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FLORA OF JAMAICA 



Trophis 



T. racemosa Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 195 (1905). T. foliis «fec. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 357, t. 37, f. 1. T. americana L. Syst. ed. 10, 

 1289 (1759) & Amoen. v. 410; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 153. 

 Bucephalon racemosum L. Sp. PI. 1190 (1753) ; Plum. PL Amer. 

 {Burm.)t.Q7,f.l. (Fig. 10.) 



R a mo on. 



Wright t Dancer ! Swartz ! St. [Mary, McNab ! Wilsori ; Moneague, 

 Prior 1 March ; Hanover, J.P. 1288, Morris 1 near Gordon Town, Moore I 

 Hall's Delight ; Cedar Hurst ; Kentucky Hill, Bluefield Jit., 2000-2500 ft. ; 

 Tom's Gave Wood, Upper Clarendon, 2500 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5550, 

 6075, 10,211, 10,858; near Port Antonio, Britton, 2598!— Cuba, Porto 

 Rico, Hispaniola, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Peru. 



Tree to 40 ft. high. Leaves elliptical, shortly acuminate, entire, 

 glabrous, 1-2 dm. ]., 4-8 cm. br. ; nerves 6-8 on each side, arched. Male 

 spikes 5-10 cm. 1. Female spikes '8-2 cm. 1. Berries 8-12 mm. 1. (fide 

 Grisebach). 



Leaves and tvyigs used as fodder for cattle. 



2. CHLOROPHORA Gaudich. 



Trees with yellow milky juice, with or without spines. Leaves 

 stalked, entiie or toothed, penniveined ; stipules lateral, caducous. 

 Flowers dioecious. Male flowers in catkins, dense, rather long, 

 with small bracts. Perianth 4-partite, segments broad, obtuse, 

 slightly imbricate. Filaments inflexed in bud, later straight and 



Fig. 11. — Chlorophora tinetoria 

 Gaudich. 



A, Shoot with male catkin. 



B, Hale ilower; ov, rudimentary 

 ovary. 



C, Leaf with female inflorescence. 



D, Portion of female inflorescence 

 dissected, showing flower with 

 enveloping bracts. 



E, F, Gland-bearing bracts. 



G, H, Outer and inner perianth 

 segments. 



I, Pistil. 



exserted. Ovary rudimentary. Female flowers in capitula 

 which are globose in W. Indian species. Bracts similar to the 

 segments of the perianth, sometimes thickened inside at the apex 

 with two glands. Perianth deeply 4-tid or 4-partite, segments 

 thickened at the apex, concave, imbricate. Ovary included, 

 oblique ; style lateral, filiform, with a long stigmatic surface, 

 undivided ; ovule laterally affixed, descending. In fruit the 



