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5. C. Krugii Lindaii in Engl. Bot. Jalirh. xUi. 145 (1890) ; 

 plant glabrous ; leaves leathery, roundish-elliptical, base sub- 

 cordate, nerves flat on upper surface, slightly prominent beneath, 

 veins finely reticulate beneath, not very conspicuous ; ochrese 

 adpressed ; racemes generally longer than the leaves ; nodules 

 generally 1 -flowered ; fruit pear-shaped, with the perianth-lobes 

 adpressed, about half the length of the fruit. Lindau in Urh, 

 Sijmh. Ant. i. 222. (Fig. 34.) 



In fl. July-Nov., in fr. Nov.-Feb. ; Great Goat Is. ; Yardley Chase, 

 1600 ft. ; Long Mountain, 900 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9335, 9667, 10,008, 

 10,014 ; Cross, Clarendon, Craig ! Bahamas, Porto Rico, Barbuda. 



Tree 15-20 ft. high, or shrub; branches ashen-grey, lenticels brown. 

 Leaves 3*7 cm. 1., 2-6 cm. br., inserted below the ochreee, yellowish or 

 brownish-yellow (when dry) ; petioles 4-7 mm. 1. Ochrcfv 4-8 mm. 1., very 

 thin, almost translucent, deciduous. PMcemes somewhat dense-flowered ; 

 peduncle -5-1 cm. 1.; bracts '75-1 mm. 1.; ochreolse scarcely longer than 

 the bracts ; pedicels to nearly 1 mm. 1. Flowers green. Perianth, tube 

 about -5 mm. 1., lobes elliptical, 1*5 mm. 1. Ovary 1 mm. 1. ; styles very 

 short. Fruit 5-6 mm. 1., 4-5 mm. br. 



6. C. diversifolia Jacq. Enum.Pl. Carib. 19 (1760); branches 

 glabrate ; leaves ovate or elliptical, apex rounded or shortly 

 acuminate, base acute to truncate, sometimes cordate, nerves and 

 veins prominent on both sides ; ochrese adpressed ; racemes 

 simple, lax-flowered, rhachis glabrous, nodules 1-2-flowered ; 

 ochreolae after the fall of the fruit persistent, well developed, 

 and somewhat flattened horizontally ; flowers subsessile ; fruit 

 ovate-ellipsoidal, base rounded, crowned by perianth-lobes. 

 Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Amer. 114, t. 76 & ed. pict, t. 113 ; Hooh. Exot. 

 Fl. f. 102 ; Meisn. torn. cit. 159 ; Lindau in TJrb. Symb. Ant. i. 223. 

 C. barbadensis Jacq. Eiium. PL Carib. 37 (1760) ct Observ. i. 18, 

 t. 8; Meisn. torn. cit. 153 ; Lindau in Engl. But. Jalirb. xiii. 148, 

 /. V. f. 16. C. punctata L. var. microstachya Griseb. Fl. Br. 

 W. Lid. 163 (tide specimen from Moneague, collected by Prior, 

 in Herb. Kew.). 



Red Grape, Wild Grape. 



In fl. April-July, Nov., Dec, in fr. Nov.-Feb.; WrigJit ; Broughtonl 

 Shakspear ! Macfadyen ! Wilson ! Moneague, Prior ! March ; Eggers ; 

 Providence Road, 700 ft. ; Brandon Hill, 1000 ft. ; Thompson ! near 

 Claverty Cottage ; David's Hill ; Content Road ; Sheldon ; Silver Hill ; 

 Cedar Hurst ; Charlton, near Ewarton ; Holly Mount, 2000 ft. ; near 

 Troy, 2000 ft.; Stony Hill, 1200 ft.; Peckham and Crofts Mt., Claren- 

 don, 2500 ft.; Harris I Fl. Jam. 5088, 5089, 5090, 5091, 5092, 5090, 

 5263, 5274, 5500, 6699, 6739, 8002, 8901, 9094, 11,133, 11,194, 11,219. 

 Bahamas, West Indies as far south as St. Lucia and Barbados. 



Tree 15-40 ft. high. Leaves attached just above base of ochrese, 5-12 

 cm. 1., 4-8 cm. br., on old branches much larger, glabrous; petioles 7-12 

 mm. 1. OcJirefV deciduous. Racemes longer than the leaves ; pedicels 

 8 mm. 1. Bracts about 1*4 mm. 1., upper half conical, apex rounded; 

 ochreoloe about 2 mm. 1. Perianth greenish, tube about 1 mm. 1., lobes 

 broadly elliptical, about 2 mm. 1. Fruit 8-10 mm. 1., perianth-lobes 

 2 mm. 1. 



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