Coccoloha POLYGOXACE.E 117 



5093, 5188, 6132. Cross, Clarendon, C?ai^ ! Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, 

 Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Cruz, Venezuela. 



Tree 25 ft. high or more, or a shrub. Leaves (in Jamaican specimens) 

 6-12 cm. 1., 4-8 cm. br., attached just above base of ochrese, petioles 

 1-1*5 cm. 1. Oclirex obliquely truncate, base peirsistent, more or less 

 deciduous above, 7-'J mm. 1. Racemes about as long as leaf, lax-flowered. 

 Perianth, tube about 1-5 mm. 1., shortly campanulate, contracted at base, 

 lobes roundish, about 2 mm. 1. Fruit about 1*4: cm. 1., 1 cm. br., lobes 

 3 mm. 1. 



" The wood is heavy, exceedingly hard, strong, brittle and close-grained 

 . . . and in Florida is occasionally used in cabinet-making" (Sargent). 



10. C. litoralis Urh. Si/mh. Ant. oi. 9 (1909) ; twigs glabi-ous ; 

 leaves large, broadly elliptical to roundish ovate, apex sometimes 

 very shortly and obtusely acuminate, the older leaves somewhat 

 cordate at base, nerves and veins on both sides preeminent ; 

 ochreje ample, glabrous, persistent, apex somewhat lax and 

 deciduous ; racemes long, 2 together, one terminal, the other 

 adjacent in axil of upper leaf, solitary in upper axils, nodules 

 senerallv 3-flowered, rhachis slabrous. 



In fl. March ; near the rocky sea-coast amongst Coco-nut palms, Xegril, 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 10,228. 



Tree 40 ft. Leaves attached above base of ochreoe, 20-14 cm. 1., 16-10 

 cm. br. ; petiole 1-1*5 cm. 1. Ochrese, persistent portion -5-1 cm. 1. 

 Racemes 13-33 cm. 1., dense-flowered. Pedicels 1-2-5 mm. 1., jointed near 

 apex. Perianth, tube scarcely 2 mm. 1.; lobes elliptical, 2*5 mm. 1., 

 scarcely 2 mm. br. Stamens as long as perianth-lobes. Fruit not seen. 



- 11. C. Harrisii Llndau in Urh. Sijmh. Ant. i. 228 (1899) : plant 

 glabrous; leaves elliptical or roundish-elliptical, shortly acuminate, 

 base rounded, nerves and veins on both sides prominent ; ochrea*, 

 apex somewhat lax and deciduous, base adpressed and persistent ; 

 nodules 1 -flowered ; pedicels 4 or 5 times as long as the bracts ; 

 fruit not seen. 



In fl. Feb., July, Nov. ; Vinegar Hill, Blue Mts., 3500-4000 ft., Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 5089, 5481, 7067. 



Tree 30 ft. high. Leaves 5-8 cm. 1., 3-4*5 cm. br. ; petioles 1-1-5 

 cm. 1. Ochrese about 1-2 cm. 1. Raceme lax-flowered, as long or a little 

 longer than the leaf; bracts and bracteoles '5 mm. 1.; jjedicels of fl. 

 1-5-3 mm. 1. Perianth, tube about 1 mm. 1., lobes roundish, about 

 2 mm. br., reflexed in flower. 



12. C. longifolia FIhcJi. ex Linclau in Engl. Bot. Jalirh. :ciii. 

 161 (1891); twigs glabrous, sometimes tomentellous ; leaves 

 large, oblong-elliptical or ovate-elliptical, acuminate, base rounded 

 or subcordate, nerves and veins prominent on both sides ; ochrea? 

 glabrous or sometimes tomentellous, adpressed but lax at apex ; 

 racemes somewhat lax-flowered : nodules 1 -flowered (sometimes 

 2-.3-flowered) ; rhachis minutely tomentellous or glabrate; pedicels 

 much longer than the ochreolae, ultimately spreading horizontally ; 

 fruit roundish-ovoid, perianth-lobes about one-third of length. 



