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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Lasiocroton 



Field Columh. Miis. Bot. ii. 156. Crotoii macrophyllus Sw. Prodr. 

 100 & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1196. (Fig. 96.) 



Wrightl Salt-pond Hill, Bioughtonl March \ Great Pedro Bay ; 

 Grant's Pen near Albion Estate, Harris ! also Harris d Britton ! Fl. Jam. 

 <J714, 10,742, 11,651, 11,710, 11,868. 



Shrub or tree to 25 ft. high. Young twigs, leaves, inflorescence, parts 

 of flowers, and capsules densely tomentose and soft to the touch. Leaves 

 crowded at the apex. Inflorescence racemose, flo\yers monoecious, on 

 separate branches, occasionally with a female flower on the male inflores- 

 cence. Male inflorescence suberect or spreading, 3-4 cm. 1.; peduncle to 



Fig. 96, 



A, Part of branch with female in 



florescence X 3. 



B, Male flower X 5. 



C, Stamens X 10. 



Lasiocroton macrophyllus Griseb. 



D, Female flower, ovary ripening x 4. 



E, Coccus X 2. 



F, Seed x 2. 



2 cm. 1. Male flowers growing together in close clusters, the older flowers 

 developing pedicels and dropping off probably soon after opening. Calyx 

 globular while unopened. Stamens 8-13 ; filaments short, partially united 

 at the base; anthers attached at a point about the middle. Fruiting 

 racemes spreading or pendulous, -5-1 "5 dm. 1. Pedicels 8-4(-2) mm. 1. 

 Fruiting cahjx 2-3 mm. 1. Capsule 5 mm. 1. Seeds dark olive-grey with 

 blackish markings, 3 mm. in diam. 



Specimens from Bahamas ( IFiZsojt 7833) and Cuba {Shafcr 25M) with 

 young male flowers only have been referred to this species, but appear to 

 us to be different. 



2. L. Faweettii Urh. Symh. Ant. vl. 14 (1909); leaves 15- 

 26 cm. l.j oval-elliptical, acuminate, base obtuse or somewhat 



