270 FLORA OF JAMAICA Drypetes 



173 ife Hist. ii. 108, t. 188, f. 2. Malpighia aquifolia L. Amoen. 

 P. 379 (1759) & Herb, non % PI 426 (1753). Frutex Ilicis &c. 

 Urowne Hist. Jam. 372. Malpighia foliis lanceolatis li'C. Plum. 

 PI Amer. (Bitrm.) 160, /. 167,/. 2. 



Rose Wood. 



Don Christopher's Cove, Sloane Herb. vii. 40! St. James, Browne I 

 Grandvale, Westmoreland, Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 7089. 



Shrub 6-10 ft. high, or tree 30 ft. high. Branches with pale grey bark 

 covered with numerous roundish lenticels. Leaves ovate to oblong- 

 elliptical, apex narrowed, acute, ending in a short spine, base slightly 

 unequal, obtuse or acute, margin with large teeth (3-4 mm. 1.) ending in 

 a spine (2-4 mm. 1.), somewhat leathery, 7-15 cm. 1., 2 5-7 cm. br. ; 

 petioles 4-7 mm. 1. Pedicels 1-5-2-5 mm. 1., in fruit to 4 mm. 1. Male 

 floivcrs greenish, 4-10 in a cluster. Stamens 7-10; filaments scarcely 

 1 mm. 1. ; anthers opening outwardly. Female floioers not seen. Fruit 

 1-celled, somewhat obliquely ellipsoidal, narrowing to base, apex rounded, 

 tomentellous, l'5-2 cm. 1. ; stigma sessile. Seed solitary. 



4. HYERONIMA Allem, 



Trees scaly, sometimes with brownish hairs. Leaves alternate, 

 large, entire ; stipules usually small. Flowers small, dioecious, 

 without petals, in axillary panicles. Male flowers : Calyx campanu- 

 late, 3-6-toothed. Disk cup-shaped, outside the stamens. Stamens 

 2-5, opposite the teeth of the calyx. Rudiment of ovary small. 

 Female flowers : Calyx and disk like those of the male. Ovary 

 2-celled ; styles 2-3, very short, 2-cleft, spreading ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell. Fruit small, slightly fleshy with hard brittle endo- 

 carp, 2-celled with 1 cell empty. 8eed generally solitary, without 

 a caruncle. 



Species 13, natives of tropical America (including West 

 Indies). 



H. elusioides Muell. Arg. in Linnsea xxxiv. 66 (1865) k in DC. 

 Prodr. XV. pt. 2, 272; Urh. Symh, Ant. iv. 341. H. alchorneoides 

 Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 32 (1859) (non Allem.). Stilaginella 

 elusioides Tul. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xv. 245 (1851). (Fig. 88.) 



Wilson] near Moneague, Priori Tweedside, north St. Andrew, 3000 ft., 

 Harris ! John Crow (Blake) Mts., Harris d Brittonl Fl. Jam. 5814, 10,733. 

 — Porto Rico, Dominica, St.» Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad. 



Tree to 60 ft. high. Leaves with numerous scales on both surfaces, 

 elliptical, apex obtuse or acute, sometimes apiculate ; nerves and veins 

 slightly prominent on the upper surface, midrib and nerves prominent 

 and hairy beneath, veins usually not evident, 9-16 (7-20) cm. 1.; stipules 

 small, scale- like, about 1 mm. 1. , petioles 5-5-2 cm. 1. Panicle covered 

 with scales, lax-flowered in male, about 8 cm. 1. Male flowers green. 

 Pedicel about as long as the calyx, very scaly. Calyx about -7 mm. 1., 

 minutely 3-5-toothed, scaly-tomentellous outside. Disk about half as 

 long as the calyx, the margin with minute teeth and densely puberulous. 

 Female floioers: Calyx about -8 mm. 1., increasing to 1-3 mm. in fruit, 

 minutely toothed or wavy, scaly-tomentellous. Dish '4 mm. 1., margin 



