204 FLORA OF JAMAICA Hufelandia 



KEY FOR FRUITS. 



Leafy trees or shrubs. 



Fruit without a cupule 1. Hufelandia. 



Fruit with a cupule. 



Perianth-segments persistent in fruit. 



Segments enlarged only at base, not 

 lengthened. 

 Fruit globose, or pear-shaped (edible). 



Leaves pinnately-nerved 3. Persea. 



Fruit ellipsoidal. Leaves subtripli- 



nerved in Jamaican species 4. Phcebe. 



Segments enlarged generally. 



Cupule flat Ocotea floribunda. 



Cupule cup-shaped Ocotea staminea. 



Perianth-segments deciduous in fruit. 



Cupule bell-shaped, hemispherical, 2- 



margined 2. Misanteca. 



Cupule saucer-shaped or flat, 1-margined... 5. Ocotea, or 



G. Nectandra. 

 Twining parasitic herbs. Fruit enclosed by the enlarged 



persistent perianth 7. Cassytha. 



1. HUFELANDIA Nees. 



Perianth, tube very short ; segments 6, subequal ; the whole 

 perianth deciduous in the fruit. Stamens 9 ; anthers 2-celled ; 

 glands large, roundish ; staminodes large, cordate-sagittate. 

 Berry ellipsoidal, without a cupule ; pedicel somewhat thickened. 



Species 7 or 8, natives of tropical America, one species 

 occurring in the West Indies. 



H. pendula Nees Plant. Law. 22 (1833) <k Syst. 188 

 Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 1, 65 ; Gh-iseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 280 

 Mez in Jahrb. Bat. Gart. Berl. v. 20, t. LI. f. 2, III. f. 8, 25, 25a 

 Urh. Symb. Ant. iv. 243. H. Thomsea Nees Plant.' Laur. 23 d t. 

 (1833) & Syst. 189. Laurus pendula Sw. Prodr. 65 (1788) & 

 Fl. Ind. Occ. 719. Beilschmiedia pendula Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. 

 PL in. 152 (1880) ; Fawc. Fl. PI. Jam. 33. B. Thomsea Benth. 

 d: Hook. f. loc. cit. (1880) ; Fawc. loc. cit. Laurus foliis obverse &c. 

 Browne Hist. Jam. 214. (Fig. 83.) 



Slog-wood or Slug-wood; Laurier madame (Dominica). 



In fl. March-Sept. ; in fr. Sept., Nov., Feb. ; Swartz ! Caley ! Mac- 

 fadyenl St. Mary, Purdiel March] Browns Town, Pi-wrl Silver Hill; 

 Spanish River; Doll Wood; Whitfield Hall, 4350 ft.; Troy, IGCO ft.; 

 Harris I near Mandeville, 2100 ft., Harris d Brition I Fl. Jam. 5286, 5326, 

 5575, 9447, 10,59 i.— Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Kitts, Montserrat, 

 Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia. 



Tree 20-45(-60) ft. high. Leaves elliptical, base wedge-shaped, apex 

 generally shortly acuminate, areolate on both sides, nerves prominent 

 beneath, slightly puberulous beneath when young, at length glabrous on 

 both sides, .5-16 cm. 1., 2-5-5 cm. br. Panicles lax, few-flowerai. Flowers 



