[From the Hi iii iin op ih« Tokkry Botanical Ci.uk, 37: 345-363- i9 10 -] 



Studies of West Indian plants — III 



Nathaniel Lord Britton 



12. thewestindianspeciesofcomocladiap.br. 



Comocladia* P. Br.; L. Syst. ed. 10, 861. 1759 

 Type species: Comocladia pinnatifida L. 



1. Leaves entire or undulate. 

 A. Glabrous species. 



a. Lateral leaflets distinctly stalked. 



1. Comocladia pinnatifida L. Syst. ed. 10, 861. 1759 



Comocladia integrifolia Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 12. 1760. 



Type locality: Jamaica. 



Both names are based wholly on P. Browne, Hist. Jam. 124, 

 where the generic name is printed Comocladia. Browne refers 

 to Sloane's description and figure of "Primus racemosa, caudice 

 non ramosa" (Hist. Jam. 2: 131. pi. 222. f. 1); the illustration 

 there given is not wholly satisfactory for the plant which has been 

 taken for this species, but which is here accepted as usually 

 interpreted. 



Distribution: Moist woodlands at middle and lower eleva- 

 tions throughout Jamaica; Haiti and Santo Domingo. 



*The spelling of the generic name was changed by Linnaeus to Camocladia, but 

 this form is here regarded as a typographical error, although it was continued by 

 Linnaeus, in the second edition of Species Plantarum, and in successive editions of 

 the Systema, but was changed back to the original by Gmelin (Syst. ed. 13. I79 1 )- 

 The original spelling was accepted by Jacquin, by Swartz, and by most subsequent 

 authors. 



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