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G. Li i) dan. 



Coccolobis foliis cordato-oblongis , raceme terminally caule arboreo Plum. Am. PI, 



tab, 4 46 Fig. 4. 



? Coccolobis montana, major arborea, foliis subrotundis, cor t ice /aew Brown, Jam. 210. 



? Arbor indica, glycyrrhisae foliis subrotundis etc. Pluk. amnlth. 22 tab. 363 Fig. 4. 



? Uvifera arbor Americana fructu punctato Pluk. Phyt, tab. 237 Fig. 4. 



Calambrenas Portoricensibus (ex Sintenis!); Guar ape Domingensibus (ex Eggers I); 

 Checquered Grape Tree Guyanensibus (ex Schomburgk !); Raisinier de coude (ex Jacquin !); 

 Petit raisinier Martinicensibus (ex HahnI), 



Arbor e recta, ligno albido, duro (ex Jacquin !), 5 — 13-metralis (ex Jacquin, Sin- 

 tknis, Eggers, Lejeune!), multi-truncatus (ex Eggers!), ramis subrimosulis, cinereis, 

 quasi excorticatis (?), lenticellis orbicularibus, verruculosis; ramulis striatis , glabris, 

 dilute fuscis. Ochreae 1 — 8 cm longae, longe acuminatae, membranaceae, basi sub- 

 coriacea diutius persistente, glabrae, laxae, evanidae. Folia petiolis supra canalicu- 



25 mm longis , glabris, paullo supra basin ochreae insertis, oblongo-ovata vel 

 oblongo-obovata , apice acuminata, basi angustata et levjter cordata vel subrotundata, 

 7 — 25 cm longa, 4 — 13 cm lala vel majora, subcoriacea, glaberrima, margine piano vel 

 anguste reflexo, nervis lateralibus angulo 75 — 90°abeuntibus, subdecurrentibus, arcuatis, 

 ad marginem connexis, primariis supra semiimmersis, subtus acute prominentibus, ner- 

 vulis utrinque tenuiter prominulis densiuscule reticulato-venosa. Inf I o rescentia 

 in ramulis terminalis, foliis media longitudine aequilonga, racemosa, pendula, nodulis 

 pluritloris, pedunculo brevirhachiqueglabrisangulatisque; bracteae triangulares, acutae, 

 accurrentes, nigrescentes, circa s /t mm longae; ochreolae bilobae, bracteam duplo supe- 



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rantes, laxae, membranaceae; pedicelli tenues, ochreolis breviores, patentes, subrellexi. 



latis, 5 



Flores tlavescentes (ex Sintenis!). Perianthii tubus brevissimus; lobi ovati, 



circa \ V2 mm longi, in anthesi reilexi. Filamenta subulata, lobis aequilonga, erecta, 

 antheris exsertis, albis (ex Sintenis!). Ovarium oblongum, trigonum, \ mm longum; 

 styli3, dimidium ovarii aequantes, stigmatibussublobatis. Fructus ovoideus, trigonus, 

 apice acutus, basi subito rotundatus, perianthii lobis arctissime adpressis, usque ad 

 basin fructus fere conspicuis, 6 mm longus, 5 mm diametro, edulis, dulcis (ex Jacquin!) 

 (Fig. 53), pericarpio crustaceo, albo (ex Krug!). Semen 3-sulcatum, partibus 1-sulcatis, 

 testa nitida, cornea, dilute fusca. Cotyledones orbiculares, utrinque profunde 

 emarginatae, lobis rotundatis, 3 mm longae, 3 mm latae; radicula dimidium cotyledonum 



aequans. • .■ - - 



Hab. frequens in India occidental! in Sto. Doming o: Eggers 

 n. 2682, Poiteau et Turpin, Mayerhoff ; in Puerto Rico: Sintenis n. 1942, 

 2083, 2215, Eggers n. 425, Krug n, 934, Schwanecke, WydLer n. 347; in 



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St. Thomas: Kreus, Orstedt, IIiendlmayr, Crlby, Moll; in St. Croix 

 Ravx, Poiteau, Eggers ; in St. B a r t h e 1 e in y : Forsstrom ; in M art i n i q u e 

 Hahn n. 338, 967, 1082, Belanger n. 1181, PEre Duss; in Guadeloupe 

 L'Hermwier, Bertero, Duchassaing; in Trinidad: Crueger n. 2688 ; in 



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Antigua: Wullschlagel n. 491; in Tobago: Eggers n. 5894; loco non 

 indicato: Vahl, Eggers n. 222, Liebmann, Swartz in herb. Candoll.(?); semel 



reperta in Brasilia e prov. Rio de Janeiro: Widgren. 



Floret Junio-Septembri, frucU Octobri. (v. s. in herb. Berol., Boiss.-Barb., Brux., 

 Gandoll., Deless., Gutting., Haun., Holm., Krug. et Urb., Lips., Mon., Petrop., Vind., 



Willd, n. 7697.) . ...... . . . d 



