120 FLORA OF JAMAICA Coccoloba 



Symh. Ant. i. 232. C. leptostachyoides Lindau in Engl. liot. 

 Jahrh. xiil. 207 (1890). Coccolobis? frutescens Ac. /. 14, /. 3, 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 210. Type in Herb. Linn. 



Fl. July-Sept., fr. Sept.-Nov. ; above Bull Bay, Browne I Swartz ! Mt. 

 Faraway, Blue Mts., J. Watt 1 Falls River ; Berwick Hill ; Green Valley, 

 Blue Mts.; Malvern, 2200 ft; Long Mountain, 700 ft. Fl. Jam. 5097, 

 6228, 6272, 5343, 5391, 6517, 8862, 9809. 



Leaves 3-11 cm. 1., 2-8 cm. br. ;"stalkB to 1 cm. 1. Ochrem to I'S cm. I., 

 lower half tubular. Racemes to 24 cm. 1., terminal on young branclnes ; 

 pedicels to nearly 2 mm. 1.; bracts triangular to -75 mm. 1., ochreolae 

 tubular, to "6 mm. 1. Perianth, tube about 1 mm. 1., lobes roundish, 

 1*6-2 mm. 1. Fniit 6-6 mm. 1., 4 mm. br. ; lobes 1-5-2 mm. 1. 



16. C. Priorii Fawc. d- BemUc in Joum. Bot. li. 124 (1913); 

 leaves small, stalked, leathery, glabrous, elliptical, shortly 

 acuminate, base obtuse or rounded, nerves on upper surface flat, 

 beneath prominulous, veins inconspicuous above, netted with fine 

 meshes and flat beneath ; ochreie glabrous, somewhat lax, 

 persistent, tubular below, 2-toothed at apex ; racemes about as 

 long as the leaves, geminate or solitary, terminal, erect, lax- 

 flowered ; I'hachis, bracts, ochreola?, pedicels and perianth 

 minutely tomentellous ; nodules 1 -flowered ; bracts and ochreolse 

 minute ; pedicels jointed at top, much longer than bracts ; 

 fruit. ... C. tenuifolia Griseh. op. cil. 162 (1859) non L. Type 

 in Herb. Kew. 



Prior \ 



Leaves 4-8 cm. ]., 2-4 cm. br. : petioles 7-12 mm. 1. Oc/irfa- 8-12 mm. 1. 

 Racemes 4-8 cm. 1. Bracts and ochreolie scarcely "5 mm. 1. Pedicels 

 2 mm. 1., horizontal. Perianth, tube 2-3 mm. 1., looes 1*6-2 mm. 1. 



§ 2. Campderia. Bracts and ochreolw large ; ochreolse lax, 

 membranous. 



17. C. venosa L. Syxt. ed. 10, 1007 (1759); plant quite 

 glabrous ; leaves papery-membranous (when dry), shortly stalked, 

 elliptical, narrowed to both ends, often somewhat obovate, apex 

 shortly acuminate, abruptly subacute, base obtuse or emarginate, 

 shiny (fide Jacquin), nerves with well defined arches near the 

 margin, flat or semi-immersed on the upper surface, prominulous 

 beneath, veins reticulate, slightly prominulous on both sides ; 

 ochrese membranous, apex long-acuminate, deciduous, base 

 adpressed, persistent ; racemes terminal and lateral, shorter* or 

 longer than the leaves, dense-flowered, more or less pendulous, 

 bracts several-flowered ; flowers shortly stalked ; perianth with 

 very short tube ; fruit a triquetrous, black, shining irut enveloped 

 in the white succulent perianth. — Fawc. tt Bendle in Journ. Bot. 

 li. 123. C. nivea Jacq. Eiium. PI. Carib. 19 (1760), Sel. Stirp. 

 Amer. 115, t. 78 & Ed. pict. t. 115; Sw. Prudr. 64 & Fl. Ind. 

 Occ. 693; Hughes Hist. Barb. 179; Maijc. Fl. Barb. 156; Lun. 



