ciliolate ; net A , Portion of flowering branch x . B, Flower with one wing turned down x 5. C, Wing, inner face X 5. Fig. 8.—Stylosanthes hamata Taub. D, Portion of flowering branch with po•;. 507, <. 0(J5 (1824). Loto pentaphyl!<> itc. Slocme Cat. 71 vvr Hist. i. 186, /. 119, /. 1. Trifolium sul)croctum cVc. Brnrnr Hist. Jam. L'99. Hedysarinn haiuatuin, var. vis. PI. ed. 2, 10.">6. Type in Herb. .Mus. Brit. Sloanc Herb. iii. 93 ! Lane in Herb. Sloanc Ixii. 76 ! Rroicni' ; Hw ton ! Shakspcar ! common in pastures and roadsides, M Purdiel WullscJdacijcl ; Oersted \ Spring Hill, Portland; Lititz savanna, 30 I l.oli.V UK JAMAI' A Sfylosanthes 300-900 ft.; Two Mile Wood, St. Catherine; J fun-is \ Fl. Jam. G630, 11,764, 12,406. — Cuba, Mexico, tropical S. America. Stem diffuse or suberect, much branched, woody at base, 2-10 dm. 1. Leaflets "5-1 cm. 1., to 5 mm. br., viscid-puberulous on both sides. Bracts as in S. hamata, bearing in the axil a flower, but no bristle-like stalk ; bracteoles, one lanceolate, one linear, 3'5 mm. 1. Calyx, stalk-like tube 4 mm. 1., limb about 2 mm. 1. Corolla orange-coloured ; standard 4 mm. 1. wings and keel nearly as long. Pod about 4 mm. 1. 9. ZORNIA J. F. Gmel. Leaves digitately 2- or 4-foliolate, usually with pellucid dots. Stipules with a basilar appendage. Flowers distant in spikes or G Fig. 9.— Zornia diphylla Pers. A, Upper portion of branch, with leaves and flower spikes x H. B, Standard x 3. C, Wing x 3. D, Keel X 3. E, Flower with corolla removed x '•'>. F, Upper portion of staininal sheath more highly magnified. G, Ripe pod with one of the hracts re- moved x 3 ; s, persistent staminal sheath. H, Bract slightly magnified. solitary ; each flower enclosed by 2 bracts (stipules of abortive bracts). Calyx hyaline, ciliolate, 2 upper lobes united forming a broad emarginate upper lip, 2 lateral much smaller, lower equalling the upper lip. Standard roundish. Stamens 10, all united into a closed sheath ; anthers alternately longer, subbasi- fixed, and short, dorsifixed. Pod compressed ; joints not opening. Species 11, all American, of which one grows in N. America and also at the Cape, one (Z. dipliylla] polymorphic, widely Zornia LEGUMIXOS^E 31 dispersed through the warmer regions of the world, the rest all tropical American, chiefly Brazilian. Leaflets 2. Flowers in spikes ............ 1. Z.diphylla. Leaflets 4. Flowers solitary .............. -'. '/., tctraplnjlln . 1. Z. diphylla PITS. Si/n. it. -'51* (1807) (with var. ciliata Pers.) ; leaflets '1 ; flowers in spikes.- l:-nf!i. in FL Bra*, xv.pt. 1, 80, //. 21, -2-2 ; Griseb. FL 7>Y. IT. I,,. 289. /. reticulata Smitli in ll<>x ('i!clnj>. ./-.r./; /'./:. (1818) ; Macf. Jam. i. 2»'>1. Hedysarum diphyllum L. Sp. PL 747 (17.V>) : Sw. Obs. Bot. 2v. (mm Mich.c.) ; leaflets 4 : flow»-r> solitary. — Z. myriadena Bentli. in FL lira*, xv. pt. 1, 80 (1859). Z. Sloanei Grist'b. op. cit. 709 (1864). Quadrifolium erectum flore luteo Sloam- Cat. 74 «fc Hist. i. 186, t. 116,/. 3. Ornithopus tetraphyllus L. Sijst. ed. 10, 1168 (1759), Amcen. v. 402 & Sr. PL ed. 2, 1049. Myriadenus Desv. Jouni. Bot. i. 121, t. 4, /. 11 (1813). M. tetraphyllus DC. Pwlr. n. :U6 (1825) : Macf. Jam. i. 260. Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. Savanna, near Two Mile Wood, Sloanc Herb. iii. 92 ! — Cuba, Braxil. Stems woody at the base, diffuse, slender, branching, puberulous. Leaflets usually 4 (sometimes 8), 1-1-3 cm. L, or sometimes less near the llowers, oblaiiceolate, apex rounded or retu<<\ -labrous or sometimes puberulous on the margin, dotted with pellucid glands. l\-il uncles one- flowered, solitary in the uppermost axils, 2-3 mm. 1. Jirnct* elliptical, glandular-dotted, ciliolate, 4-5 mm. 1. Calyx about 3 mm. 1. Corolla yellowish, 12-13 mm. 1. Pod glandular-dotted, glabrous or minutely puberulous with stellate hairs, 2-10-jointed ; joints somewhat rectangular, about 2 mm. 1. 10. DESMODIUM Desv. Leaves ] (innately 3-foliolate (reduced i<> a .-ingle leaflet in D.triquetriiin mid D. gangeticum). Stipules striate, dry. Racemes terminal or sometimes also axillary, simple or paniculate. Flowers 1, or 2 or more in small clusters along the rhachis, or in a simple Ft. 01? A OF JAMAICA Dr, '/in c-lustor opposite the leaves. Calyx: tube short; "2 upper lobes or teeth moiv or less united, ."> lower acute or acuminate. Standard obovate or roundish. Uppermost stamen united with the sheath or more or less free. Pod compressed, with flat joints, usually not opening, but splitting along the lower margin in D. fjyrans, and the joints tardily opening in D. /////<>/•///// and D. barbatum. Species 1 .~>0, widely dispersed through tropical and subtropical regions, some in N. America, a few in S. America, the Cape, and Australia, but none in New Zealand, nor in Europe, nor temperate Asia. Leaf-stalks not winged. Flowers in lax racemes or panicles. Pod indehiscent. Upper margin of legume continuous. Leaflets roundish-elliptical 1. D. adseendens. Leaflets oblong-elliptical, whitish beneath... 