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rimoso, ad comam sine ramifieatione, ligno saturate rubro, durissimo, ad aedificandum 

 idoneo (ex Jacquin!). Rami vctustiores angulati, glabri; ramuli regulariter sulcati, 

 novelli longe viridil'usco-hirsuti. Ochreao usque ad basin fissae, marginibus sub- 

 rotundatis, usque ad 30 mm longae, apicc mcmbranaceae, basi cbarlaceae, fusco-tomen- 

 tosao, amp'lac, ovanidae. Folia petiolis brevissimis vcl ad 10 mm longis, crassiusculis, 

 supra subplanis, pubesccntibus, ad basin ocbreae inscrlis, late eordata, apicc obtusa vel 

 suborbicularia basi eordata, 12-50 em longa, 8—60 em lata vel majora, coriacea, iimr- 

 Jne piano, utrinque hirsuto-pubescentia vel dciuuin supra glabrata, ncrvis bitcralibus 

 ungulo 40—50° abeuntibus, rectis, ad marginem arcuatis, primariis supra imprcssis 

 subtus valdc promincntibus , nervuiis utrinque subprominulis dense reticulato-venosa. 

 Inllorcscentia terminalis, solitaria, raceniosa, donsillora, t'oliis minoribus aequi- 

 longa, sed saepe usque ad 65 em longa (ex Eggers!), purpurea (ex Eggers!), pedunculo 

 circa 15 mm longo rhachiquc minute puberulis , nodulis 1— 3-floris; bracteae triangu- 









lares, apice obtusac, accurrentes, '/ 2 mm longae, pubescentos; ocbreolac braclcam 

 aoquantes, membranaceae, bilobae; pcdicclli fl. circa 3 mm longi, horizontaliler divari- 

 cati, minutissime puberuli. 1- lores albi (ex Eggers!). Perianthii tubus circa V 2 mm 

 longus, late subcampanulatus; lobi 1 mm longi, ovati, in anthesi retlcxi. Filamcnta 

 lobos subaequantia , tiliformia , erccta, anlhcris longe exsertis. Ovarium oblongum, 

 trigonum, '/ 2 mm longum ; st>li 3, ovario breviores, stigmatibus lobatis. Fructus 

 immaturus globosus vel ovoideus, obsolete trigonus, lobis apicc conniventibus con- 

 spicuis, circa 5 mm diamctro, pcricarpio crustacco. 



Hab. in Antillarum silvis montosis in Sto. Domingo: Egukrs 

 n. 2559, 2562, Pall oe Wlrtkmberg ; Puerto Rico: Krug n. 936, Sintenis 

 n.5925, Gondlach n. 1499; Guadeloupe: L'Hermiihbh, Duchassainc; ; Mar- 

 tinique: BElang^r, Sieber, herb. Haun.; Antigua: Wullsciilagkl; Bar- 

 buda: Ponthiki;; Barbados: Eggers n. 7158; in Mexico: Sciuede, herb. 

 Petrop.; in Guyana batava: Kegel n. 1339 (ex Meissner!); loco non 

 indicato: Nvst. n. 677. 



Floret Aprili. (v.s. in herb.Berol., Boiss.-Babb. , Candoll., Deless., Getting., Ilaun., 



l„,l< nt Hun Mnn Pntrnn Vind.. WlLLD. herb. n. 7606.) 





100. Coccoloba rugosa Desf. 



Hamuli glabri. Ochreae ampliatae, glabcrrimae. Folia dcltoideo- aut 

 ovato-orbicularia, apice obtusa, basi cordalo-amplexicaulia, bullata, ncrvis 

 supra impressis, subtus valde promincntibus, nervuiis supra inconspicuis, 

 subtus subplanis punctato-venosa. Inflorescenlia nodulis 2— 8-floris, rhachi 

 minute pubcrula. Pcdicelli ochreola mullo longiores. Fructus ovoideus, 

 obscure trigonus, basi in stipitem brevem contractus, apice acuminatus, 

 lobis perianthii arete adpressis, conspicuis. 



Coccoloba rufjosa Desf. Cat. hort. Par. 3.ed. p. 389; Wedd. in: Ann. sc. nat. 3. scr. 

 Mil, 262; Walp. Ann. Ill, 290; Meissm. in: DC. Prodr. XIV, 152; Giuseb. Carib. n. 324; 

 Eggers, St. Croix et Verg. n. 710; Fl. des serres VII, 160. 



Coccoloba macrophylla Desf. in: Bot. Mag. 76 tab. 4536; Walp. Ann. Ill, 287; Lem. 

 .lard. Fl. I tab. 47; Fl. des series VI p. 267 tab. 617; Lindl. et Paxt. Flow. gard. I, 



191 f. 94. .'....'..' - - 



' * Coccoloba macrantha Stkud. Norn. I, 390. 



Coccoloba bullata, magnifolia Desf. in: herb, Mus. Par. (ex Weddell!). 



Ortcgon Portoricensibus (ex Eggers, Sintenis !,. 





