Miscellaneous additions and revisions to the Flowering Plants of Jamaica

ICSCELLANBCUS ADDITIONS AND REHiSIONS TO THE FLOWERING PLANTS OP JAMAICA C. D* Adams ATERAMNUS (HJTHORBIACEAE) ATBtAMNUS GLANIUL060S (Sw. ) C. D. Adams, ccoib. nov. Excoecarla glandulosa Sw. , PI, Ind, Ooo. 2: 1124, 1800 TYPE: Sloane, between Town Savanna and Two Mile Wood, St. Catherine, Jamaica. Gymnanthes glandulosa (Sw. ) Mull. Arg. , Linnaea 32: 106. I863. Actinostemon jamaicensis Britten, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 39: 7. 1912. TYPE: Harris A Britton 10643. Grant' s Pen, St. ThcBUis, Jamaica. Gymnanthes jamaicensis (Britton) Urb, , Sjmb, Ant, 7: 5I6, 1915. Rothmaler (1944) determined Patrick Browne's Ateramnus foliis oblongis etc. (17^) as a validly published genus based on the generic©-specific description of the common Caribbean plant later known ajs Gymnanthes luoida Sw. Ateramnus P. Browne thus antedates a n d replaces Gymnanthes Sw. (I788) , the original description of which included Gypanthes lucida and G. elliptica Sw. Rothnaler transferred both these apecies to Ateramnus but whether he conoei-ved other generic distinctions or lacked sufficient material of Ju glandulosus to confirm the generic placing of that agpecies, he did not make that coabination. I have been unable to trace any subsequent publication of this ccoobination and have no reason to adopt any different concept fran that of Uiban (1913, "bove) or Fawcett A Rendle (1920), Ateramnus glandalosus is reported also fixjui Cubeu ATIKIA (STERCULIACEAE) AXBCLA LAE7IGATA Sw. var. ACUMINATA C. D, Adams, var. nov. Folia apice plerumqae acuminata, ^H om longa, 2-4*5 em lata. Type Collection: R, W, Bead 1909 (holotype UCWI ; isotype BM) , oollected on drier parte of slopes in limestone woods, Donkey Trail Hill, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, elcv. 1770 feet, 26 May I967. Paratype: R. A. Howard A G. R, Prootor 14384 (U), collected on dry rooky hillside, Ramgoat Cave District, Trelaomy Parish, Jamaica, elcv. ca. I5OO feet, 4 Jxily 1955; "Shrub of 9 feet with long scrambling branches ; fruit light green, 5**8ided, carpels with soft spines." This is one of the numerous Inlnnd vicariants of coastal or sublittoral species idiich are scattered so frequently and ao hap-Keader in Botany, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica. 309

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