2. D. supinum. Upper margin of legume slightly notched. Leaflets 3. Stem 3-cornered with hooked hairs 3. D. intortum . Stem terete. Stem trailing, rooting 4. D. axillare. [Erect shrub D. cajanifoUum.'] [Leaflet '1 D. gangeticum.'] Both margins of legume equally notched. Joints of legume equal and fertile. Joints roundish to rhomboid. Stem erect. Stipules semicordate 5. D. purpureum. Stem procumbent. Stipules not semi- cordate 6. D. procunibens. Joints linear-oblong 7. -D. scorpiurus. Joints only 2, one small sterile, the other larger fertile 8. D. molle. [Pod dehiscing along the lower margin. Lateral leaflets small, moving by jerks D. gyrans.] Flowers 2-4 in clusters opposite a leaf or in axil of leaf 9. D. iriflorum. Flowers crowded iu dense corymbose terminal racemes. Calyx hirsute 10. D. barbatum. [Flowers numerous in axillary umbels. Branches terete D. umbeUatum.~\ Branches 3-angled D. cephalotes.~] [Leaf -stalks winged ; leaflet 1 D. triguetrum.~] 1. D. adseendens DC. Prodr. ii. 332 (1825) ; stems decumbent, with diffuse ascending branches ; leaflets 3, roundish-elliptical ; stipules free from one another ; flowers in lax racemes ; upper margin of pod continuous, joints 2-5 (-7), semielliptical or semi- circular, 4-5 mm. 1. — Benth. in Fl. Bras. xv. pt. 1, 97; Griseb. FL Br. W. Ind. 186; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 290. D. ellipticum Macf. Jam. i. 268 (1837). Hedysarurn repens Miller Gard. Diet, ed. 8 (1768) (non L.). H. adseendens Siv. Prodr. 106 (1788) & Desmodium LEGUMIXOSiE 33 Fl. Lid. Oci-. 1263. Meibornia adscendens Kuntze R<3v. Gen. PL i. 195 (1891). Infl. May; Wrirjlitl B rough ton ! Catherine's Peak, Macfadyen ! Hope- well, St. Mary, McMzft ! Wilson ! Claverty Cottage, J.P. 1446, Hart \ Port Antonio, Hitchcock. — West Indies, tropical continental America. Branches to about 1 ft. high, pubescent, or minutely puberulous, with spreading hairs, or glabrate. Leaflets elliptical, broadly elliptical, or obovate-elliptical, puberulous with adpressed hairs, but few on the upper surface ; stipules persistent, lanceolate, acuminate. Racemes long, 1-2 dm. 1., terminal, laxly flowered. Bracts ovate, acuminate, soon falling. Pedicels usually 2 together, -5-1 cm. 1. Calyx puberulous, 2-5 mm. 1. Corolla about twice as long as the calyx ; standard purple marked with 2 whitish spots near the base. Uppermost stamen free. Pod straight, lower margin wavy to the middle, puberulous with minute hooked hairs. •_'. D. supinum DC. Prodr. ii 332 (1825); stem suberect or lecumbent ; leaflets 3, oblong-elliptical, whitish beneath ; stipules united halfway, at length free ; flowers in lax racemes ; upper Fig. 10. — Desmodium supinum DC. \ . Portion of (lowering branch x . D, Stamens and pistil x 7. B, Flower x f>. ''. \Vin- X 5. E, Pod X I;. margin of pod continuous ; joints 5-7, semielliptical to semi- circular, about 1 nun. 1. — Urb. loc. cit. D. incanum DC. he. <•//. ,• Benth. ioni. <-/t. 98 ; Grixcb. loc. cit. Onobrychis americana tfec. Plulc. Phijt. t. 308, /. 5 & Aim. L'70. Hedysaram foliis ternatis &c. L. llort. Cliff. 3G-"). H. triphyllum fruticosum supinum itc. Shane Cut. "•'! i\r Hixt. I. 185, /. 118, /. 2. H. canescens L. Sp. IV. D 34 FLOE A OF JAMAICA PL 748 (1753) (as far as regards Jamaica); M/Il65. Meibomia supina Britton in Ann. N. York Acad. Sci. vii. 83 (1892). (Fig. 10.) Common in pastures arsd by roadsides; in fl. throughout the year; Sloane Herb. iii. 88 ! Houstoun ! Distin ! March ! King's House, J.P. 1320 ; Claverty Cottage, J.P. 1422 ; Hart \ J.P. 2114, Morris ! Roberts- field, Campbell ! Spring Garden, Mrs. Espcut ! Arcadia, Mrs. Sewcll ! Yallahs Valley, 2500 ft. ; Plato Road, 2800 ft. ; Lititz savanna, 300-900 ft. ; Harris I Ward's Rock, 700 ft., Thompson I Bethlehem, St. Elizabeth, T. Harris ! Kingston, Constant Spring, Bog Walk, Port Morant, Hitchcock ; Port Antonio, Bothrock ; Porus, Lloyd; Fl. Jam. 6537, 6647, 8001, 11,759. Gully Road, St. Ann, Britton, 2563 ! — Florida, Bahamas, West Indies, Yucatan, Guiana, Brazil ; also in Africa. Stems sometimes decumbent at the base and creeping, but more often with numerous branches from a suberect woody base, pubescent sparingly or more or less densely. Leaflets oblong-elliptical, elliptical, or lanceolate, pubescent or glabrate on the upper surface, pubescent beneath, 1 • 5-7 cm. 1. ; stipules lanceolate, persistent, 4-8 mm. 1. Racemes terminal, many-flowered, to 1*5 dm. 1. Bracts linear-lanceolate, 3-4 mm. 1., deciduous. Calyx 2-3 mm. 1. Corolla about -5 cm. 1., pink or bluish-purple. Pod with small hooked hairs, slightly curved, lower margin indented to the middle, 3. D. intortum comb. nov. ; stem 3-cornered, angles with hooked hairs ; leaflets 3 ; flowers in long lax racemes, terminal and axillary ; upper margin of pod slightly notched ; joints 10-3, rhomboid-elliptical, 3-3 '5 mm. 1. — D. uncinatum DC. Prodr. ii. 331 (1825); Benth. torn. cit. 96 ; Griseb. op. cit, 187. D. trigonum DC. torn. cit. 332 (1825); Macf. Jam. i. 269. Hedysarum triphyllum maximum &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 301 (1756). H. intortum Miller Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768). H. unci- natum Jacq. Hort. Schcenbr. Hi. 27, t. 298 (1798). H. trigonum Sw. Prodr. 107 (1788) & Fl, Ind, Occ. 1267. Meibomia uncinata Kuntze torn. cit. 197 (1891). Type in Herb. Mus. Brit, (specimen from Houstoun in Herb. Miller). In fl. Jan.