224 FLORA OF JAMAICA Byrsonima 



silky hairs ; bracts oblong or linear-oblong, glabrous, 4-6 mm. 1. ; 

 pedicels 7-13 mm. 1. ; petals purplish when dry; ovary glabrous. — 

 B. coriacea Small torn. cit. 167 (1910) (non DC). Type in Herb. 

 Wullschlaegel. 



In fr. Sept. ; Wullschlaegel ; New Green, near Mandeville, 2100 ft. (in 

 fr. only), Harris d Britton ! Fl. Jam. 10,595. 



Shrub or tree to 30 ft. high, glabrous in all parts, except a few hairs 

 on the inflorescence. Leaves : midrib a little prominent, nerves scarcely 

 prominent ; petiole glabrous, 4-8 mm. 1. ; stipules roundish, 1 mm. 1. 

 Racemes 3-6 cm. 1., at the end of twigs with several leaves, the leaves at 

 the end minute or bract-like and about 1 cm. from the lowest flowers. 

 Floiccrs scarcely 1*5 cm. in diam. Sepals ovate, glabrous, apex recurved, 

 about 5 mm. 1. ; glands slightly more than half as long. Petals : blade 

 3-4 mm. 1., 6 mm. br., claw 4-5 mm. 1. Filaments 3 mm. 1., with a few 

 hairs; anthers glabrous, 1*5 mm. 1. Drtipe globular, about 1 cm. in diam. 



The description of the flower is from Niedenzu. 



2. MALPIGHIA L. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves without glands, sometimes 

 with stinging hairs, margin entire or sinuate-dentate (in M. 

 coccigera) ; stipules minute, deciduous. Flowers in axillary and 

 terminal umbels or corymbs, rarely solitary. Calyx 6-10- 

 glandular. Petals red, or purplish, or white ; limb roundish. 

 Filaments glabrous. Styles 3, distinct, apex truncate or with 

 a foot-like appendage beyond the stigma. Drupe with the flesh 

 at length drying up, releasing 3 pyrenes, each with 3-5 dorsal 

 crests. 



Species 23, natives of the West Indies and tropical continental 

 America, 



§ 1. Margin of leaves entire. 

 Leaves glabrous. 



Leaves membranous or papery, 2-8 cm. 1. 



Umbels pedunculate 1. M. glabra. 



Umbels sessile or subsessile 2. M. punici folia. 



Leaves somewhat leather}', 7-12 cm. 1 7. M. Harrisii. 



Leaves with stinging hairs beneath. 



Umbels sessile or subsessile. Drupe subglobose. 

 Leaves to 20 cm. 1. Drupe to 1-5 cm. in 



diam 3. M. fucata. 



Leaves to 10 cm. 1. Drupe 8-10 mm. in 

 diam. 



Petals with keel not free at apex 4. M. urens. 



Petals with keel to 1 mm. br., free at apex 5. M. incana. 

 Umbels pedunculate. Drupe triangular- 

 pyramidal 6. M. biflora. 



§ 2. Margin of leaves sinuate-dentate with spines 8. M. coccigera. 



§ 1. Margin of leaves entire. 



1. M. glabra L. Sp. PI. 425 (1753) & Amoen. v. 379; leaves 

 glabrous, ovate-elliptical to lanceolate, sometimes elliptical, apex 



