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FLOEA OF JAMAICA 



Protium 



Stamens 8-10, inserted at base of disk. Disk 8-10 crenate, 

 annular or cup-shaped in hermaphrodite flowers, flat-convex in 

 male flowers. Ovary 4-5-celled ; style varying in length ; stigma 

 4-5-lobed. Drupe globular or ovoid, often apiculate with the 

 persistent style, composed of 1-5 cocci, each 1-celled, 1-seeded. 

 Species about 50, natives of the tropics, chiefly American. 



P. attenuatum Urh. Symh. Ant. vii. 240 (1912). — Icica 

 heptaphylla Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 173 (1859) (in part) (non 

 Aubl.). Protium guianense Engl, in Fl. Bras. xii. pt. 2, 271 (1874) 

 & in DC. Mon. iv. 72 (in part) (non March.). P. guianense March. 

 var. Oliver in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1571 (1887). Icica attenuata Bose 

 in N. Amer. Fl. xxv. 261 (1911). (Fig. 69.) 



Fig. 69,— Protium attenuatum Urb. 



A, Leaf with portion of panicle in fruit C, Ditto with calyx and petals 



X J. removed 



B, Flower X 4. D, Pistil and disk X 4. 



E, Ovary cut across x 4, 

 (After Oliver in Hook. Ic. PI.) 



Wright I in Herb. Kew. — Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia,. 

 St. Vincent. 



Leaves, common petiole, 2-8 cm. 1., flattened above, petiolules more or 

 less thickened at the apex, lateral '6-1 "2 cm. 1., terminal l"5-3 cm. 1.; 

 leaflets 5-7 (3) ovate, ovate-elliptical, or elliptical-oblong, acuminate, base 

 more or less oblique in lateral leaflets, 7-13 cm. 1., 3-5 "5 cm. br. ; nerves 

 and densely reticulated veins prominent on both sides, leathery, glabrous. 

 Panicle 3-5 cm. 1., glabrous, branching from the base ; pedicels 2-3 mm. 1. 

 Calyx : lobes 5, shortly triangular. Petals 5, 2*8-3 mm. 1., green, ovate- 

 lanceolate, margin densely and minutely tomentose. Stamens 10, fila- 

 ments 1-2-1 -5 mm. 1. Disk fleshy. Ovary glabrous; style very short; 