-April ; Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 77 ! Houstoun ! Hope River, Browne ; Liguanea, Broughton ! lower mountains, St. Andrew, Macfadyen; Port Royal Mts., Me Nab ! A. W. Lane I Wilson ! Mt. Hybla, Wattl David's Hill, 3000 ft., Harris I Blue Mt. Peak, Hitchcock; Fl. Jam. 6665. — Tropical continental America. Stem trailing amongst bushes. Leaflets ovate to ovate-lanceolate, pilose with adpressed hairs, and also with short hooked hairs along the nerves on the upper side; petiole 3-cornered; stipules tapering from a broad, triangular, amplexicaul base, ciliate, 8 mm. 1. ; stipels linear-lanceo- late, 4-5 mm. 1. Racemes to 3 dm. 1. Bracts '6-1 cm. 1., deciduous. Pedicels solitary or geminate, '5-1 cm. 1. Calyx 4-5 mm. 1., glabrous. Corolla rosy-pink or purplish-blue, about 1 cm. 1. Pod with small hooked hairs, curved, lower margin indented to or beyond the middle. 4. D. axillare DC. Prodr. ii. 333 (1825) ; stem prostrate, creeping, rooting at the nodes, pubescent ; branches procumbent or ascending ; leaflets 3 ; flowers in long-stalked lax racemes Desmodium LE< il'MlNOSJ-l 35 from the lower axils or from axils at rooting nodes ; upper margin of pod slightly notched ; joints 2 (or 1), semiorbicular, 7-9 mm. 1. — Benth. tout. cit. 99 ; Griseb. loc. cit. ; Url>. tn,,i. cit. 291. D. oblougifolium DC. torn. cit. 332 (1825). D. radicans Macf. Jam. i 2(59 (ls.;7). Hedysarum triphyllum majus repens scapis ifcc. Browne Hist. J. spirale DC. Prodr. ii. 332 (1825) ; Benth. torn. cit. 105; Macf. Jam. i. 271; Griseb. loc. cit.; Urb. loc. cit. Hedysarum proeumbens, Miller loc. cit. (1768). H. spirale Sw. Prodr. 107 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1273. Meibomia spiralis Kuntze torn. cit. 197 (1891). Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. In fl. towards the end of the year; Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 77! Houstoun ! Wright ! Masson ! Macfadyen ! Distin ! Kingston, Prior ! Hope grounds, Harris ! Kingston, Lucea Hitchcock; Fl. Jam. 6637, 6964, 11,852. -West Indies, tropical continental America, tropical Africa, East Indies, Pacific Islands. Stem 1-4 ft. in length, slender, spreading on the ground, or supported by shrubs. Leaflets variable, ovate, lanceolate, oblong, or elliptical, minutely hispidulous or glabrous, 1-3 (-6) cm. 1., sometimes with a light- greyish streak down the centre. Racemes or panicles 1-2-5 dm. 1. Desmodiitm LEGU.MINOS.i; 31 Pedicels 2 or 3 together, -7-1 cm. 1. Flowers very small, rosy or greenish- white tinged with purple. Calyx l'5(-2-5) mm. 1. Corolla about 3 mm. 1. Pod 1-1 -5 em. 1., puberulous with minute hooked hairs. 7. D. seorpiurus Desv. Jotirn. Bot. i. l'2'2 (1813); stem vt-ry long, procumbent, rooting near the base, angular, pubescent ; leaflets 3 ; stipules semicordate, acuminate ; flowers in lax racemes opposite a leaf or axillary ; pod indented slightly equally from both margins ; joints 7-4, net-veined, linear-oblong, more than twice as long as broad, 4-5 mm. 1. — DC. Prodr. it. 333 ; Mn<-f. Jain. i. -71; Grind). /'/'•. >'it. ; Urb. toiit. fit. 293. Hedysarum triphyllurn hirsutum &c. Browne Hi*t. Jam. 301. H. seorpiurus Stv. Prodr. 107 (1788) &'Fl. Ind. Occ. 1269. Meibomia scorpiurus Kuntze torn. cit. 198 (1891). Common in pastures and by roadsides ; in fl. Oct. -Jan. ; Sloane Herb, iii. 86*! Guys Hill, Browne; Bancroft ! St. Andrew, Mts., Macfadycn ; Distin ! Golden Spring, 800 ft., Thompson \ Port Antonio, Lucea, Hitchcock ; Hope Gardens, Harris \ Fl. Jam. 8064, 11,854.— West Indies, Mexico to Peru. Stems to 5 dm. and more. Leaflets roundish-elliptical or oblong- elliptical, pubescent or glabrate on the upper surface, more or less pubescent and glaucous beneath, l-3(-5) cm. 1. Racemes '5-1 '5 dm. 1. Calyx ~1 • 5-3 mm. 1. Corolla pale rosy or whitish tinged with purple, 4 • 5 mm. 1. Pod puberulous with minute hooked hairs. 8. D. molle DC. Prodr. ii. 332 (1825); stem erect, velvety- pubescent with some hairs hooked ; leaflets 3 ; stipules semi- cordate, acuminate ; flowers in terminal and axillary racemes or panicles ; pod twisted, net-veined, of 2 joints only, the terminal one fertile, the other sterile (occasionally both sterile) ; fertile joint orbicular or elliptical, emarginate on one side, 6-7 mm. 1.- Macf. Jam. i. 267 ; Benth. torn. cit. 104 ; Griseb. Zoc, cit. ; Ur!>. torn. cit. 292. Hedysarum molle Valil Sijnib. ii. 83 (1791). Meibomia mollis Kuntze torn. cit. 198 (1891). " In fl. end of year; common weed in the cane pieces of Guauabou, St. John." Macfadycn.— Hispaniola, Mona, Porto Eico, St. Thou St. Cruz, Martinique, Curacao, Central America, Colombia, Bra/il, Guiana. We have not seen any specimen from Jamaica. Stem somewhat shrubby, 2-3 ft. high or more. 7 ovate, 0V triangular to lanceolate, soft and velvety to the touch on both sides with minute adpressod hairs, ciliate, 2-8 cm. 1. /a/o'm^.s or jxniicU'x 1-3 dm. 1. /Vf/jrc/.s generally :\ together, longer than the nower>, -5-- 7 cm. 1. Floi-- very small, purplish. Calyx about 2 mm. 1. Corolla about 3 mm. 1. / puberulous. • [D. g-yrans DC. P/W,-. //. 