38 FLORA OF JAMAICA Celtis 



base and acumen, generally with one side at base roundish and 

 the other acute, covered on both sides with minute dots, which 

 are black on the under surface, glabrous ; petiole slightly 

 pubescent, at length glabrate ; flowers in loose axillary cymes 

 male or a few hermaphrodite generally near the apex of the 

 cyme, also fertile flowers sometimes solitary ; stigmas linear, 

 entire ; pedicel of drupe usually shorter than the petioles. — 

 C. trinervia Planch, in DC. Frodr. xvii. 181 (non Lam.). 



Wright ! (by error Sioarfz Planch, loc. cit.) Old England, Blue Mts. ; Cane 

 River Valley, 300 ft. ; Round Hill, Santa Crtiz Mts., 1500 ft. ; Westphalia, 

 Berwick Road ; Great Goat Island ; Glasgow, near Troy, 1400 ft. ; Harris ! 

 Grove Place, near Mile Cmlly, 1100 it., Britton d Harris \ Fl. Jam. 5389, 

 5495, 9329, 9482, 9620, 9G95, 10,622.— Cuba, Hispaniola. 



Tree 25-45 ft. high, without spines. Twigs very young, pubescent, at 

 length glabrate. Leaves 3-8(-ll) cm. 1., 2-4(-5) cm. br. Drupe purple, 

 about as long as, or longer than, tbe pedicel, 8 mm. 1. 



3. C. iguansea Sarg. Silva, vil. 64 (1895); a spiny shrub; 

 leaves not oblique at base. — C. aculeata Sw. Prodr. 53 (1788); 

 Fl. Ind. Occ. 545 ; Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 149 ; Planch, in DC. 

 Prodr. xvii. 186 ; Hemsl. in Salv. & Godm. Biol. Am. Cent. Bot. 

 Hi. 138. Rhamnus Iguanaeus Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 16 (1760) ; 

 Commel. Amst. t. 73 ; Cav. Icon. t. 294. Mertensia zizyphoides 

 Kunth in H.B. & K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. ii. 31 (1817). M. laevigata 

 Eunth loc. cit. t. 103. (Fig. 8, C-E.) 



Macfadyenl Fedro 'Plain, Purdiel Browns Town, Prior ! Grove Place, 

 near Mile Gully, 1700 ft., Brition <& Harris ! PI. Jam. 10,619.— Cuba, 

 Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Cruz, Dominica, Bequia, 

 Margarita, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru. 



Shrub, often climbing high by means of its recurved spines, glabrous ; 

 spines in axils of leaves and branches, sometimes geminate. Leaves oval 

 to oblong-elliptical, shortly acuminate, entire or with a few teeth above 

 the middle, at base generally slightly cordate, usually covered on both 

 sides with minute dots, 10-12 cm. 1., 3-5 cm. br. Flowers in short or 

 paniculate axillary cymes ; stigmas linear, bifid. Drupe 14 mm. 1., much 

 longer than pedicel which is shorter than petioles, solitary, axillary. 



2. TREMA Lour. 



Flowers polygamous, the fertile often bearing stamens, in 

 axillary cymes. Male flowers : perianth, 5-(4-) partite, segments 

 induplicate-valvate or scarcely slightly imbricate ; ovary rudi- 

 mentary. Fertile flowers : segments of perianth persistent, 

 slightly imbricate. Receptacle generally pilose. Drupe sur- 

 rounded by the persistent perianth and generally crowned with 

 the involute branches of the style ; endosperm fleshy, generally 

 scanty ; embryo with cotyledons narrow. 



Species 30 or less, widely dispersed throughout the tropics 

 and subtropics. 



