Dnjpetes EUPHORBIACEA: 2G9 



Muell. Anj. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 455 (with var.). Schaefferia 

 lateriflora Sw. Prodr. 38 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 329. (Fig. 87.) 

 Specimens of both sexes, collected by Swartz in San Domingo, 

 in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



White Wood, Guiana Plum. 



Wright ! Macfadyen 1 March 1 Ferry, near Spanish Town, Orahham ! 

 Green Valley and Berwick, Blue Mts. ; Ferry ; near Troy, 2300 ft. ; Great 

 Goat Is.; Harris \ FL Jam. 5190, 5252, 5316, 7355, 8154, 8709, 9331, 

 9481. — Florida and Keys, Bahama^, Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico. 



Tree 20-40 ft. high, or shrub 15 ft. high. Leaves oblong or elliptical, 

 apex acute or subacuminate, base obtuse, sometimes oblique, 6-11 cm. 1. ; 

 petiole 4-8 ram. 1. Pedicels 2-4 mm. 1. Male floivers : £)isA; tomentellous. 

 Stamens 3-5, sometimes two or three times as long as sepals; anthers 

 with connective narrowly winged between the cells. Oi/'ory tomentose. 

 Stigmas flattish, somewhat kidney-shaped on two short styles. Fruit 

 yellow, orange-scarlet, or brown, ovoid-globular, nearly 1 cm. 1. Seed 

 solitary, flattened-ellipsoidal, 5-7 mm. 1. 



The wood of this species is heavy, hard, brittle and close-grained, of a 

 rich, dark brown colour, with thick yellow sapwood ; a cubic foot of dry 

 wood weighs about 57 lbs (Sargent). 



Urban (tom. cit. 356) cites D. glauca Valil from Jamaica; quoting a 

 specimen from March. There is in Herb. Kew. a specimen from March 

 from Jamaica, named by Grisebach D. gla^ica. Vahl, but it is D. lateriflora 

 Kr. & Urb. 



2. D. alba Poit. in Mem. Mus. Par. i. 157, t. 7 (1815); 

 sepals 4-6, male oblong-ovate or elliptical, 1-1*3 mm. 1. ; 

 stamens much longer than the sepals ; o>'ary 1-celled ; fruit 

 incurved, with one stigma below the apex ; leaves entire or 

 slightly wavy with small teeth. — Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. 

 pt. 2, 455 (with vars.) ; Urh. in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 355 & Symh. Anf. 

 iv. 340. D. glauca Griseh. Cat. Cub. 15 (1866) (non VaJd). 

 D. incurva Muell. Arg. in Linnsea xxxii. 82 (1863). Liparene 

 alba Poit. 3IS. ex Baill. Etud. Euphorh. 608 (1858). Specimen 

 from Poiteau in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Macfadyen ! Knockalva, 800 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 7093.— Cuba, La 

 Tortue, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, Guadeloupe. 



Tree 15-60 ft. high. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-ovate and ovate, 

 shortly acuminate, apex obtuse, base wedge-shaped, sides often unequal 

 and base oblique, 5-12 cm. 1. ; petiole 6-8 mm. 1. Pedicels : of the male 

 numerous, nearly twice as long as the calyx ; of the female 5-12, in 

 flower as the male, in fruit shorter or longer than the fruit. Male 

 flowers : Stamens 3-6. Female flowers : Sepals 4-6, triangular, about 

 1 mm. 1. Ovary tomentose. Fruit white, obliquely ellipsoidal, narrowing 

 to the stalk to 1 • 3 cm. 1. 



3. D. ilieifolia Kr. & Urh. in Engl. Jahrh. xv. 352 (1892)-; 

 male sepals 4 or 5, outer roundish, inner narrower, ovate, shortly 

 puberulous outside, tomentellous inside, 2 • 5-3 mm. 1. ; stamens 

 not longer than calyx; ovary 1-celled; fruit subregular, with 

 1 stigma; leaves toothed, with a spine from each tooth. — Urb, 

 Symb. Ant. iv. 340 & vi. 89. Agrifolium folio &c. Shane Cat. 