320 (1825); leaflets 3j lateral very small in e<»nip;irison with the terminal leaflet and mnvini: by jerks (sometimes wanting); upper margin of pod continuous, lower indented, indistinctly 6— 10-jointed, dehiscing in a con- tinuous line along the lower margin. - -Wujli L'. t. -(J\ : llnl;. :>S FLORA OF JAMAICA Desmodiuin torn. clt. 174. Hedysarum gyrans Linn. f. S>ij>j>l. 332 (1781). .Mcibomia gyrans Kuntze torn. cit. 196 (1891). Naturalized ; Mt. James, 1000 ft. ; Plato Road, 3500 ft. ; Temple Hall, St. Andrew, 600 ft. ; Harris ! Castleton Road, GOO ft., Thompson \ Fl. Jam. 5811, 6644, 8078, 12,133. Native of East Indies, Malay isles, Philippines. Herbaceous or shrubby, 1-4 ft. high ; branches subterete. Leaflets 1-3, oblong-lanceolate; terminal leaflet, 5-7 cm. 1., sometimes longer; lateral leaflets 1 to nearly 2 cm. 1. Racemes and panicles axillary and terminal. Flowers hidden at first by the large ovate deciduous bracts. Calyx 2 mm. 1. Corolla about 6 mm. 1., yellow; standard veined with violet. Pod 2-5-4 cm. 1., curved, puberulous or glabrescent.] 9. D. triflorum DC. Prodr. ii. 334 (1825); stem much branched, prostrate or creeping, slender, more or less pubescent ; leaflets 3, small, obovate or obcordate, 4-3 mm. 1. ; flowers in clusters of 2-4, opposite a leaf ; upper margin of pod continuous ; joints 3-6, somewhat square, net-veined, tardily dehiscent, 3-3-5 mm. l.—Benth. torn. cit. 95, t. 26, f. I. ; Macf. Jam. i. 272 ; Wight Ic. t. 292 ; Griseb. op. cit. 186 ; Urb. torn. cit. 289. Hedy- sarum triflorum L. Sp. PL 749 (1753); Sw. Obs. 288, t. 6./. 1. Meibomia triflora Kuntze torn. cit. 197 (1891). Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb. Mus. Brit. By roadsides, in pastures and in cane-piece intervals ; in fl. Nov. ; Morant Bay, Broughton ! Macfadyen ! Prior ; Hope grounds, Fawcett ! also Harris ! Golden Spring, Thompson \ Constant Spring, Port Antonio, Lucea, Hitchcock ; in pastures, Tyre, near Troy, 2000 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6798, 7473, 8052, 9084.— Florida, West Indies, tropical continental America, tropical Africa, south-east Asia. Stipules persistent. Calyx pilose, 2-3 mm. 1., segments lanceolate, the two upper united to the middle. Corolla red to purple ; standard long- clawed, 4 mm. 1. Uppermost stamen free or united only at the base. Pod 1-1 '5 cm. L, lower margin indented. 10. D. barbatum BentJt. in Miq. PL JungJi. 224 (1852); stem erect or procumbent with ascending branches, pubescent or villose ; leaflets 3 ; flowers nodding, crowded in dense corymbose terminal racemes, 2 under each large scarious bract, with hirsute calyx ; pod reflexed, upper margin continuous ; joints 2-4, some- what rhomboidal, transversely veined, tardily dehiscent, 3 mm. 1.- Benih. loc. cit. 95, t. 26, /. II. ; Griseb. loc. cit. ; Urb. torn. cit. 290. Hedysarum barbatum L. Syst. ed. 10, 1170 (1759), Amoen. v. 403 & Sp. PL ed. 2, 1055 ; Sw. Obs. Bot. 287. H. villosum Miller Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768). Nicolsonia barbata DC. Prodr. ii. 325 (1825) ; Macf. Jam. i. 264. Meibomia barbata Kuntze torn. cit. 195 (1891). Clarendon Mts., Broughtonl Macfadyen; St. Ann, 'Purdie ! Wilson ! Westphalia, J.P. 1477, Campbell ! St. George, 2500 ft. ; Mt. Hybla, 3500 ft. ; Savanna, Upper Clarendon, 2500 ft. ; Harris ! Spanish River, seven miles from Buff Bay, Moore ! — West Indies, tropical continental America. Plant low-growing to 2 ft. Leaflets, terminal oblong-elliptical, 1*3-3 cm. 1., lateral a little smaller; stipules persistent. Racemes 1 • 5-3 cm. 1. Bracts hirsute. Calyx 4 mm. 1. Corolla shorter than the Desmodium LKi:UMIN<"»>.i: 39 calyx, rosy, blue or whitish ; standard long-clawed. Uppermost stamen free or cohering only at the base. Pod '7-1 '3 cm. 1., lower margin indented. [D. umbellatum DC. Pnxlr. //'. :>'2~> (l^'2^) ; shrub with terete branches ; leaflets 3 ; flowers in dense shortly-stalked or sessile axillary umbels ; pod with style persistent, upper margin slightly notched; joints 5-1, elliptical, 7-10 mm. 1. — Bil till f era Jacq. . . . 337 jnlulifera L ..... 341 procumbens DC. . . . 337 prostrata Ait ..... 341 prunifolia Jacq. . . . 344 pulcherrima Willd. . . 344 punicea Sw ..... 345 recUnatarrwnort&c. Browne. 337 thymifolia L ..... 342 trichotoma foliis &c. Browne ..... 343 troyana Urb ..... 345 EUPHORBIAGEJE ... 248 Euphorbiodendron puniceiim ilillsp ....... 345 I n > i/it )i um Millsp. . . . 345 F.i:cu:i-urif'i cuncata Muell.Arg. 326 glandulosa Griscb. . . 332 glandulosa Sw. . . . 331 lauroccrasus ^Fucll. Arg. . 325 tiiiifuliit Sic ..... 331 J-'iiijuni iicitmJiiiitn titr. cidnntrilla ]\'r. act'ur/>i(>tii I • •i I, < i in i M< Hart I. . Anonyii •Jd 21 I'.i 22 L8 1M tic. 358 FLORA 01 JAMAICA PAOB Gcoffnva in<'r)iiis Wright . . 85 iuiicc)ixix i)iennis \Vriglit 85 GERANIAC'E/E .... 154 GEBANIUM L 154 carolinianum L. (fig. 48) . 154 columbinum carolinum dc. Dill 154 lanuginosum Jaaj. . . 154 pyrenaicum Gi'iscb. . . 154 Gigalobium dc. Browne . . 124 scandens Hitchc. . . . 125 GLIBICIDIA H. B. & K. . . 22 maculata Steud. ... 22 sepium Steud 22 Globuli majores Humph. . . 94 Glycine Abrus Z/ 43 caribxa Jacq 74 caule piloso dc. Plum. . 49 debilis Ait 49 foliis pinnatis conjugates dc. L 43 Galactia L 55 labialis Linn. f. 49 oblonga Benth. ... 49 pliaseoloides Sw. ... 74 rcticulata Sio 72 scandens dc. Browne . . 43 striata Jacq 57 sylvestre scandens dc. Browne 74 GLYCOSMIS Correa .... 182 citrifolia Lindl. . . . 182 cochinchinensis Pierre . 182 pentaphylla DC. ... 182 Gooseberry, Otaheite . 259 Gorse 13 Grape Fruit . . . . 190 GreenEbony . . . . 266 Grey Nicker . . . . 94 GRIMMEODENDBON Urb. . . 326 jamaicense Urb. . . . 327 GroundNut . . . . 41 Ground Tamarind . . 132 GUAIACUM L 163 flare dc. Plum. ... 163 foliis dc. Browne . . . 163 jamaicense . . . flore albo Pluk 163 jamaicense . . . flore sub- cxruleo Pluk. . . . 