Coccoloba POLYGONACEi^i 121 



Hort. Jam. i. 78 ; Descourt. Fl. Ant. v. 178, t. 352 ; Melsn. in 

 DC. Prodr. xiv. 168; Griseh. op. cit. 163; Lindau in Urh. Stjmb. 

 Ant. i. 233 (excl. syn. O. excoriata L.). C. punctata L. Sp. PL 

 ed. 2, 523 (1762)! C. excoriata Lindau (non L.) in Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrh. xiii. 211. Uvifera ai'bor americana, convolvulacea, fructu 

 aromatico punctate Pluk. Aim. 391:, t. 237, /. 4. Coccolobis 

 foliis oblongo-ovatis venosis, uvis minoribus punctatis Browne 

 Hist. Jam. 210. 



Chequered Grape Tree (Browne), Chigery Grape Tree 

 (Hughes), Kaisinier de coudre (Jacquin). 



Browne ; Swartz. — West Indies. 



Tree 20-30 ft., with white hard wood, branches ash-grey. Leaves 8-30 

 cm. 1., 4-9 cm. br. ; nerves 8-12 on each side ; petioles 5-8 mm. 1. Ochrex 

 about 1 cm. 1. Racemes to 15 cm. 1., shortly stalked. Flowers yellowish. 

 Berries edible, sweet. 



We have seen no specimen from Jamaica, nor any record of its occur- 

 rence there since the time of Swartz. A leaf named C. nivca Jacq. in 

 Herb. Mus. Brit, from Jacquin's herbarium, proves the identity of this 

 species with C. venosa L. Both Jacquin and Swartz describe the racemes^ 

 as more or less erect, but in the specimens seen they are more or less 

 pendulous as described by Lindau. We are indebted to Mr. J. R. Bovell, 

 Superintendent of the Barbados Agricultural Department, for the loan of 

 specimens in flower and fruit from Barbados. 



18. C. nigra Fawc. & Bendle in Journ. Bot. li. 124 (1913);" 

 plant glabrous ; leaves leathery, narrowly elliptical to lanceolate, 

 shortly stalked, apex obtuse, base obtuse, nerves and veins pro- 

 minulous on both sides, veins netted with small meshes ; ochrese 

 lax, ovate, not tubular, persistent ; racemes very dense-flowered, 

 erect, terminal, shorter than the leaves ; nodules several flowered ; 

 rhachis black ; bracts triangular, leathery, ochreolse 2 lobed, 

 mucronate, translucent ; pedicels short ; perianth with very short 

 tube ; fruit not seen. Type in Herb. Edinb. 



"Jamaica," fide Grisebach ms. in Herb. Edinb. without name of 

 collector. 



Leaves 6-10 cm. 1., 2-5-4 jsm. br. ; petioles 4-5 mm. 1. Ochreae 8 mm. 1. 

 Racemes 15 cm. 1. Bracts 1-5-2 mm. 1.; ochreolse 3 mm. 1. Pedicels 

 about 1 mm. 1. Perianth about 8 mm. 1., tube less than 1 mm. 1., lobes 

 elliptical. 



19. C. excoriata L. Syst. ed. 10, 1007 (1759). This species 

 is known to us only from a leaf-bearing twig from P. Browne 

 from Jamaica in the Linnean Herbarium, so named in Linnseus's 

 handwriting. — A stout shoot (apparently a young sucker) 14 

 cm. 1. and • 5 cm. thick with white bark and brown lenticels ; 

 leaves 7*5-10 cm. 1., 6-7 cm. br., broadly elliptical, very. shortly 

 acuminate, base sometimes unequal, rounded, nerves on both 

 sides prominulous, veins inconspicuous, dark brown on upper 

 surface, light brown beneath ; petioles and ochreae puberulous ; 

 ochrese dark brown, broadly tubular, truncate, 1 cm. 1., perma- 

 nent base 5-7 mm. I., leaf inserted about middle of permanent base. 



