120 FLUKA OF JAMAICA Coccoloba 



Symh. Ant. i. 232. C. leptostac'hyi)ides Llndau in Entjl. Bot. 

 Jahrh. .via. 207 (1890). Coccolobis? frutescens &c. /. 14, /. 3, 

 Brawne Hist. Jam. 210. Type in Herb. Linn. 



Fl. July-Sept., fr. Sept.-Nov. ; above Bull Bay, Br oivucl Sioartz\ Mt. 

 Fcarawav, Blue ]\Its., J. Watt\ Falls River; Berwick Hill; Green Vallev, 

 Blue Mts. ; Malvern, 2200 ft; Long INIountain, 700 ft. Fl. Jam. 50b7, 

 5228, 5272, 5343, 5391, 6517, 8862, 9809. 



Leaves 3-11 cm. 1., 2-8 cm. br. ; stalks to 1 cm. 1. Ochrex to 1*5 cm. 1., 

 lower half tubular. Eacemes to 24 cm. 1., terminal on young branches ; 

 pedicels to nearly 2 mm. 1.; bracts triangular to -75 mm. 1., ochreolae 

 tubular, to -5 mm. 1. Perianth, tube about 1 mm. 1., lobes roundish, 

 1*5-2 mm. 1. Fruit 5-0 mm. 1., 4 mm. br. ; lobes 1-5-2 mm. 1. 



IC. C. Priorii Faivc. & Bendle in Journ. Bot. //. 124 (1913); 

 leaves small, stalked, leathery, glabrous, elliptical, shortly 

 acuminate, base obtuse or rounded, nerves on upper surface flat, 

 beneath prominulous, veins inconspicuous above, netted with fine 

 meshes and flat beneath ; ochreas glabrous, somewhat lax, 

 persistent, tubular below, 2-toothed at apex ; racemes about as 

 long as the leaves, geminate or solitary, terminal, erect, lax- 

 flowered ; rhachis, bracts, ochreohe, pedicels and perianth 

 minutely tomentellous ; nodules 1 -flowered ; bracts and ochreolae 

 minute ; pedicels jointed at top, much longer than bracts ; 

 fruit. ... C. tenuifolia Griseh. o]j. cit. 162 (1859) non L. Type 

 in Herb. Kew. 



Prior ! 



Leaves 4-8 cm. 1., 2-4 cm. br. : petioles 7-12 mm. 1. Ochres 8-12 mm. 1. 

 Bacemes 4-8 cm. 1. Bracts and ochreolse scarcely -5 mm. 1. Pedicels 

 2 mm. 1., horizontal. Perianth, tube 2-3 mm. 1., lobes 1*5-2 mm. 1. 



2. Campderia. Bracts and ochreolae large ; ochreolae lax, 

 membranous. 



17. C. venosa L. Si/st. ed. 10, 1007 (1759); plant quite 

 glabrous ; leaves papery-membranous (when dry), shortly stalked, 

 elliptical, narrowed to both ends, often somewhat obovate, apex 

 shortly acuminate, abruptly subacute, base obtuse or emarginate, 

 shiny (fide Jacquin), nerves with well defined arches near the 

 margin, flat or semi-immersed on the upper surface, prominulous 

 beneath, veins reticulate, slightly prominulous on both sides ; 

 ochrese membranous, apex long-acuminate, deciduous, base 

 adpressed, persistent ; racemes terminal and lateral, shorter or 

 longer than the leaves, dense-flowered, more or less pendulous, 

 bracts several-flowered ; flowers shortly stalked ; perianth with 

 very short tube ; fruit a triquetrous, black, shining nut enveloped 

 in the white succulent perianth.- Fawc. & Bendle in Journ. Bot. 

 li. 123. C. nivea Jacq. Enum. PI. Carih. 19 (1760), Sel Stirp. 

 Amer. 115, t. 78 t Ed. pict. t. 115; Sw. Prodr. 64 & Fl Ind. 

 Occ. 693; Hughes Hist. Barb. 179; Maijc. Fl. Barh. 156; Liin. 