163 officinale L. (fig. 52) . . 163 Guango 152 GUABEA L 214 glabra Vahl (fig. 71) . . 214 • Swart zii DC 214 trichilioides Siv. . . . 214 Vahliana A. Juss. . . 215 GuianaPlum . . . . 269 Guilamlina aculeata dc. L. bonducclla L. . glabra Griseb. . spinosa dc. Browne Gum Animi .... G u m T r e e G u m W o o d Gungo Pea .... GYMNANTHES Sw. . elliptica Sw. glandulosa Muell. Arg. glandulosa Pax integra Fa we. & Bendle jamaicensis Urb. . lucida Sw. (fig. Ill) . PAOE 94 92,94 . 94 . yy . 94 . 121 . 325 . 318 71,72 . 329 . 331 . 331 . 332 . 332 . 331 329 HZEMATOXYLUM L 96 campechianum L. . . . 97 spinosum dc. Browne . . 97 HaricotBean. . . . 65 Hecastophyllum Brownei Gri- seb 78 monetaria Griseb. ... 78 Hedysarum adscendens Sw. . 32 axillare Sw 35 barbatum L 38 brasiliamim Pair. ... 28 cajani folium H. B. & K. . 35 canescens L caule & c. Sloane ... 27 caule scens &c. Browne, . 36 Ceplialotes Boxb. ... 39 dipliyllum L 31 Ecastapliyllum L.. . . 78 foliis simplicibus cordaio- oblongis , pctiolis simpli- cibus &c. L 40 foliis simplicibus foliolis d-c. L 75 foliis ternatis dx. L. . . 33 gangeticum L 35 gyrans Linn. f. hamatum L. 28, 29 herbaceum procumbens d'c. Browne 31 incanum Sw 34 iniortum Miller ... 34 minus diphyllum dx. Sloane 31 molle Vahl 37 mimmularifolium L. . 40 procumbens Miller . . 36 purpurcum Miller. . . 36 repens Miller .... 32 scandens Miller ... 55 scorpiurus Sw 37 spirale Siv 36 INDF.X 359 i/sarum o>ntitin«l. xtml>il.if<'rtim L. . . . siqrintim Sw ..... tortuosum Sw ..... trijlonim L ..... trigonnm Sw ..... trijilti/llum fruticosum flare etc. Sloanc ... triphyUum fruticosum supinum Ac. Sloanc . triplujllnm hirsiitum d'c. Browne ..... muus rcpens sco/ns <&c. Browne . . tnplnjllum maximum d'c. Browne ..... triquctrum L ..... umbellatum L ..... uncinatum Jacq. ... vaginal' L ...... vespcrtilionis Linn. /. . villosum Miller ... Herba mimosa non spinosa . . . Parmambuca &c. Sloane . Herba mimosa non s})inosa platycerates t&c. Sloane . . Herpetica alata Raf. . . . HETBROPTERIS H, B. & K. . laurifolia A. Juss. (fig. 77) pan; i folia DC ..... par vi flora Griseb. . . . purpurea H. B. & K. . . reticulata Niedenzu . . HibbertBean. . . . HibbertPea . . . . HIPPOMANE L ...... arboreum &c. Browne. . arboreum ramulis &c. Browne ..... biglandulosa Sw. . . . man<;nnilla Jacq. . . . Mancinella L. (fig. 110) . Hog-berryTree . . . HoopTrce ..... Hoop Wood ..... Horse Beau ..... H o r s c C a s s i a . . . . Eorse I'ly c Bean . . . Horse Wood ..... EUBA L ........ orepitans L. jfig. 112) . . HYEUONIMA Allcra. . . . r\oB 75 Ml 3G 38 34 36 33 37 35 34 39 39 34 40 40 38 132 130 109 232 232 234 234 234 233 64 64 327 328 334 325 327 327 222 216 150 61 101 53 150 : 334 270 Miu'll. Arc? I ....... 270 IIr. Ml", i \ 1 ....... 1 I'l Courbsiril \ ,. (fig. 35) . . IJi) Juliis dc. Lrownc . . . 120 nlii JlitcL. Jricn titlcnuatn Y/M.sr Jn'j>t(i}>lt>dlti d'riscb. Incense Tree Indian Savin Tree Indigo INDIGOFERA L. . anil L. 15 argentca L. assurgcns dc. decomposite tii L niultitida 1 |)aiidur;t 'fi'lia Audi'. . • hi^rica 1 1-mk. .1 . : i: a B 1 «• in Date . . Jernsale m T b <> r n . Juglandi ujfinis il'c. ;;1 - 315 813 •"•! 1 : iis 360 1-L'iKA OF JAMAH 'A PAGE Juglandis folio (&c. Sloane . 109 Juglans baccatu /> 273 foliis oblongis dc. JJivicne -21'.', KALLSTRCEMIA Scop. . . . 106 maxima Wight & Arn. (fig. 54) 166 KidneyBeau . . . . 65 King Orange . . . . 189 LablabBean . . . . 71 Lablab vulgaris Savi ... 70 Laburnum liumiliu* dc. Sloanc 71 LASIOCROTON Griseb. . . . 293 Pawcettii Urb. . . . 294 Harrisii Britton . . . 295 macrophyllus Griseb. (fig. 96) 293 Lathyrus tingitanus L. 42 Lauro affinis arbor dc. Sloane 215 affinis Jasmini dc. Sloanc 175 affinis tcrcbinthidc. Sloane 178 La urns folio breviore dc. Sloane 211 LEGUMINOSJE .... 1 Lemon 186 Lemon, Chinese . . . 183 Lemonia spectabilis Lindl. . 169 LEUG.ENA Benth 136 brachycarpa Urb. . . . 136 glauca Benth 136 Libi-dibi 96 Libidibia coriaria Sclileclit. . 96 LiccaTree 178 Lignum campecliianum dc. Sloane 97 Lignum Rorum . . . 178 LignurnVitse . . . . 163 LimaBean 64 Lima of Ceylon .... 187 Lime 187 Limo agrestis Rumpli. . . 187 arbor dc. Sloane . . . 186 aurarius Rumpli. . . . 187 decumanus Rumpli. . . 190 ferus Rumpli 187 ventricosus Rumpli. . . 187 Limon vulgaris Mill. . . . 186 Limonellus or Limo tennis Rumpli 186, 187 Limonia aurantifolia Clirist- mann 186 citrifolia Willd. ... 183 parviflora Sims . . . 183 pentapliylla Rctz.». . . 183 trifolia Burm. f. . . . 183 trifoliata L 183 LINAGES . 158 LlNUM L PAGB 159 jamaicense Rendle (fig. 50) . . . 159 usitatissimum L. . 158 Lil>arene alba Poit. . . . -CM Lobus ecliinatus fructu flavo dc. Sloane 92 ecliinatus fructu cxsio &c. Sloane 93 LocusBerry . . . . 222 LocustTree. . . . 121, 222 Logwood 97 Lonchitidi affinis dc. Sloane . 263 LONCHOCARPUS H. B. & K. . 80 dommgensis DC. ... 82 latifolius H. B. & K. (fig. 25) 81 patens Urb 80 sericeus Griseb. ... 82 sericeus H. B. & K. . . 82 Turpinii H. B. d K. . . 82 Loto pentapliyllo dc. Sloanc . 29 Lotus Berry . . . . 222 LOUEEA Neck 39 vespertilionis Desv. . . 40 Lysiloma bahamensis Benth. 141 Marcliiana Griseb. . . 142 Macary Bitter . . . 202 Mafootoo Withe . . . 125 Mahogany 217 Ma joe Bitter . . . . 202 Mali folio arbor artcmisiasodore etflore Sloane .... 