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rising above 5 or 6 feet. This species, like C. Uvifera, is low-growing in 

 Jamaica, but according to Jacquin rises to a height of 60 or 80 feet in 

 Martinique. He describes the wood as red, heavy, very hard, easily 

 splitting, and almost indestructible, and says it is used for stakes, piles 

 and beams, that it lasts for centuries without showing any decay, and 

 that part which is buried in the earth becomes changed into the hardest 

 stone. 



14. C. Uvifera L. Sij.sf. ed. 10, 1007 (1759); twigs tomen- 

 tellous ; leaves roundish to reniform, generally broader than 

 long, nerves immersed or scarcely prominent on upper surface ; 

 ochreae ample, lax, tomentellous, base persistent ; rhachis tomen- 

 tellous, nodules 1-4-llowered. Jacq. Enum. PL Carib. 19, S'l. 

 Stirp. Amer. 112, t. 73 S: Ed. plot. t. 110; Hooh. But. Miq. 

 L 3130 : Melm. Mon. Pol Prodr. 8, 32, t. I. f. 4, It B, V. f. 1 

 ife in DC. Prodr. xiv. 152 ; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ltd. IGl ; Llndau 

 in Engl. Bot. Jdhrh. xiii. 204, t. v. f. 50, 50a, 50?>, ct in TJrb. 

 Sijmb. Ant. i. 231. Prunus maritima el'c. Shane Cat. 183 A: 

 Hist. a. 129, /. 220, /. 3-5 ; Cate.sb. Carol. I!. 96, t. 96. Uvifera 

 litorea &c. Pluk. Aim. 394 & Phyt. t. 236, /. 7. Coccolobis 

 foliis crassis orbiculatis etc. Browne Hist. Jam. 209. Gujabara 

 racemosa &c. Plum. Ovied. lib. 8, caj). 13 A: PI. Amer. {Bnrm.) 

 136, t. 145. Coccolobis uvifera Sara. Silv. vi. 115, tt. 298, 291). 



Sea-side Grape. 



On sea-shore ; Sloane Herb. vii. 69 ! Broughton ! Macfadyen ! Mammee 

 Bay ; sea-coast near St. Ann's Bay ; Prior \ March ; Seemann ; Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 5978. Bermuda, Cayman Is., Bahamas, West Indies, eastern 

 shores of tropical continental America. 



Small tree, 6-15 ft. high, or shrub. Leaves 8-14 cm. 1. or larger, 

 leathery, attached on base of ochrese (-5-1 cm. 1.). Racemes somewhat 

 dense-flowered, as long as, or longer than, the leaf. Flowers white. 

 Perianth, tube 1*5 mm. 1., lobes ovate, about 2 mm. 1. Fruit ellipsoidal, 

 2 cm. 1., including the stalk-like base (2-3 mm. 1.) ; lobes about 4 mm. 1. ; 

 pericarp fleshy, edible, blue-black or purplish. Seed semiglobose, deeply 

 3-furrowed. 



This species grows to 45 ft. high on the shores of continental America. 

 The wood is hard, takes a fine polish, and is used for ornamental work. 

 The fruit is eaten by children, but is so astringent that it should be taken 

 with caution. West Indian or Jamaican Kino is prepared from this 

 species. Wright (Mem. 265) says " the bark is reckoned an excellent 

 astringent in watery purgings and in dysenteries after the inflammatory 

 symptoms have been abated." 



15. C. tenuifolia L. Si/st. ed. 10, 1007 (1759) ; leaves 

 membranous to subcoriaceous (when dry), elHptical, sometimes 

 very shortly acuminate, nerves slightly prominent beneath, veins 

 not conspicuous, stalks tomentellous ; ochrea? tomentellous ; 

 racemes dense-flowered, slender, longer than leaves, rhachis 

 tomentellous, nodules 1-3-Howered, pedicels short ; fruit sub- 

 globose, with lobes about one-third length of fruit. L. Anuvn. 

 V. 397 (1760) ; Faiuc. d' Bendle in Jonrn. Bot. li. 124. C. jamai- 

 censis Lindau in Ewjl. But. Jahrb. xiii. 206 (1890) tV: in Urb. 



