172 FLORA OF JAMAICA Zantlwxylum 



Haiti) (non Willd.). Fagara elephantiasis Kr. & Urb. in Encjl. 

 Jalirb. xxi. 564 (1896). 



Yellow Sanders. 



Macfadyen; Prior ! Green Valley, J.P. 1453, Morris 1 Port Royal Mts., 

 Bot. Dept. ! St. James, Dewar \ Green Valley ; Sheldon road ; Chester 

 Vale, 3000 ft. ; Old England, Blue Mts., 3000 ft. ; Berwick, 2500-3000 ft. ; 

 Grandvale, Westmoreland, 500 ft. ; Negril, sea-coast ; Peckham, Clarendon, 

 2500 ft. ; Harris \ Fl. Jam. 5104, 5189, 5192, 5401, 5471, 5499, 5663, 6310, 

 6534, 6688, 6772, 7054, 10,018, 10,221, 11,198. Cuba, Hispaniola, Mexico, 

 Costa Rica. 



Tree 15-40 ft. high, with corky conical spiny knobs, if present, only at 

 the base of the trunk. Brandies without spines. Leaves with an odd 

 leaflet, 1-2*5 dm. 1. ; leaflets in 5-6 (2-8) pairs, opposite or nearly so, ovate- 

 elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, somewhat acuminate, base more or less 

 unequal-sided, 5-10 cm. 1. ; petiolules 3-6 mm. 1. Panicles with corky 

 wrinkled rhachis. Pedicels 1-2*5 mm. 1., increasing to 5 mm. in fruit. 

 Sepals 5, imbricate in bud, roundish, leathery, not corky, 1'3-1'S mm. 1. ; 

 1-5-2 mm. br. Petals 5, 5-6 mm. 1., elliptical or elliptical- oblong. Male 

 flowers : filaments 5, about as long as the petals ; ovary rudimentary. 

 Fruit : cocci with glandular dots forming tubercles, usually 5, obovate or 

 subobliquely orbiculate, 6-8 mm. 1. ; stalks 3-8 mm. 1. ; diverging star- 

 like from one another. Seeds nearly as long as the cocci. 



2. Z. martinieense DC. Prodr. i. 726 (1824) ; dioecious ;. 

 twigs, leaves, and inflorescence puberulous with simple hairs ; 

 leaflets entire or slightly crenate, with pellucid dots at the margin 

 and several scattered on the leaflet ; floral parts in 5's ; carpels 

 5; cocci 5-2, more or less united below. P. Wils. torn. cit. 194. 

 Z. foliis oblongo-ovatis &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 189. Z. clava- 

 Herculis Sw. Obs. Bot. 375 (1791) (non L.) ; Lun. Jam. ii. 95 ; 

 Wright Mem. 240; Macf. Jam. i. 194; Griseb. loc. cit. (excl. syn. 

 Descourt. & Lam.). Z. caribseum Hitchc. in Hep. Miss. Bot. 

 Gard. (1893), 68 (non Lam. according to Urban). Euonymo 

 affinis arbor spinosa tfec. Sloane Cat. 138 & Hist. ii. 28, t. 172. 

 Fagara martinicensis Lam. Tabl. Encyc. i. 334, n. 1639 (1791) & 

 III. t. 811, /. 1; Poir. in Lam. Encyc. Suppl. ii. 627; Urb. in 

 Engl. Jalirb. xxi. 564 (1896) (with diagram C on p. 557), & 

 Symb. Ant. iv. 316 ; Bull. Dept. Agri. Jam., new ser., i. 22 & 

 photo (1909). 



Prickly Yellow, Yellow Hercules. 



Sloane Herb. v. 102*, 103, 104 ! Browne ; Brougliton \ Green Valley, 

 Port Royal Mts., Macfadyenl St. Mary, McNabl Manchester mountains, 

 Purdie ! Wilson ! Moneague, Prior ! March ! Lucea, Hitchcock ; near 

 Cinchona, Bot. Dept. ! near Sheldon ; Berwick, 2500 ft. ; Green Valley, 

 1800 ft. ; Hall's Delight ; Yallahs Valley ; Robertsfield, 2000 ft. ; near 

 Troy, 2000 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5275, 5293, 5360, 5399, 5501, 5599, 6687, 

 6689, 7712, 9092. West Indies. 



Tree 20-40(-80) ft. high ; trunk to 3 ft. and more in diam., with 

 numerous corky conical spiny knobs (to 1'5 cm. 1. and br.) ; twigs with or 

 without prickles (2-4 mm. L). Leaves 1-3 dm. 1., with or without an odd 

 leaflet ; petiole, rhachis, and midrib puberulous ; with or witout small 

 prickles on the rhachis and on the midrib of the leaflets beneath ; leaflets 



