296 BLAKE: REVISION OF MAHOGANIES 



Type Locality: La Trinidad de Maracay, Venezuela. 

 Specimens Examined: 



Venezuela: La Trinidad de Maracay, altitude 440 meters, State 

 of Aragua, January 31, 1913, Pittier 5789 (type). 



Distinguished from 5. mahagoni by its larger leaflets, longer 

 petiolules, larger flowers, and larger fruits and seeds; from 5. 

 macrophylla by its mostly smaller, paler, and thinner leaflets, 

 and longer and more slender petiolules. 



5. Swietenia mahagoni Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 20. 1760. West 

 Indian Mahogany. 



Cedrela mahagoni L. Syst. ed. 10. 940. 1759- 



Cedrus mahogani Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. no. 2. 1768. 



Swietenia mahogoni Desr. ; Lam. Encycl. 3: 678. 1791. 



"Swietenia fabrilis Salisb. Prodr. 317. 1796." 



Suitenia acuiifolia Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. 2: 479. 181 2. 



Swietenia mahogani C. DC. Mon. Phan. i: 730. 1878. 



Tree; branchlets gray or fuscous brown, lenticellate ; leaves abruptly 

 pinnate, with 2 to 6 pairs of leaflets, or rarely odd-pinnate ; petiole 3 to 

 6.5 cm. long, the rachis 2 to 14 cm. long; leaflets 3.5 to 6 (rarely 7.5) 

 cm. long, 1.3 to 2.5 (rarely 3.3) cm. wide, elliptic to ovate, acute to 

 acuminate, with a terminal cusp 3 mm. long or less, cuneate to rounded 

 at base, papery or chartaceous, prominulous-reticulate on both sides, 

 paler green beneath; petiolules slender, 2 to 7 mm. long; panicles 4 to 

 8 cm. long (including the 2 to 4 cm. long peduncle) ; pedicels 2 to 4 mm. 

 long; calyx 0.8 to i mm. long, 5-lobed about one-third its length, the 

 lobes semicircular, broadly rounded, erose, glabrous; petals yellowish, 

 2.5 to 3 mm. long, obovate-oblong, broadly rounded, glabrous; staminal 

 tube glabrous, its teeth deltoid, acutish; disk about one-third as long 

 as ovary; style as long as ovary; stigma narrower than ovary; fruit 

 ovoid, broadly rounded at apex, 4.5 to 7 cm. long, 3 to 5 cm. thick, 

 grayish brown, verrucose, dehiscing from the base or from both ends;^*^ 

 seeds 2 to 4 cm. long, i to 1.3 cm. wide, deep chestnut-brown. 



Type Locality: Bahama Islands. 

 Specimens Examined: 



Florida: Lignum Vitae Key, 1877, Garher; 1892, Simpson 485. 

 Coral soil. Umbrella Key, Cnrtiss 411. 



Bermuda: Flatts Village, 1905, Harshberger. 



Bahama Islands: Crow Hill, Andros Island, 1910, Small & Carter 

 8743. Nassau, Providence Island, 1913. 



Cuba: Without locality, Wright 1153. Cayo Sabinal, Camagiiey, 

 1909, Shafcr 1105. La Gloria, Camagiiey, 1909, Shafer 37Q. Cayo 

 Coco, Camagiiey, 1909, Shafer 2723. South of Holguin, Oriente, 1909, 

 Shafer 1342. 



^^ See ROLFE, Kew Bull. 1919: 203. 1919. 