282 Mali folio arbor, artemisix odore flore pcntapetalo dc. Sloanc 281 MALPIGHIA L 224 aquifolia L 270 angustifolia L. 228 biflora Poir 228 cinerea Poir 222 coccifera Cav 229 coccigera L 229 coccigrya L 229 coriacea Sic 222 crassifolia L 222 glabra L. (fig. 75) , . . 224 foliis'lanccolatis dc. Plum. 270 foliis ovatis dc. Plum. . 226 fruticosa erecta foliis dc. Browne 225 fruticosa erecta ramulis dc. Browne .... 226 fucata Ker 226 Harrisii Small .... 228 liumilis dc. Browne . . 230 humilis dc. Plum. 229 INDEX 361 MAJLPIGHIA — run tinned. iiicana Mill ..... linearis Jucq ..... •macrophylla Dt-xf. . . •martinicetixix -lac-(iniUa d-c. Plum. . . . Mancini.'lla vcnenata Tussac . ]\Ianchiueel ..... M a n d a r i n 0 r a n g c . . Mandaaru dc. Pluk ..... MAN i HOT Adans ..... folio d-c. Dill ..... inodorum d~c. Pink. . . Manihot Cockcrell . . utilissima Pohl (fig. 102) . Manioc ...... -VargantanY/ nobilis Linn. /. . MAX AI.KIA Bert ..... Hiraea Fawc. & Ilendlc (fig. 82) ..... jamaicensis L'rb. d Ni«l- PAGB -' M- ii"'»iin continued. Kmit.:c. 2:'.'-2> 190 186 187 188 328 328 328 189 118 308 313 30S 308 308 308 260 240 240 240 24O Kun; urtia Km: ... ciiji-ti<-(i Knni:.i- . rons K a nt .• . - \'ail . Kuntzt t Km supina Brit ton :;r.) '.7 :'.7 umbellate Kunt., . uncinnta Kun'~i: . Azederach lj .^•>nj» reru Siu. . MELIACE^E Mettenia globosa Qriseb. Milk Wood MIMOSA L aculi'utii foliis natis Plum amcricana pig fa L£C. Pluk. antillarum Lam. . . . urubica Lam ..... arborca L ...... arborea L. Herb. . . . arborca corticc dc. Browne arborea d'c. Sloans . . asperata L ...... bimucrouata Kuntze . . caule fruticoso dc. Mill. . co-mosa Sw ...... concinna Willd. . . . cyclocarpa Jacq. . . . difitixn dc. Browne . . diplotriclia Wright . . dulcis Eoxb ..... farncsiana L ..... duplicate - ' PAOI 39 39 34 215 215 216 209 318 325 132 134 131 151 140 148 141 148 foliis pinnatis dx. Plum. . frutescens media dc. Browie ..... frutescens spinosa dc. Uroicnc ..... frutu-' • i'! dh . Broicnc fruticoxa foliis dc. liroicnc gigasL ....... ijlanca L ...... guadalupensis 1'ers. . . dc. Sloanc . . niija 1 ........ invisa Mart ..... juftbrissin Sc"j>. . julijl- Sw ..... luctixtris llumb. d lion;'!. la ti folia L ...... Lebbeck 1 ....... lut, a Mill ...... maiiiit-nxi* ./ust. 135 134 135 144 141 151 128 135 147 139 130 153 130 135 144 147 124 136 147 153 135 129 145 \ '•'•'•'• 1 Id 130 362 FLOKA OF JAMAICA PAGK MIMOSA — continued. IMrvifolia Sw 151 pellita Humb. & Bonpl. . 135 pcregrina L 120 pernambucana L. . . . 132 pigraL 135 plena L 130 portoriccnsis Jacq. . . . 142 pudica L. (fig. 42) . . . 133 punctata L 130 rosea Vahl 147 rugata Lam 141 salinarum Vahl . . 128, 139 salinarum von Bohr . . 138 saman Jacq 152 scandens L 124 sepiaria Benth. . . . 134 speciosa Jacq 145 spinis in caulc gcminis, foliis bigeminis Plum. . 147 thyrsoidea Griseb. . . . 134 tortuosa L 138 tortuosa <&c. Browne . . 138 unguis-cati L 147 villosa Sw 141 virgata L 132 viva L 132 zygiaL 150 MIMOSEJE .... 5, 124 Moghania strobilifera St. Hil. 75 M o n k e y N u t . . . . 41 Mosclioxylum SwartziiAsJuss. 211 Mountain Damson . . 198 Mountain Ebony . . 117 Mountain Pride. . . 193 Moutouchi suberosa Aubl. . 79 MUCDNA Adans 51 Mucuna Marcg 53 altissima DC 52 FawcettiiUrb 54 pruriens DC 54 Sloanei Fa we. & Rendle (fig. 16) 53 urens DC 53 urens Fawc. & Rendle . 52 Musk Wood . . . . 211, 215 Myriadenus Desv. '. 31 tetraphyllus DC. ... 31 Myrica segregata Jacq. ... 291 Navel Orange . . . . 188 Negretia urens Tussac ... 53 NEPTUNIA Lour 129 oleracea Lour. (fig. 40) 129, 131 plena Benth. . . . 130, 131 Nickar Tree. . . 92 XT- 1 1 I>AOE Nickel 88 Nicolsonia barbata DC. . . 38 ^ight-flowering Acacia . 142 No Eye Pea . . . . 71,72 Nuxjuglans trifolia &c. Sloane 273 Oil Nut, Wild .... 314 OmphaUndria diandra Kuntze 321 foliis obovatis &c. Browne 320 frutescens &c. Browne . 321 triandra Kuntze . . . 320 OMPHALEA L. 319 axillaris Sw 259 cauliflora Siv 258 cordata Sw 321 diandra L. (fig. 107) . .' 321 Epistylium Poir. . . . 258 frondosa Muell. Arg. . . 320 nucifera Sw 320 triandra L 320 Onobrychis americana &c. Pluk. 33 maderaspatana d-c. Pluk. . 31 Orange 137 OEMOSIA Jack 87 discolor Spruce (fig. 29) . 87 jamaicensis Urb. (fig. 29) . 88 Ornitliopus tetraphyllus L. . 31 Otaheite Gooseberry . 259 Overlook Bean 61,62 OXALIDACE^E .... 155 OXALIS L 156 Acetosella L. (fig. 49) . . 157 bipunctata B. Grah. . . 157 caule &c. Browne . . . 156 corniculata L 155 corymbosa DC. (fig. 49) . 157 jamaicensis Macf. . . . 156 Martiana Zucc. . . . 157 repens Thunb 156 OxEyeBean . . 52 PACHYRBHIZUS DC. ... 69 angulatus L. C. Bich. . 70 erosus Urb 70 tuberosus Spreng. ... 70 Pachy stigma ptekoides Hook. . 181 PAPILIONAT^ .... 1,6 PAEKINSONIA L 93 aculeata L. . 93 aculeata <£c. Plum. \ . 98 ParkNut 138 PeaNut 41 PEDILANTHUS Neck. . . . 346 Grisebacbii Millsp. & Brit- ton (fig. 114) .... 347 INDEX 363 PAGK PBDILANTHUS — continue/. jamaicensis Millsp. cV Bril- ton (fig. 114). ... latifolius Millsp. & Britton 348 tithi/maluides Poit. . . 348 PELTOPHORUM Bcnth. ... 90 brasiliense Urb. (fig. 31) . 90 Linnxi Bcnth ..... 90 PELTOSTIGMA Walp. . . . 180 pteleoides Walp. (fig. 57) . 181 Pencil Flower. . . . 28 Pcplis fniticosa etc. Sloane . 336 Pepper Rod. . . . 283, 284 Pcrim Kaku Valli Eliecd. . . 124 PHASEOLUS L ...... 62 adenanthus G. F.W. Mey. (fig. 20) ..... 65 americanus foliis d~c. Pluk. 54 amcricanus fnttescens &c. Pluk ....... 52 amcenus Soland. ... 65 amplo flore pcltato dc. Plum ....... 