Coccoloba POLYGONACE^ 117 



5093, 5188, 6132. Cross, Clarendon, Craig \— Florida,, Bahamas, Cuba, 

 Hispaniola, Porto llico, St. Cruz, Venezuela. 



Tree 25 ft. high or more, or a shrub. Leaves (in Jamaican specimens) 

 6-12 cm. 1., 4-8 cm. br., attached just above base of ochreae, petioles 

 1-1 "5 cm. 1. Ochrcas obliquely truncate, base persistent, more or less 

 deciduous above, 7-9 mm. 1. Hacemes about as long as leaf, lax-fiowered. 

 Perianth, tube about 15 mm. 1., shortly campanulate, contracted at base, 

 lobes roundish, about 2 mm. 1. Fruit about 1'4 cm. 1,, 1 cm. br., lobes 

 3 mm. 1. 



" The wood is heavy, exceedingly hard, strong, brittle and close-grained 

 ... and in Florida is occasionally used in cabinet-making" (Sargent). 



10. C. litoralis TJrh. Symh. Ant. vi. 9 (1909) ; twigs glabrous ; 

 leaves large, broadly elliptical to roundish ovate, apex sometimes 

 very shortly and obtusely acuminate, the older leaves somewhat 

 cordate at base, nerves and veins on both sides prominent ; 

 ochrese ample, glabrous, persistent, apex somewhat lax and 

 deciduous ; racemes long, 2 together, one terminal, the other 

 adjacent in axil of upper leaf, solitary in upper axils, nodules 

 generally 3-flowered, rhachis glabrous. 



In fi. March; near the rocky sea-coast amongst Coco-nut palms, Negril, 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 10,228. 



Tree 40 ft. Leaves attached above base of ochrese, 20-14 cm. 1., 16-10 

 cm. br. ; petiole 1-1*5 cm. 1. Ochreae, persistent portion 'S-l cm. L 

 Racemes 13-33 cm. 1., dense-flowered. Pedicels 1-2*5 mm. 1., jointed near 

 apex. Perianth, tube scarcely 2 mm. 1. ; lobes elliptical, 2*5 mna. 1., 

 scarcely 2 mm. br. Stamens as long as perianth-lobes. Fruit not seen. 



11. C. Happisil Lindau in Urh. Symh. Ant. i. 228 (1899); plant 

 glabrous; leaves elliptical or roundish-elliptical, shortly acuminate, 

 base rounded, nerves and veins on both sides prominent ; ochreai, 

 apex somewhat lax and deciduous, base adpressed and persistent ; 

 nodules 1 -flowered ; pedicels 4 or 5 times as long as the bracts ; 

 fruit not seen. 



In fl. Feb., July, Nov. ; Vinegar Hill, Blue Mts., 3500-4000 ft., Harris ! 

 Fl. Jam. 5089, 5481, 7667. . 



Tree 30 ft. high. Leaves 5-8 cm. 1., 3-4*5 cm. br. ; petioles 1-1*5 

 cm. 1. Ochrese about 1 * 2 cm. 1. Raceme lax-flowered, as long or a little 

 longer than the leaf; bracts and bracteoles "5 mm. 1.; pedicels of fl. 

 1*5-3 mm. 1. Perianth, tube about 1 mm. 1., lobes roundish, about 

 2 mm. br., reflexed in flower. 



12. C. longifolia Fisch. ex Lindau in Engl. Bot. Jahrh. xiii. 

 161 (1891); twigs glabrous, sometimes tomentellous ; leaves 

 large, oblong-elliptical or ovate-elliptical, acuminate, base rounded 

 or subcordate, nerves and veins prominent on both sides ; ochreae 

 glabrous or sometimes tomentellous, adpressed but lax at apex ; 

 racemes somewhat lax-flowered ; nodules l-flowered (sometimes 

 2-3-flosvered) ; rhachis minutely tomentellous or glabrate; pedicels 

 much longer than the ochreolae, ultimately spreading horizontally ; 

 fruit roundish-ovoid, perianth-lobes about one-third of length. — 



