222 FLOKA OF JAMAICA Byrsonima 



on both sides, or upper surface pubescent at base of midrib, 

 lower surface pubescent on midrib, nerves and veins, or the 

 whole lower surface tomentose, 5-13 cm. 1. ; inflorescence tomen- 

 tose ; bracts : floral ovate or ovate-acuminate, tomentose, or 

 with silky hairs, or glabrescent, 2-4 mm. 1., at base of peduncle 

 linear, to 11 mm. 1. ; pedicels 8-12 mm. 1. ; petals yellow ; ovary 

 with adpressed silky hairs. — Mac/. Jam. i. 147 ; Griseb. Fl. Br. 

 W. Ind. 114. B. Berteroana A.Juss. in Ann. Sc. Nat. eer. 2, xiit. 

 333 (1840) & Arch. Mua. Par. Hi. 293 (184^) ; Niedenzu in Ind. 

 Led. Lye. Brunsh., Byrson. i. 6, (k Arh. Inst. Braunsh., Byrson. 

 ii. 4. B. cinerea DC. loc. cit. ; Griseb. loc. cit. B. crassifolia 

 H.B.K. vars. cinerea and jamaicensis Niedenzu in Arb, Inst. 

 Braunsh., Byrson. ii. 15 (1901); Small in N Amer. Fl. xxv. 168. 

 Tilise aflinis laurifolia &g. Sloane Cat. 136 & Hist. ii. 20, t. 163, 

 f. 1. Malpigia arborea floribus (fee. and M. ai-borea foliis ttc. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 230, 231 (excl. syn. Baccifera dc.). Mal- 

 pighia crassifolia L. Sp. PI. 426 (1753) (in part) ; Wright Mem. 

 274. M. coriacea Sw. Prodr. 74 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 854. 

 M. cinerea Pair, in Lam. Enycl. Suppl. iv. 7 (1816). (Fig. 74.) 

 Specimen from Browne in Herb. Linn. 



Locus-berry tree (Browne), Lotus-berry tree (Macfadyen), 

 Locust tree, Ho g-b erry tree. 



In fl. June-Aug. ; Sloane Herb. v. 69 and 92 (iii part) ! Broiimc ! 

 Wright ! Broughton ! Shakspear 1 Bancroft 1 Port Royal Mts., Macfadyen ! 

 also Pur die \ Guys Hill, McNabl Wilson \ Union Hill, Moneague, Prior ! 

 March ! J.P. 689, Jcnman ! J.P. 1291, Bot. Dept. I Green Valley, Port 

 lloyal Mts., Bot. Dept.l Berwick; Chesterfield; Lancaster, Portland, 

 2500-3000 ft. ; Mabess R. ; Olive R., 3000 ft. ; near Troy, 2000 ft. ; Harris ! 

 ri. Jam. 5226, 5321, 6828, 7406, 7699, 8411, 8755, 9393.— West Indies, 

 northern S. America. 



Tree 10-30 ft. high. Leaves : nerves and veins slightly prominent 

 beneath; petiole tomentellous, 1-1*5 cm. 1.; stipules ovate, blunt, 2*5-3 

 mm. 1. Inflorescence 5-9 cm. 1. Sepals ovate, somewhat puberulous, 

 about 4 mm. 1. ; glands about half as long. Petals : blade 4-5 mm. 1., 

 claw about as long. Anthers glabrous or with a few hairs. Drupe 

 globular, about 1 cm. in diam., edible. 



2. B. Craigiana Fawc. & Bendle in Journ. Bot. h. 270 (1917) ; 

 leaves broadly elliptical or roundish or obovate-elliptical, apex 

 rounded or very obtuse, base rounded or obtuse, leathery, glabrous, 

 4-7 cm. 1., 2-5 "5 cm. br. ; inflorescence brown-tomentose ; bracts 

 linear from an ovate base, brown-tomentose or glabrescent, about 

 3 mm. 1. ; pedicels 3-8 mm. 1. ; petals rosy-pink, drying purplish ; 

 ovary glabrous. — B. glaberrima Small torn. cit. 167 (1910) (non 

 Niedenzu). Type in Herb. Jam. 



In fl. May-July, in fr. Sept. ; near Troy, 2000 ft. ; Peckham, Clarendon, 

 2500 ft.; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9411, 10,976, 11,026, 11,042, 12,794, 12,802, 12,806. 



Tree 15-40 ft. high ; young twigs brownish-tomentose. Leaves brownish 

 when dry, young leaves with brownish hairs, adult leaves quite glabrous ; 

 lower surface of lighter colour than upper, midrib prominent, nerves not 



