316 



ri/niA or JAMAICA 



Acidocroton 



A. verrueosus Urb. Symb. Ant. vii. 513 (1913). (Fig. 104.) 



j'Peckham Woods, Clarendon, Harris ! Fl. Jam. 11,018. 



Tree about 12 ft. high ; branches ash-coloured, covered with minute 

 warty excrescences, and bearing in the axils of the primary leaves cushion- 

 like contracted branchlets covered with short spine-like stipules and the 



B 



E 



Fig. 104. Acidocroton. 



(F-J, A. adelioides Griseb. 



F, Male flower x 2. 



G, Stamens, back and front X 10. 

 H Female flower X 2. 



I, Coccus X 2. 

 J, Seed x 2. 



(A-E, A. verrueosus Urb.) 



A, Part of branch showing cushion-like 



branchlets with male flowers x 5. 



B, Male flower X 3. 

 '. Stamens X 10. 



D, Obconical process between the stamens 



X 10. 



E, Part of a cushion-like branchlet, show- 



ing the scars of the fallen leaves and 

 the stipules X 5. 



bases of petioles. Leaves (on cushions) 1*5-2 '5 cm. 1., 5-9 mm. br., 

 obovate-elliptical to elliptical-oblong, very obtuse at apex, narrowed below 

 into the petiole, (when dry) papery, midrib on upper surface impressed, 

 beneath prominent, nerves not conspicuous ; petiole 3-5 mm. 1. ; stipules 

 spiny, 1-2 mm. 1. Male flowers only seen in bud, proceeding from the 

 topmost cushion-like branchlets. Pedicels 3 mm. 1. Sepals semioval or 

 semiroundish. Petals 5, free, ovate-roundish. Stamens 20, inserted on a 

 disk-like receptacle between obconical fleshy processes which are hairy on 

 the apex ; filaments free ; anthers introrse, erect, with an awn at apex as 

 long as, or half as long as, the anther. 



