326 FLORA OF JAMAICA Sapium 



V. 235. Excoecaria cuneata Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 

 1208 (1866). 



Macfadyen; Pur die ; Moneague, Priori March; Potsdam, 2600 ft.; 

 Croft's Mt., Clarendon, 2500 ft. ; Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 9817, 11,214. 



Tree to 40 ft. high, glabrous. Twigs with scars of fallen leaves. Leaves 

 8-15 cm. 1., elliptical-obovate, apex rounded or apiculate, base wedge- 

 shaped, margin entire, sometimes bearing glands and usually two above 

 the base of the limb, papery ; nerves not more than about twenty on each 

 side, 4-8 mm. apart, slightly prominent ; petiole 1-2 cm. 1., without glands ; 

 stipules roundish-ovate. Spikes numerous, in the axils of leaves, 5-7 cm. 1. 

 Bracts ovate or triangular, with small teeth, longer than the glands and 

 covering the female calyx. Male flowers : Calyx 2-lobed, red. Stamens two ; 

 anthers red. Female flowers : CaZyx 3-lobed. Ouory glabrous. Styles 2-3, 

 only very shortly united at base. Capsule somewhat more than 1 cm. in 

 diam. Seeds ellipsoidal, about 8 mm. 1., red. 



3. S. Haprisii Urban ex Pax in Engl. Pflanzenreich iv. 147. 

 r. 236(1912); leaves narrowly elliptical-obovate ; petiole without 

 glands ; spikes in axil of leaves ; ovary stalked ; styles two, 

 united halfway. 



Hardware Gap, Blue Mts., 4000 ft., Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 10,117. 



Tree to 60 ft. high, glabrous. Twigs with scars of fallen leaves. Leaves 

 10-17 cm. 1., elliptical-obovate, apex rounded or shortly apiculate, base 

 wedge-shaped, margin entire, revolute, sometimes bearing glands, leathery; 

 nerves not more than about twenty on each side, 6-10 mm. apart, incon- 

 spicuous ; petiole 2-3 cm. 1., without glands ; stipules like those of 

 S. cuneatum. Spikes, female only seen, axillary, 6-8 cm. 1. Bracts very 

 broad, truncate, with a somewhat cup-sliaped gland at each side. Flowers 

 dicEcious. Female flowers : SepaZs two, broadly triangular, l"2-l*5mm. 1. 

 Ovary stalked, stalk about 3 mm. 1., glabrous, 2-celled. Styles two, united 

 halfway ; free part recurved. Capsule (fide Pax) unripe, ovoid, acute. 



25. GRIMMEODENDRON Urb. 



Trees or shrubs, glabrous. Leaves alternate, obscurely 

 toothed or serrulate. Spikes terminal, slender, 2-sexual. Bracts 

 without glands. Flowers monoecious, without petals. Male 

 flowers subsessile, two or a few in the axil of each bract ; female 

 one or two at the base of the spike, sessile, solitary in the axil of 

 each bract. Disk wanting. Male flowers : Calyx with three 

 valvate lobes. Stamens three ; filaments united into a column 

 almost its whole length. Rudiment of ovary wanting. Female 

 flowers : Calyx 3-cleft. Ovary 3-celled. Styles united below, 

 free above, recurved, undivided. Ovules solitary in each cell. 

 Capsule globular, splitting up into 2-valved cocci, the central 

 columella persistent, 3-winged above. Seeds ovate-globular with- 

 out a caruncle, marked near the hilum as if part of the skin had 

 been scraped off. 



Species 2, one a native of Jamaica, the other of the Bahamas 

 and Cuba. 



