206 



FLORA OF JAMAICA 



^m'sera 



122 (1906-1908). Pistacia Simaruba L. Sp. PI. 1026 (1753) ; 

 Descourt. Fl. Ant. ii. t. 97. Elaphrium Simaruba Rose in N. 

 Amer. Fl. .rxv. 246 (1911). (Fig. 68.) Type in Herb. Sloane in 

 Herb. Mus. Brit. ; Plukenet's specimen is also in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Red Birch, West Indian Bircli, Turpentine Tree, 

 Incense Tree, Mastic Tree. 



Sloane Herb. vi. 104, 105 ! Broughton 1 Skakspear 1 Swartz I Mac- 

 Jadyen; St. Andrew, McNabl King's House, J.P. 1153, Hart I near Hope, 

 Moore ! Spanish Town road, Campbell 1 Hope ; Westphalia road. Great 

 Goat Is.; Port Henderson; Harris \ Fl. Jam. 6299, 6768, 7357, 82'36, 

 8517, 9315, 10,151. — Florida and Keys, Bahamas, West Indies, Central 

 America, Tres Marias Is., Colombia, Venezuela. 



Tree 20-30(-60) ft. high; trunk thick to 3 ft. in diam. : larger 

 branches stout, spreading nearly at right angles ; bark an inch thick. 



Fig. 6S:.—Bursei-a Simq,ruha Sarg. 



A, Small leaf and inflorescence X ?• I-, Drupe, nat. size. 



B, Diagram of hermaphrodite flower. F, Stone cut lengthwise X H ; c, cotyle- 

 0, .Male flower X 4. dons ; r, radicle. 



D, Fertile flower x 4. 



(After Sargent.) 



with glandular dots, scaling off in thin peppery red-brown pieces. Leaflets 

 9-3 (13-i), oblong-ovate, acuminate, somewhat unequal-sided, oblique at 

 the base, entire, glabrous on both sides except at base of midrib beneath, 

 veins reticulate and prominent beneath, 6-8 (3-11) cm. 1. Flowers 

 appearing before the leaves or while they are still young, white ; panicles 

 many-fiowered, of male flowers to 17 cm, 1., of fertile flowers about half 

 as long. Male flowers : Calyx 5-lobed, 1-1 '5 mm. 1. Petals 5, 2*5-3 

 mm. 1., spreading, ovate-elliptical. Stamens 10, about as long as the 

 petals. Hermaphrodite flowers : Sepals and petals 3. Stamens 6, about 

 half as long as petals, with smaller anthers. Pisk sballowly-lob^d. 



