I 1 70 FLORA OF JAMAICA Drypctcs 



17.. cv ///*/. il. 108, /. 188, f. 2. -Malpi^hia aquifolia L. Amain. 

 <-. 379 (1759) ^ Herb, non Sp. PL 426 (1753). Frutex Ilicis etc. 

 Browne Hixt. Jain. .'172. Malpighia foliis lanceolatis <tc. Plum. 

 PI. Amer. (Bnrm.) 160, f. 167, /.'i'. 



Rose Wood. 



Don Christopher's Cove, Sloane Herb. vii. 40 ! St. James, Browne \ 

 Grandvale, Westmoreland, Harris ! PL Jam. 7089. 



Shrub 6-10 ft. high, or tree 30 ft. high. Branches with pale grey hark 

 covered with numerous roundish lenticels. Leaves ovate to oblong- 

 elliptical, apex narrowed, acute, ending in a short spine, base slightly 

 unequal, obtuse or acute, margin with large teeth (3-4 mm. 1.) ending in 

 a spine (2-4 mm. L), somewhat leathery, 7-15 crn. L, 2 5-7 cm. br. ; 

 petioles 4-7 mm. 1. Pedicels 1-5-2-5 mm. L, in fruit to 4 mm. L Male 

 flowers greenish, 4-10 in a cluster. Stamens 7-10 ; filaments scarcely 

 1 mm. 1. ; anthers opening outwardly. Female flowers not seen. Fruit 

 1-celled, somewhat obliquely ellipsoidal, narrowing to base, apex rounded, 

 tomentellons, 1-5-2 cm. 1. ; stigma sessile. Seed solitary. 



4. HYERONIMA Allem. 



Trees scaly, sometimes with brownish hairs. Leaves alternate, 

 large, entire ; stipules usually small. Flowers small, dioecious, 

 without petals, in axillary panicles. Male flowers : Calyx campanu- 

 late, 3 6-toothed. Disk cup-shaped, outside the stamens. Stamens 

 2-5, opposite the teeth of the calyx. Rudiment of ovary small. 

 Female flowers : Calyx and disk like those of the male. Ovary 

 2-celled ; styles 2-3, very. short, 2-cleft, spreading; ovules 2 in 

 each cell. Fruit small, slightly fleshy with hard brittle endo- 

 carp, 2-celled with 1 cell empty. Seed generally solitary, without 

 a caruncle. 



Species 13, natives of tropical America (including West 

 Indies). 



H. elusioides Muell. Arg. in Linnsea xxxiv. 66 (1865) & in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 272 ; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 341. H. alchorneoides 

 Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 32 (1859) (non Allem.). Stilaginella 

 elusioides Tul. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 245 (1851). (Fig. 88.) 



Wilson ! near Moneague, Prior ! Tweedside, north St. Andrew, 3000 ft., 

 Harris ! John Crow (Blake) Mts., Harris & Britton\ PL Jam. 5814, 10,733. 

 -Porto Eico, Dominica, St. Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad. 



Tree to 60 ft. high. Leaves with numerous scales on both surfaces, 

 elliptical, apex obtuse or acute, sometimes apiculate ; nerves and veins 

 slightly prominent on the upper surface, midrib and nerves prominent 

 and hairy beneath, veins usually not evident, 9-16 (7-20) cm. 1. ; stipules 

 small, scale-like, about 1 mm. 1. , petioles 5-5-2 cm. 1. Panicle covered 

 with scales, lax-flowered in male, about 8 cm. 1. Male flowers green. 

 Pedicel about as long as the calyx, very scaly. Calyx about -7 mm. L, 

 minutely 3-5-toothed, scaly-tomentellous outside. Disk about half as 

 long as the calyx, the margin with minute teeth and densely puberulous. 

 Female flowers: Calyx about '8 mm. L, increasing to 1-3 mm. in fruit, 

 minutely toothed or wavy, scaly-tomentellous. Disk -4 mm. L, margin 



