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FLOKA OF JAMAICA 



Coccoloba 



1. Bracts and ochrcohe small or minute. 



Inflorescence a panicle with branches distant from 



base; flowers small 1. 



Inflorescence a panicle with numerous branches in 



a cluster at base ; flowers large 2. 



Inflorescence a solitary raceme, or rarely 2 or 8 

 racemes. 

 Flowers sessile or subsessile (pedicels less than 

 1 mm. 1.). 



Kacemes not longer than leaves 8. 



Racemes longer than the leaves. 



Leaves roundish -elliptical, subcordate at 



base, drying a light brown or buff 5. 



Leaves elliptical, generally obtuse at base, 

 drying a dark brown. 



Venation obsolete (when dry) 4. 



Venation apparent. 



Veins inconspicuous 7. 



Veins conspicuous 6. 



Flowers evidently stalked (pedicels 1-8 mm. 1.). 

 Leaves broader than long, generally very large. 



Leaves glabrous 14. 



Leaves pubescent on nerves 13. 



Leaves longer than broad. 



Leaves membranous 15. 



Leaves more or less leathery. 



Leaves with rounded apex 9. 



Leaves not with a rounded apex. 



Leaves small not exceeding 8 cm. 1. 

 V' eins on upper surface only seen with 



a lens (when dry) 16. 



Veins on upper surface evident 11. 



Leaves large exceeding 8 cm. 1. 

 Leaves broadly elliptical. 



Racemes lax, not exceeding 10 cm. 



1.; nodules 1-flowered 3. 



Racemes dense, more than 10 cm. 



1. ; nodules 3-flowered 10. 



Leaves oblong -elliptical or ovate- 

 elliptical 12. 



2. Bracts and ochreolae large, bracts blackish, ochreolse 

 lax membranous. 



Leaves papery-membranous 17. 



Leaves leathery 18. 



Species insufficiently known 19. 



C. polystachya. 

 C. Flumierii. 



C. troy ana. 



C. Krugii. 



C. inrifolia. 



C. neglecta. 

 C. diversifolia. 



C. Uvifera. 

 C. pubescens. 



C. tenuifolia. 



C. laurifolia. 



C. Priorii. 

 C. Harrisii. 



C. zebra. 

 C. litoralis. 

 C. longifolia. 



C. venosa. 

 C. nigra. 



C. excoriata. 



1. Eueoeeoloba. Bracts and ochreolse small or minute. 



1. C. polystachya Wedd. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xiii. 261, 

 var. jamaieensis Fawc. & Bendle in Journ. Bot. li. 125 (1913) ; 

 twigs glabrous; leaves papery, roundish-elliptical, apex rounded, 

 base broadly subcordate or truncate, quite glabrous, nerves 

 slightly prominulous on upper surface, prominent beneath, veins 

 reticulate, prominulous on both sides, more conspicuous above ; 

 ochrese glabrous, somewhat lax, deciduous, with leaf attached 



