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3. ZUELANIA A. Rich. Ess. Fl. Cub. 88. 1845. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate petioled serrate punctate leaves, and 

 small fascicled flowers, the pedicels jointed, bracted at the base. Calyx 4-5- 

 lobed, the lobes imbricated. Petals wanting. Stamens 20-40, alternating with 

 staminodia. Ovary superior; ovules numerous, on parietal placentae; stigma 

 almost sessile, peltate. Fruit a large globose fleshy, berry-like capsule, at 

 length dehiscent Seeds numerous, arillate, with fleshy endosperm. [Commem- 

 orates Jose Maria Valenzuela, a Cuban botanical collector.] One or t\vo West 

 Indian species, the following typical. 



1. Zuelania Guidonia (Sw.) Britton & Millspaugh. 



Laetia Guidonia Sw. Prodr. 83. 1788. 



Zuelania laetioides A. Rich. Ess. Fl. Cub. 88. 1845. 



Casearia laetioides Northrop, Mem. Torr. Club 12: 55. 1902. 



A tree, up to about 30 m. high, usually much smaller, the stout twigs 

 densely pubescent when young. Leaves thin, deciduous, oblong to oblong-lance- 

 olate or elliptic, 7-20 cm. long, low-crenate or nearly entire, strongly pinuately 

 veined, acute or acuminate at the apex, obtuse or rounded and mostly some- 

 what oblique at the base, glabrous or nearly so above, pubescent beneath, the 

 petioles 1 cm. long or less- fascicles many-flowered; pedicels pubescent, 6-10 

 rnm. long; sepals pubescent, suborbicular, about 7 mm. long; staminodia about 

 one-half as long as the stamens; fruit subglobose, 3-5 cm. in diameter. 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Abaco, Audros and New Providence : Cuba ; Jamaica. 

 ZUELANIA. 



4. CASEAKIA Jaeq. Enum. 4, 21. 1760. 



Shrubs or trees, sometimes spinescent, with alternate, mostly toothed and 

 punctate or lineate leaves, small stipules, and small regular green or yellowish 

 flowers in bracted, lateral fascicles or umbels, the pedicels jointed at or above 

 the base. Calyx-lobes 4-6, imbricated. Petals wanting. Stamens 6-15 ; fila- 

 ments distinct or united below, alternating with staminodia. Ovary superior; 

 ovules many, borne on parietal placentae; style short, undivided or 3-cleft; 

 stigma capitate. Capsule dry or fleshy, 3-4-valved, several-many-seeded. 

 Seeds with a fleshy aril, the testa coriaceous; endosperm fleshy. [Commemo- 

 rates John Casearius, a Dutch missionary of the seventeenth century.] Over 

 75 species, natives of tropical and subtropical regions. Type species: Casearia 

 nitida (L.) Jacq. 



Leaves ovate, glabrous, shining; flowers in stalked glabrous cymes. 1. C.bahamensis. 

 Leaves obovate to elliptic, pubescent at least when young ; cymes 



sessile or very nearly so, densely puberulent. 2. C. spinescens. 



1. Casearia bahamensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 322. 1902. 



A glabrous shrub or small tree sometimes 4-5 m. high, much-branched, 

 the twigs slender and terete. Leaves ovate to elliptic, subcoriaceous, 1.5-7 cm. 

 long, obtuse, acute or acuminate at the apex, obtuse or subcordate at the base, 

 crenulate, shining above, and finely reticulate-veined, the petioles 6-12 mm. 

 long; cymes axillary, peduncled, several-flowered; pedicels slender, 5-10 mm. 

 long; calyx about 5 mm. long, densely short-pilose within; stamens shorter than 

 the calyx; staminodia 1-1.5 mm. long, short-pilose; fruit subglobose, yellow, 

 5-6 mm. in diameter, 1-5-seeded. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, Andros, New Providence and Great Exurna : Cuba. 

 Recorded by Dolley as Caseuria serruhita Sw. SMOOTH CASEARIA. 