44 antillanus Urb. . . .69 arborescens alatus &c. Pluk ....... 43 bipunctatus Jacq. ... 64 brasilianus &c. Sloane . 53 compressus DC. . . . 64 dumosus Macf. . ... 64 erect us . . . liilo nigro not at is Browne ..... 66 erect us incanus &c. Pluk. . 71 erectus latJujroides &c. Sloane ..... 65 erectus major .... semine rubro Sloane. ... 66 crcctus minor Semitic spherico albido liilo nigro Sloane. ... 66 crcctus .... scminibus ob- long is albidis Lm/rne . 66 erectus .... s< minibus rufcscentibus oblongis Browne ..... 66 fcecundus Mucj. ... 64 glycyrrMzites dc. Sloane. \-'> r,4 ('. 1 65 c»i c.-l ('.:> c>l inam/. ma. rim us pcrcnnis <&c. I'AGE 64 60 GU Broun mu.rini/t:; /a a nnisfloribus d'r. Slut me .... 70 maximiis j>ci'otnis folio ,fr. Sloane .... 124 maxim us pcrcnnis scminc d-c. Sloane .... 64 ma.i:i)nus siliqua &c. Sloane 61 mi)dmuH &c. Sloane . . 73 mitiur erectus d~c. Broi 65 minor lactescensdc. Sloane 55 Mungo L 66 nanus L 64 parviflorus Stokes ... 64 peduncularis H. B. & K. . 68 perennis angustifolius &c. Sloane 64 2)soraleoides Wight & Am. 65 radice tuberosa <&c. Plum. 70 restrains Wall 65 rufus Jacq 64 saccharatus Macf. ... 64 saccharatus Stokes . . 64 scandens .... qtiadrisper- mibus Browne ... 64 scandens .... radiatus Browne 64 scmierectus L 65,66 siliyuis latis &c. Plum. . 53 sfilicTrusiwrmus L. . . . 67 suberectus major dx. Browne 61 subliirsiitus d~c. Pluk. . 65 sylvaticus d'C. Sloane . . 46 sylvestns dr. Sloane . . 49 trnxillcnsis H. B. <.£ K. . 65 imguiculatus Piper . . 69 utrin<-]_uc Indix tt:c. Sloane 54 vulgaris L 64 Pliylanthos amcricana d\\ Commcl 261 PHYLLANTIH s L 251 acuminatus Vahl . . . *_'•"> 4 iiii.u'iistifolius S\v. . . . 262 ;u|uaticus C'. \Vri.-lit . . 256 arbiiKcula Stcud. . . . 264 axillaris ^NIucll. Arg. . . 258 r,iroliiieiisi- \\'alt. . . . 255 cauliflorus Gii-.li. . . 26fi cUidantliu- Muell. Arg. . 258 Conntm Sir 254 Coxiunus l-';i\\v. A ii^iidlc 2 disticliu^ Mudl. Arx. . . 2 o|.i[>hyllanthus I,, (tig. 85) 261 Ejnstiylium Uriscb. . . 259 364 FLORA OF JAMAICA I'AGK I'llYLLANTHUS — COIltill llCll . Fadyeuii Urb 255 falcatus S/r iiOl fulii* (ingitvtis dr. /m'/o/c -JGL' folii^ lai^oribusdc. Browne 263 foliis. . . .pedwnculatis <£c. L 25G foliis . . . . scssilibus &c. L. 255 glabellus Fawc. & Rendle 260 inaequaliflorus Fawc. & Rendle 264 isolepis Urb 263 jamaicensis Griseb. . . 257 latifolius Mucll. Arg. . . 265 latifolius Sw 263 laurifolius A. Rich. . . 272 leprocarpus Wight. . . 255 linearis Sw 266 longifolius Jacq. . . . 259 minor Fawc. & Rendle . 257 montaiius Sw 261 niruri L 256 nivosus W. G. Smith . . 266 nobilis Muell. Arg. . . 259 wu/mmulariaefotius Britton 257 nutans Sw 253 orbicularis Griseb. . . 255 obovatus Muehlenb. . . 256 portoricensis Urb. . . 254 pubigerus A. Rich. . . 272 reticulatus Poir. . . - 257 speciosus Jacq. . . . 264 Swartzii Fawc. & Rendle 265 tremulus Griseb. . . . 260 Urinaria L. 255, 256 Physic Nut 311 Physic Nut, French . 313 Physic Nut, Spanish. 313 Physic Nut, Wild . . 345 PICK^NA Lindl 200 antillana Fawc. & Rendle 201 excelsa Lindl 200 PICRAMNIA Sw 201 Antidesma Sw. (fig. 66) . 202 antidesmoides Griseb. . 203 micranlha Tul. . . . 203 pentandra Sw 203 triandra Stokes . . . 202 Picrania amara Wright . . 200 Picrasma antillana Urb. . . 201 excelsa Planch. . . . 201 PICRODENDRON Planch. . . 273 arboreum Planch. . . . 273 baccatuni Kr. it Urb. (fig. 90) 273 juglans Griseb. . . . 273 Pigeon Pea .... 71, 72 PAGE PIPTAUKMA Benth. . . . 126 (icrc^rina Benth. (iig. 39) 126 PISCJDIA L 83 Knjthrina L 84 piscipula Sarg. (fig. 26) . 84 1'ixtacia Simaruba L. . . . 206 PITHECELLOBIUM Mart. (Pithe- colobium) 146 Alexandri Urb. . . . 148 arboreum Urb. . . . 148 Berteriaruwm Benth. . . 145 comosum Benth. . . . 144 cyclocarpum Mart. . . 151 dulce Benth 147 filicifolium Benth. . . 148 fragrans Benth. . . . 145 g iiadalupense Chapm. . 147 Jupunba Urb 148 latifolium Benth. . . . 150 micradenium Griseb. . . 148 parvifolium Benth. . . 151 saman Benth 152 unguis-cati Beuth. (fig. 45) 146 Poinciana 98 POINCIANA L 97 aculeata &c. Broivne . . 95 bijugata Jacq 95 coriaria Jacq 96 pulcherrima L. ... 95 regia Boj 97 Poinsettia 344 Poinsettia geniculata Klotzsch & Garcke 344 heterophylla Klotzsch & Garcke 344 Ocrstediana Klotzsch & Garcke 343 pulcherrima Grah. . . 344 punicea Klotzsch & Garcke, 345 POLYGALA L 242 americana Mill. . . . 243 angustifolia H. B. & K. . 243 arborea &c. Browne . . 244 bryzoides St. 13.il. ... 243 camporum Benth. . . . 243 chinensis L 244 diver si folia L 244 frnticosa . . . capsulis sub- rotundis &c. Broivne . 244 frnticosa. . . floribus con- friiis d'c. Browne . . 244 hcrbaceaminor&c. Broivne 242 jamaicensis Chod. . . . 244 mucronata Macf. . . . 243 paniculata L. (fig. 83) . 242 POLYGALACE^E .... 241 Pomelo 190 Pomphidca Swartziana Miers 170 INDEX 365 i Pop-nut Portesia ovata Car. /-)/") O C- J J '/ / t- ) 1 >I > i // 1 > ' W I / * X L/oo & / It -^ t » ft/ 1 /( f »'. Oil. • • • P r i c k 1 y Y e 1 1 o w PRIORI A Griseb copaifera Griseb. (fig. 37) . P r o 1 i f i c B e a n . PROSOPIS L ditlcis Kn nth .... horrlda Kuntli julinora DC. . . . 