Hufela/ndia 



LAURACEiE 



205 



greenish-yellow, 2-2-5 mm. 1. Pmani/i-segments roundish or roundish- 

 elliptical. Berry black, elongated-ellipsoidal, 2-7-3-3 cm. 1., 1-3 I'S 

 cm. br. 



The timber is useful for general purposes, the wood being hard, and 

 standing exposure. 



Fig. S3.—HiJifelandia pendula Nees. 



A, Inflorescence and leaf X s- 



B, Flower X 6. 



C, Do. cut lengthwise and flattened some- 



what X 6. 



D, Exterior anther X 12. 



E, Staminode X 20. 



F, Gland X 12. 



G, Fruit cut lengthwise X § ; c, cotyledons ; 



p, plumule ; r, radicle. 



2. MISANTECA Cham. & Schl. 



Perianth, tube evident, fleshy ; segments 6, small, scale-like, 

 deciduous in fruit.^ Stamens 3, united into a tube, glandular 

 below ; the 2-celled anthers opening outwards. Berry oblong- 

 ellipsoidal or ovoid, surrounded by the enlarged cupule-like 

 perianth-tube usually with a double margin. 



Species 4, natives of tropical America. 



M. triandra Mez in Jahrh. Bot. Gart. Bed. v. 103 (1889) ; 

 Urh. Symh. Ant. iv. 244. Laurus triandra Sw. Prodr. 65 (1788) 

 & Fl. Ind. Occ. 706. Acrodiclidium jamaicense Nees Syst. 270 

 (1836); Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. 1, 85; Griseh. Fl. Br. W. 

 Ind. 280. Symphysodaphne cubensis JitcA. in Sagra Cub. xi. 190, 

 t. 67 (1850). (Fig. 84.) 



Sweet-wood, 



In a. Oct.; in fr. March- July; Wright \ Sioartzl Macfadyenl Har- 

 mony Hall ; St. Mary ; McNab 1 Prior ; Wilson 1 March ! Green Valley, 



