Flora of the British West Indian Islands / by A.H.R. Grisebach.

  • Grisebach, A. (August), 1814-1879.
Date:
1864
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Credit: Flora of the British West Indian Islands / by A.H.R. Grisebach. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    FLORA OF THE BRITISH WEST INDIAN ISLANDS. ♦ DICOTYLEDONS. I. RANUNCULACEAE. Flower-organs distinct from each other, the two inner whorls usually indefinite. Anthers adnate: cells extrorse or lateral. Embryo minute, included in the top of the endosperm. —Leaves sheathing, mostly dissected, without stipules. The sap contains an acrid, volatile principle, and alkaloids occur in the tribe of Hellebores. The Negroes bruise the leaves of Clematis dioica and apply it as a blister. {Pd.) 1. CLEMATIS, L. Sepals corolline, valvate, 4 (-8). Petals none. Achenia numerous, sessile, beaked by the elongated style.—Vines {rarely erect herbs), climbing by the petioles; leaves opposite. 1. C. dioica, I. Climbing, pubescent or glabrescent; leaves ternately divided : seg- ments ovate, entire; panicles polygamous; sepals cuneate-oblong, spreading, downy; carpels ellipsoidal, tapering into the long, plumose tail.—SI. t. 128. f. 1; Rich. Cub. t. 1.— C. americana, Mill. C. dominica, Lam. C. glabra, JDC. C. havanensis, Kill. C. pallida and Catesbyana, Rich. Cub. {non Pursh). C. acapulcensis, H.A. !: a form with shaggy car- pels. C. discolor, Gardn. / : a form with the leaves downy beneath.—A shrubby climber; leaf-segments lR'-2 long, variable ; sepals long, whitish ; carpels usually large, 2' -3' long.—Hab. Jamaica I, Mac/., List., Prd., Alex., common on the lower hills; Domi- nical, hnray; [Cuba ! and Mexico ! to the southern tropic in Brazil 1]. 2. C. caripensis, Kill. Climbing, glabrescent; leaves pinnatisect, or the divisions of the ternatisect petiole pinnatisect: segments usually 5, ovate, entire, glabrous ; panicles dicecious, puberulous ; sepals “oblong, pubescentcarpels ellipsoidal or elliptical-lanceolate. —Very similar to the preceding species, and not less widely distributed through the Con- tinent.—Hab. Trinidad!, Cr.; [Central America 1 to Brazil 1]. 2*. RANUNCULUS, L. Petals 5 (-15), with a nectariferous spot. Seed solitary, erect.—Herbs. 3*- R- repens, L. Perennial; stem furrowed at the top, branched ; leaves tripartite : segments cuneate, incisely toothed ; calyx spreading (or reflexed); carpels rounded, glabrous, marginate, beaked by the subulate, recurved or straightish style.—llchb. Ic. Germ. 3. t. 20. —Petals yellow. &. tropicus. Calyx reflexed; petals 5-10; beak of carpels straightish.—R. pnemorsus and Bonplandiauus, Klh. R. repens, Macf. I The Jamaica form, which, though growing on the highest mountains, Macfadyeu expressly mentions as introduced and escaped from a garden, is quite identical with various specimens from the Andes (viz. R. pnemorsus, from Quito: Benth. PI. Hartw. n. 875 ; the same from Peru ; It. Bonplandianus from Bogota : B