Coccoloba POLYGONACE.E 1*21 



Hort. Jam. i. 78; Desconrt. FI. Ant. v. 17-^, /. ."352; Mei.sn. in 

 DC. Prodr. xiv. 168; Grixeh. op. rit. 163; Lindau in Urb. Sijiuh. 

 Ant. i. 233 (excl. syii. 0. c.vcoriata L.). C punctata L. Sp. PI. 

 ed. 2, 523 (1762). C. excoriata Lindau (noii L.) in Eiujh Bot. 

 Jahrh. xiii. 211. Uvifera arbor americana, convolvulacea, fructu 

 aromatico puiictato Pink. Aim. 39 1, /. 237, /. 4. Coccolobis 

 foliis ohlongo-ovatis veiiosis, uvis miiioribus punctatis Broicne 

 Hist. Jam. 210. 



Chequered Grape Tree (Browne), Chigery Grape Tree 

 (Hughes), Raisinier de coudre (Jacquin). 



Browne ; Sicarts. West Indies. 



jPn'c 20-30 ft., with white hardwood, branches ash-grey. Leaves 8-SO 

 cm. 1., 4-9 cm. br. ; nerves 8-12 on each side ; petioles 5-8 mm. 1. Ochrex 

 about 1 cm. 1. Racemes to 15 cm. 1., shortly stalked. Flowers yellowish. 

 Berries edible, sweet. 



We have seen no specimen from Jamaica, nor any record of its occur- 

 rence there since the time of Swartz. A leaf named C. nivea Jacq. in 

 Herb. Mus. Brit, from Jacquin's herbarium, proves the identity of this 

 species with C. venosa L. Both Jacquin and Swartz describe the racemes 

 as more or less erect, but in the specimens seen they are more or less 

 pendulous as described by Lindau. We are indebted to Mr. J. R. Bovell, 

 Superintendent of the Barbados Agricultural Department, for the loan of 

 specimens in flower and fruit from Barbados. 



18. C. nigra Fawc. <( Bendle in Journ. Bot. li. 124 (1913); 

 plant glabrous ; leaves leathery, narrowly elliptical to lanceolate, 

 shortly stalked, apex obtuse, base obtuse, nerves and veins pro- 

 minulous on both sides, veins netted with small meshes ; ochrea? 

 lax, ovate, not tubular, persistent ; racemes very dense-flowered, 

 erect, terminal, shorter than the leaves ; nodules several flowered ; 

 rhachis black ; bracts triangular, leathery, ochreolas 2 lobed, 

 mucronate, translucent ; pedicels short ; perianth with very short 

 tube ; fruit not seen. Type in Herlj. Edinb. 



"Jamaica," fide Grisebach ms. in Herb. Edinb. without name of 

 collector. 



Leaves 6-10 cm. 1., 2-5-4 cm. br. ; petioles 4-5 mm. 1. Ochrex 8 mm. 1. 

 Racemes 7 5 cm. 1. Bracts 1*5-2 mm. 1.; ochreolie 3 mm. 1. Pedicels 

 about 1 mm. 1. Perianth about 3 mm. 1., tube less than 1 mm. 1., lobes 

 elliptical, 



19. C. exeoriata L. Sijat. rd. 10, 1007 (17."')9). This species 

 is known to us only from a leaf-bearing twig from P. Browne 

 from Jamaica in the Linnean Herbarium, so named in Linnjvus's 

 handwriting. A stout shoot (apparently a young sucker) 1 4 

 cm. 1. and "O cm. thick with white bark and brown lenticels ; 

 leaves 7*5-10 cm. 1., 6-7 cm. br., broadly elli^^tical, very shortly 

 acuminate, base sometimes unequal, rounded, nerves on botli 

 sides prominulous, veins inconspicuous, dark brown on upper 

 surface, light brown beneath ; petioles and ochreas pubcrulous ; 

 ochrese dark brown, broadly tubular, truncate, 1 cm. 1., perma- 

 nent base 57 mm. I., leaf inserted about middle of permanent base. 