128, PROTIUM Burm attenuatum Urb. (fig. 69) Copal Engl guiancnse Ltujl. Pruno forte affinls arbor folio cf'c. Sloane forte affinis arbor dc. Sloane vcl Euonymo dc. Pseudo - santalum Sloane .... PTKROCARPUS Jacq. draco L. . ccastaphyllum L. . foliis &c. Plum. officinalis Jacq. (fig. 24) . Pterota subspinosa dr. Browne Purse Cacoon . Pyretrum aphyllon Plum. Quadrifolium ercctum &c. Sloane Quassia Quassia amara Linn. f. excelsa Sw />olt /dam a Lindsay Sinn i ml HI Linn. f. Wright . . . Sloane . croce/nn 79 Rattle- wort RAVENIA Veil spectabilis Planch, (fig. 55) Swart/iana Fawc. i^ Rendle Red Bead Vine Red Bean 'I' ree . . 50 Red Birch Peas Wood a pici Ac. Sloane antillaiid K't'ier* ar borea Macf obxoniorum i(r/>nre<> Sloane Hicino ajjini* odunfi ra Irntl- cosa mu jo,- d\. RICINUS L hispido Sluanf PAGE 72 74 293 2'J2 331 287 277 :;or, 306 dv. Commel. americanus tenult'-r <(•»-. Brt'i/n comniuiiis L. (fig. 101) jicus folio &c. Sloane . globosus Wilhl. minor stapldsagri.r. folio &c. Sloane .... •minor viticis d'c. Sloane . Ringworm Shrub l\itfera grandlflora Vahl . ximpler Vahl .... Piobinia grandlflora L. pednnculis dc. Plum. sepium Jacq xcricea Poir rlolacea Mill RockBush Rosemary, Wild or Spanish Rose -wood . . 17i-., l'.»2. Ruta chalapensis L. (/rai't'iileiis L/in. BUTACE^B Siunanea xaman Merrill . Sandbox '!'!«' e . S an Hemp Sapindttsfruticosus dc, SAPIUM Jac<[ arbori nmfolii* iseb. ld/ii'tit;-rti*; &C. Sloan,' . simariibit \\~. /•'. Wight simplicifolia I TETRAPTERIS Cav. . citrifolia I 'c: iii;i'II-M rubrivenium 105) . . THKYALI.IS L glauca Small .... gnu-ilis Kunt/c Tin/me ':i.-i fnii' frutex dc. Sloane . PACK 19G 197 196 197 18 88 88 88 88 21G 216 61 261 119 148 119 119 119 119 189 42 308 17 19 21 20 21 19 -21 21 20 19 18 20 48 49 49 49 4(J 205 205 207 205 •J< if, 207 239 289 240 817 317 233 233 231 L97 PAGE Tilix affinis dc. Sloane . . 222 Tilia- forte arbor raccmosa tf'c. Sloane 253 Titiii/m-alus botn/oides credits . Burm. ...... 337 botryoidcs zci/Uniicus d~c. 1 1 arm 337 ditlcix parictari;' d:c. Sloane 337 « fcctits acris (i!yiiriir;i I'rb. Slmnii i Miief. >idioid< siibltirsuta Brown* terminalis face 21] .1 c . 212 212 211 212 2TJ 213 212 210 210 212 368 FLORA OF .JAMAICA PAGE TRIFOLIUM L 13 acetosnm corniculatiim &c. Sloanc 150 dubiuni Sibth 14 jiliformc Macf. .... 14 minus lldlian .... 14 procuinbens dc. Browne . 28 repens L. (fig. 2) ... 13 snbcrectum d~c. Browne . 29 TRIOPTEEIS L 238 bifiirca Gxrtn 239 Brittonii Small ... 239 citrifolia Sw 239 Hirxa Gxrtn 240 jamaicensis L 239 jamaicensis Sic. . . . 238 lingulatum Pair. . . . 237 ovata Cav 238,239 paniculata Small . . . 238 TRIPHASIA Lour 183 aurantiola Lour. . . . 183 trifolia P. Wils. ... 183 trifoliata DC 183 TurkeyBlossom. . . 166 Turpentine Tree. . . 206 ULEX L 12 europaeus L 12 Urinaria indica &c. Burm. . 256 Urtica minor iners &c. Sloanc 298 Urtica racemosa scandens &c. Sloan e 305 Urtica urens arborea &c. Sloane 303 Vachellia farnesiana Wight & Am 139 Vetch 42 ViciAL 42 littoralis Jacq 21 sativa L 42 VIGNA Savi 66 antillana Fawc. & Rendle 69 catjang Walp 66 luteola Benth 67 peduncularis Fawc. & Rendle 68 repens Kuntze (fig. 21) . 67 sinensis Endl 66 sinensis Rolfe .... 69 unguiculata Griseb. . . 69 unguiculata Walp. . . 66 vexillata A. Rich. ... 68 VineGungoPea . . . 54 Wait-a-bit . Walnut, Jamaica. West Indian Birch 94 273 206 West Indian Ebony \Y e s t Indian Lilac . West Indian L o c u Tree Whin White Bean . . . . White Candle Wood White Clover . . . White Lignum V i t aa White Withe . . . White Wood. . . . W i 1 d A k e e . . . . WildCashew . WildCassada . Wild Coffee. . . . WTild Hops .... Wild Indigo . . . Wild Liquor ice: Wild Oil Nut . . . WildOrange WildPoponax. Wild Rosemary . Wild Senna . . . . Wild Tamarind 138, PAGE 26 216 st . 121 13 . 64 . 192 . 14 . 244 . 233 . 269 . 215 . 223 . 312 . 104 . 75 16 43, 75 . 314 . 181 . 138 . 277 . 95 144, 148 Xanthoxalis corniculata Small 156 Langloisii Small . . . 156 Xylophylla angustifolia Sw. 262, 266 arbuscula Sw 264 contorta Britton . . . 263 elongata Jacq 262 epiphyllanthus Britton . 261 falcata Sw 261 latifolia Bot. Mag. . . 264 latifolia L 263 latifolia Siv 261 montana Bot. Mag. . . 262 montana Siv. 261 Yam B ean .... YearBean Yellow Balsam Yellow Candle Wood Yellow Hercules. YellowNickar. 70 64 279 108 172 92 Yellow Sanders . ZANTHOXYLUM L. . aculeatum Macf. . acuminaturn Sw. . aromaticum DC. . caribssum Hitclic. . clava-Herculis Sw. cribrosum Spreng. elephantiasis Macf. emarginatum Sw. . . 172, 174 170 178 179 171 172 172 173 171 178 INDEX 369 PAGE ZANTHOXYLFM — continual. Fa --arg 175 ilavum Vahl (fig. 56) . . 173 foli iff oblongo-ovatis dr. Unnnie .... 172 Hartii P. Wils. ... 177 iusulare Rose .... 174 jnmaicense P. Wils. . . 178 martinicense DC. . . 172, 177 negrilense Fawc. & Rendle 179 Pterota H. B. d K. . . 175 Ptcrota Macf. .... 174 ]>i(nctat/ini Vahl . . . 177 rhodoxylon P. Wils. . . 176 sapindoides DC. . . . 178 spinifex DC 176 spinosum Sw 178 Sumach ^Jriseb. 173 XANTHOXYLUM — continued. ti-nmtum Sw ..... trifoiuititm TJ ..... tri'foliatuin Wright . . Zoophthalmum .si//iy//i.s .1 . ZOKNIA J. F. Gmel. ... dipbylla Pers. (fig. 9) . . myriadfiia Jlmtli. ... reticulata Smith ... Sloanei Griseb. ... tetrapbylla Fawc. & Ren- die ...... ZYQIA Browne . ... arborescens &c. Browne . latifolia (fig. 46) Fawc. & Rendle ..... ZYGOPHYLLACI: 177 177 177 52 30 31 31 31 31 31 149 150 150 162 i\ 2 !. LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E. 1, AND GREAT WINDMILL STREET, W. 1. New York Botanical Garden Library QK231.F38V.4 gen Fawcett. William/Flora of Jamaica, conta 3 5185 00135 8744