204 FLORA OF JAMAICA Huftlandia 



KEY FOR FRUITS. 



Leafy trees or shrubs. 



Fruit without a cupule 1. Hufelandia. 



Fruit with a cupule. 



Perianth-segments persistent in fruit. 



Segments enlarged only at base, not 

 lengthened. 



Fruit globose, or pear-shaped (edible). 



Leaves pinnately-nerved 3. Per sea. 



Fruit ellipsoidal. Leaves subtripli- 



nerved in Jamaican species 4. Phcehe. 



Segments enlarged generally. 



Cupule flat Ocotea florihunda. 



Cupule cup-shaped Ocotea staminea. 



Perianth-segments deciduous in fruit. 



Cupule bell-shaped, hemispherical, 2- 



margined 2. Misanteca. 



Cupule saucer-shaped or flat, 1-margined... 5. Ocotea, or 



6. Nectandra. 

 Twining parasitic herbs. Fruit enclosed by the enlarged 



persistent perianth 7. Cassytha. 



1. HUFELANDIA Nees. 



Perianth, tube very short ; segments 6, subequal ; the whole 

 perianth deciduous in the fruit. Stamens 9 ; anthers 2-celled ; 

 glands large, roundish ; staminodes large, cordate-sagittate. 

 Berry ellipsoidal, without a cupule ; pedicel somewhat thickened. 



Species 7 or 8, natives of tropical America, one species 

 occurring in the West Indies. 



H. pendula Nees Plant. Laiir. 22 (1833) & Sijst. 188; 

 3Ieisn. in DC. Prodr. xv. ^A. 1, 65 ; Griseh. Fl. Br. W. hid. 280 ; 

 Mez in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. v. 20, t. II. f. 2, III. f. 8, 25, 25a ; 

 Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 243. H. Thomc^a Nees Plant.' Lmir. 23 d t. 

 (1833) & Sijst. 189. Laurus pendula Siv. Prodr. 65 (1788) & 

 FL Ind. Occ. 719. Beilschmiedia pendula Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PL Hi. 152 (1880) ; Fawc. FL PL Jam. 33. B. Thom^a Benth. 

 & Hook. f. loc. cit. (1880) ; Faicc. loc. cit. Laurus foliis obverse &c. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 214. (Fig. 83.) 



Slog-wood or Slug- wood; Laurier madame (Dominica) . 



In fl. March-Sept.; in fr. Sept., Nov., Feb.; Sivartzl Caley\ Mac- 

 fadyen ! St. Mary, Purdie ! March ! Browns Town, Prior ! Silver Hill ; 

 Spanish River ; Doll Wood ; Whitfield Hall, 4350 ft. ; Troy, 16C0 ft. ; 

 Harrisl near Mandeville, 2100 ft., Harris & Brittonl Fl. Jam. 5286, 5326, 

 5575, 9447, 10,591. Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Kitts, Montserrat, 

 Guadeloupe, Dominica, iNIartinique, St. Lucia. 



Tree 20-45(-60) ft. high. Leaves elliptical, base wedge-shaped, apex 

 generally shortly acuminate, areolate on both sides, nerves prominent 

 beneath, slightly puberulous beneath when young, at length glabrous on 

 both sides, 5-16 cm. 1 , 2-5-5 cm. br. Panicles lax, few-flowered. Flowers 



