174 FLORA OF JAMAICA Zantlioxijlum 



diagram E on p. 557) ; Url. Stjrub. Ant. iv. 317; Fame, in Bull. 

 Bot. Dcp. Jam. ii: 73-74, with 4 figs. (Fig. 57.) 



Jamaican Satin Wood, Yellow Sanders. 



March ! Shearer \ Pedro, Grdbham \ Lacovia, Tomlinson\ Milk River, 

 Nixon ! Southfield, 1500 ft., Port Henderson ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6466, 

 7068, 10,150. Bermuda, Florida Keys, Bahamas, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, 

 St. John, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Marie-Galante, Martinique, St. Lucia. 



Shrub or tree, without spines or prickles, 10-35 ft. high; trunk 10-20 

 inches in diam. Leaves 1-3 dm. L, crowded at the ends of twigs, generally 

 with an odd leaflet; petiole -5-1 dm. 1. ; leaflets in 3-5 (1) pairs, opposite, 

 subsessile, ovate to lanceolate or elliptical- oblong, generally acuminate, 

 base rounded or obtuse, unequal-sided, 5-12 cm. 1., margin slightly 

 recurved. Pedicels 1-4 mm. 1. Sepals open in bud, triangular, papery, 

 puberulous-ciliate, about -5 mm. 1. Petals greenish-white, glandular, 

 3-4 mm. 1. Fruit : cocci obovate-roundish, 4-6 mm. 1. 



In hardness and grain the wood is like boxwood ; it is of a yellowish 

 colour and satiny lustre with a rippled pattern in longitudinal section, 

 and is capable of taking a beautiful polish. It is used for turnery, for 

 brush-backs, cabinet work, furniture, etc. Weight about 56 Ibs. per cubic 

 foot of the dry wood. 



2. Prickles, if present, straight or slightly recurved, generally 

 stipular on the branches. Leaves with petiole and rhachis 

 more or less winged ; leaflets opposite ; pellucid dots few, 

 mostly marginal, or wanting. Inflorescences of simple 

 or branched spike-like racemes, or of flowers solitary or 

 clustered ; pedicels, if present, thickened. Floral parts 

 in 4's. Carpels 2, or usually 1 in Z. insular e. Fruit of 

 1 or 2 nutlets. 



4. Z. insulare Rose N. Amer. Fauna xiv. 79 (1899): leaflets 

 crenate, narrowly elliptical or elliptical, lanceolate, obovate to 

 oblanceolate, 2 5-5 cm. 1. ; inflorescences several, lateral and 

 terminal; carpels 1, or occasionally 2 in terminal flowers; 

 coccus 1. P. Wils. torn, cit. 189. Z. Pterota Macf. Jam. i. 190 

 (1837) (excl. syn.) (non H. B. & K.). Fagara culantrillo Kr. & 

 TJrb. in Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 574 (1896). 



Port Royal Mts., &c., Macfadyen; Fairfield, Wullschlaegel ; Sheldon; 

 Robertsfield ; Yallahs Valley ; Tweedside, St. Andrew ; Mt. Lebanon, 

 2500 ft. ; Green Valley ; Pleasant Hill, 2500 ft. ; Watson's Hill, 1000 ft. ; 

 Malvern, 2200 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5157, 5193, 5202, 5263, 5294, 5371, 

 5516, 5544, 5605, 5611, 5661, 6130, 6301, 6507, 6528, 9662. Venezuela, 

 Colombia, Peru, Tres Marias and Socorro Is. 



We have not seen Rose's specimen from Maria Madre Is., but 

 according to P. Wilson it is specifically the same as the Jamaican plant, 

 and the species, he says, is found also in Socorro Is. and in northern and 

 western S. America. 



Tree, 20-30 ft. high, with corky conical knobs occurring sparingly at 

 base of trunk and on the lower limbs, very rarely with prickles on the 

 branches. Leaves 7-10 cm. 1. ; leaflets 7-15, unequal-sided, apex obtuse, 

 sometimes emarginate, base usually acute, turning blackish in drying, 

 generally glandular-dotted, sessile or subsessile. Inflorescence 4-10 cm. 1., 



