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ceolate, 4 to 7 mm, long; ijeduncles 2,5 to 6 cm. long; recep- 

 tacle torulose, aappcrting the calyx and corolla; sepals 4, 

 lanceolate, 5 to 8 mm, long; petals 4, long anguiculate, pur- 

 plish white; staaens and pistil supported on a central, roxxnd 

 column; stamens indefinite (8 to 50) with long slender fila- 

 ments; pistil also very long, the ovary 1-celled. 3erry sub- 

 globose, 3 to 4 cm. in diameter, orange yellow, pendulous; 

 seeds numerous, ovoid, blackish, 5 to 6 mm. in diameter. 



■Jescripti o n of the v/ood 



Sapwood thick, nearly white, but sometimes yellowish upon 

 exposure; heartwood yellow, often remoteyl resembling the 

 darker shades of yellow poplar, ./cod not very hard, modera- 

 tely light, not strong, very fine grained, easily worked and 

 not durable. Annual rings of growth clearly visible under 

 hand lens on a smooth transverse surface. 



Pores (transverse section) no J very numerous except in 

 the beginning of the early wood, smell (about ,12 mm. in dia- 

 meter)^ round or polygonal when isolate, open or often closed, 

 and arranged singly or in small groups of two and three. 

 Vessel walls (longitudinal section) with numerous bordered 

 pits of varied size. Perforations simple. V/ood fiber about 

 .95 rxa. long with few, simple, slit-like pits. .Vood paren- 

 chyma sometimes strongly developed in the early wood and in 

 the neighborhood of vessels, liays nu-nerous and plainly vi- 

 sible under hand lens on a smooth transverse surface, from 

 2 to 4 cells wide and from 4 to 8 times as high. 



Distribution, common names and uses 



This species is knovm i!^ Jamaica and in the low-lands of 

 easterli South America, from Brazil to Panama. In the last 

 country it has no known uses and no vernacular name has been 

 recorded. 



