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MoDOgrupliia generis Coccolotme. 151 









orbicularia, apice rotundata, basi in petiolum angusle decurrentia, ± 6 cm longa, d 

 4 cm lata, coriacoa, marginc piano, utrinque glabcrrima et lucida, subtus pallidiora, 

 nervis lateralibus angulo 50 — 70° abeuntibus, subdecurrentibus, usque ad marginem sub- 

 rectis, arcu simplici connexis, primariis nervulisque paucis utrinque grosse prominenti- 

 bus laxo reticulato-venosa. Inf lore seen tia in ramulis terminalis, solitaria, spicifor- 

 mis, folia superans vel bicvior, pedunculo ± \ cm longo rhachiquc glabris, teretibus, 

 nodulis 1 — 2-floris; bracteae triangulares, apice obtusae, accurrontes, circa i/ 2 mm 

 longac; ochreolae recte truncatae, bracteam aequantes membranaceac; pedicelli brevis- 

 simi, postea ad 4V 2 mm longitudine accrescentes, horizontal iter divaricati. Flores 

 albi (e\ Wright!). Perianthii tubus subcampanulatus, vix 1 mm longus; lobi sub- 

 semiorbiculares, tubum aequantes vel superantes, in anthesi recur vati, Filamenta 

 subulata, dimidium loborum aequantia, antheris exsertis. Ovarium oblongum, tri- 

 gonum; styli 3 breves post anthesin longe exserti, stigmatibus sublobatis. 



Hab. in Cuba: Wright n. 2251, 2252; in Sto. Domingo: Poiteau. 

 (Dubium mihi est, an hoc specimen ad C. retusam pertinent-) 



Floret Junio. (v. s, in herb. Boiss.-Bakb., Candoll., Deless., Gutting., Holm., Krug. 

 ct Urb., Pctrop.) 



Forma acuminata Lindau. 



Diflert tantum foliis apice hrevileracuminatispaullo majoribus et pcili- 

 cellis rructiferis paullo brevioribus, circa 1 mm longis. Fructus immalunis 

 obovoidcus, apice lobis perianthii adpressis subito coronalus (Fig. 17). 



C. tenuifolia Griskr. Fl. Br. W. I. Isl. p. 1 62 et Cat. p. fil; Kggers, St. Croix p. 14 2. 

 C. tenuifolia Griseh. var. foliis supra nitidis Giusf.h. 1M. Wright, p. 175. 



Hab. in Cuba: Wright n. 1668, 1668". 



(v. s. in herb. Boiss.-Barb., Brux., Candoll.) 



30. Coccoloba WrigHtii Lindau spec. iiov. 



Hamuli fusco-tomentelli. Ochreae fusco-tomentellae, adprossac. Folia 

 ovata, apice obtuso-acuminata, basi in petiolum angustata, nervis primariis 

 utrinque prominentibus, nervulis paucis grosse prominulis laxissime reti- 

 culato-venosa. Inflorescentia nodulis \— 3-floris, rhachi breviter fusco- 

 tomenlella. Pedicelli ochrcolam 3-plo superantes. Fructus ovoideus, obtuso- 

 trigonus, basi subcontractus, apice rotundatus, lobis perianthii conniventi- 

 bus conspicuis. 



Coccoloba tenuifolia Griseb. (non L.) pr. p. Cat. p. 61 et Fl. Br. W. I. Isl. p. 162. 



F rn lev ramis longe propendentibus (ex Wright !), sulcatis, subrimosis, glabris ; ra- 

 mulis substriatis, fusco-tomentellis. Ochreae circa 5 mm tongae , adpressae, fusco- 

 tomentellae, cvanidae. F o 1 i a poliolis supra canaliculatis, cvanesccnter fusco-tomenlel- 



li s> ± 5—7 mm longis ad basin ochreae insertis, ovata, apice obtuso-acuininatci , basi in 



petiolum angustata, 6 — 1 cm longa, 3—6 cm lata, corincea, novella subcoriacea et nigres- 

 centia , margine subreeurvo, glabcrrima, nervis lateralibus angulo 30—*0° abeuntibus, 

 decurrenlibus, usque ad marginem subrectis, arcu connexis, primariis utrinc^e pro- 

 minentibus, nervulis paucis grosse prominulis laxissime reticulato-venosa. Inflores- 

 centia terminalis, racemosa, laviflora, foliis aequilonga, pedunculo 3— 8 mm longo, 

 fusco-loincntello, rhachi breviter fusco-tomcntella, saepe ad apicem versus glabrata ; 

 bracteae triangulares, acutae, circa 3/ 4 mm longae, puberulae; ochreolae bracteis breviores 















