



























158 



(■'• Lindan. 





Folio rum reticulo densiorc utrinque prominulo sublus laxiore, nervis primsiriis 

 magis palentibus, raccino gracillimo, 4 6 cm longo, rhachi lenuiore dislincta. 



Hah. in Puerto-Rico in montibus altis. 



(Species adsunt in herb. Gandoll., vicli iantuin ic. a cl. de Candolle cuminun.) 

 Obs, Species C. laurifoliae el barhadensi affinis. 







40. Coccololia lanrifolia Jacq. 



Ramuli glabri. Ochreae sublaxae, glabrae. Folia oblongo-ovala, utrin- 

 que obtusissima, nervis primariis utrinque prominentibus, nervulis promi*- 

 nulis dense reticulalo-venosa. Inflorescentia nodulis 1 — 3-floris ? rhachi 

 glabra. Bracteae, ochreolae minutae; pcdiccUi longi. Fructus ovoideus, basi 

 in sti|)item breveni contractus, apice rotundatus, lobis perianthii patulis 

 conspicuis. 



Coccoloba laurifolia Jacq. ITorl. Scboenbr. lit, 9 tab. 267 ; Lam. Encyc. Suppl. IV, 



652; Willd. enum. I, 431; Launay, Herb. gen. de famat. V, tab. 323; Meissn. Mon. Pol. 

 Prod. [). 33, tab. II, G et in : DC. Prodr. XIV, 165; Enough. Cat. I, 274; Link, Enum. I, 

 386; Giuseb. Fl. Br. W. I. LsL p. 4 62; Eggers, Fl. St. Cr. et Verg. n. 711; Ettingsh. Ape- 

 talen tab. 27 Fig. 3 el Fl. Bilin in: Denkschr. Wien. Ac. 26 tab. 24 Fig. 4. 



Coccoloba floridana Meissn. in: DC. Prodr. XIV, 165; Griseb. Cat. p. 61; Saitv. FL 

 cuh. p. 139; Chapman, FL S. U, St. 2. cd. 392 (vel Curtissitf). 



Coccoloba tenuifolia Eggers (non L.) Fl. St. Croix p. 442. 



Coccoloba leoganensh Eggers (non Jacq.) Fl. SI. Croix p. 142 et FL St. Cr. el 



Verg. p. 88. 



Uverillo Cubensibus (ex . SauvalleI), Uvillo (ex Stahl ! Krug!), Glateado (ex Gund- 



lach!), Uverillo (ex Sintenis!) Portoricensibus. 



Frutex (ex Eggers; Sintems!) vel arbor 2,5 — 42-melralis (ex Eggers, Sintkms, 



Jagquln !), ram is cinerascentibus, rimoso-angulatis, lenticellis ellipticis, fuscis; ramulis 



slriatis, glabris. Ocbreac oblique truncatae, 7 — 9 mm longae, sublaxae, glabrae, basi 



coriacea, diutius persistente. Folia petiolis supra plane canaliculatis, 



1 em longis, 



glabris, paullo supra basin ochreae insertis, ovata vel oblongo-ovala, utrinque obtu- 

 sissima, rarius apice breviter subacuminata et basi subanguslata, coriacea, 5 — 23 cm 



rr/k il 



longa, 3 — 15 cm lata, glaberrima, margine subplano, nervis lateralibus angulo 50 70 

 abeuntibus, decurrentibus, usque ad marginem fere subrcctae, primariis utrinque pro- 

 minentibus, nervulis prominulis dense reticulato-venosa. 1 n f loresce n tia terminalis, 

 racemosa laxillora, foliis subaequilonga, nodulis 4. — 3-11oris, pedunculo 4—2 cm longo 

 rhachique glabris, in sicco sulcatis; bracteae squamiformes, minutae, ad infimum no- 

 duhim lineares vel spathulatac, ad 3 mm longae; ochreolae minutae; pcdicelli 11.1 

 41/2 mm longi, horizontaliter divaricati, fr. 3 mm longi, erassiusculi. Flores albido- 

 virescentes (ex Meissner!). Perianthii tubus campanulato- infundibuliformis, basi 

 stipitiformiter contractus, circa I'/^mm longus; lobi scmiorbiculares, circa 2 mm longi, 



in anthesi ± recurvati. Fi lamenta subulata, 2 mm longa vel breviora, erecta, antheris 

 exsertis vel inclusis. Ovarium oblongum, trigonum, circa 3 / 4 mm longum ; shli 3, 

 lilamenta subaequantia vel multo breviora, stigmatibus sublobatis in anthesi exsertis vel 

 inclusis. Fructus ovoideus, basi in stipitem brevem contractus, apice rotundatus, lo- 

 bis perianthii patulis conspicuis, circa 12 mm longo, 7 mm diametro, pericarpio car- 





noso, viridi (ex Eggers!), laevi (Fig. 23.). Semen globosum, ± acuminatum, 3 -sul- 

 cata m, partibus 4 -sulcatis, testa fusca, nilida, crassa, Crustacea. (Fig. 23 a .) Cotyle- 

 (1 on es obcordatae, basi paullo emarginatae, lobis apice breviter acutis, planae, adpressne, 

 3 mm longae, 4 mm latae; radicula cotyledonibus circa 2-plo brevior. 



