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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Bur sera 



122 (1906-1908). Pistacia Simaniba L. Sp. PL 1026 (1753) ; 

 Desconrt. FI. Ant. it. t. 97. Elaphrium Simaruba Hose in N. 

 Amer. Fl .c.cv. 246 (1911). (Fig. 68.) Type in Herb. Sloane in 

 Herb. Mus. Brit. ; Plukenet's specimen is also in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Red Birch, West Indian Birch, Turpentine Tree, 

 Incense Tree, Mastic Tree. 



Sloane Herb. vi. 101, 105 ! Brounhton ! Shakspear ! Swartz \ Mac- 

 fadyen ; St. Andrew, McXab ! King's House, J.P. 1153, Hartl near Hope, 

 'Moore ! Spanish Town road, Campbell ! Hope ; Westphalia road, Great 

 Goat Is.; Port Henderson; Harris I Fl. Jam. 6299, 6768, 7357, 8236, 

 8517, 9315, 10,151. Florida and Keys, Bahamas, West Indies, Central 

 America, Tres Marias Is., Colombia, Venezuela. 



Tree 20-30(-60) ft. high ; trunk thick to 3 ft. in diam. : larger 

 branches stout, spreading nearly at right angles ; bark an inch thick, 



A, Small leaf and inflorescence X . 



B, Diagram of hermaphrodite flower. 

 (.', Male flower x 4. 



D, Fertile flower x 4. 



(After Sargent.) 



Fig. 68. Bin-sera Simaruba Sarg. 



E. Drupe, nat. size. 



F, Stone cut lengthwise X 1* ; c, cotyle- 



dons ; r, radicle. 



with glandular dots, scaling off in thin papery red-brown pieces. Leaflets 

 9-3 (13-1), oblong-ovate, acuminate, somewhat unequal-sided, oblique at 

 the base, entire, glabrous on both sides except at base of midrib beneath, 

 veins reticulate and prominent beneath, 6-8 (3-11) cm. 1. Flowers 

 appearing before the leaves or while they are still young, white ; panicles 

 many-flowered, of male flowers to 17 cm. 1., of fertile flowers about half 

 as long. Male flowers : Calyx 5-lobed, 1-1 '5 mm. 1. Petals 5, 2 '5-3 

 mm. L, spreading, ovate-elliptical. Stamens 10, about as long as the 

 petals. Hermaphrodite flowers : Sepals and petals 3. Stamens 6, about 

 half as long as petals, with smaller anthers. Disk sballowly-lobed. 



