212 FLORA OF JAMAICA Ocotea 



Works ; Spanish River ; below Vinegar Hill, 4000 ft. ; St. George ; 

 Mt. Moses ; Chepstow, 800 ft. ; near New Market, 1200 ft. ; Toms Cave, 

 Clarendon, 2500 ft.; Peckham, Clarendon, 2500 ft.; Harris I Fl. Jam. 

 5229, 5320, 5466, 5588, 5683, 5855, 5984, 9839, 10,854, 10,963.— Cuba, 

 Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, 

 Grenada. 



A t7-ee to 80 ft. high. Leaves, base obtuse or rounded or rarely acute, 

 apex obtuse or acute, 1-2 dm. 1., 3-9 cm. br. Flowers pale yellow, yellowish- 

 green or white. Male fioioers : perianth, tube almost none ; segments 

 2 mm. 1., elliptical-oblong; stamens 1-5 mm. 1. ; anthers subrectangular ; 

 'pistil sterile, stalk-like, with a discoid stigma. Female flowers : stamens 

 minute, sterile. Berry black, about 1 cm. 1. ; cupule greenish-brown. 



This species is used as a timber-tree. It splits and saws freely, so that 

 shingles and staves are made from it, and hsadings of hogsheads and 

 barrels. Boards, however, do not last well. 



2. 0. floribunda 3Iez in Jahrh. Bot. Qart. Berl. v. 325 (1889) ; 

 leaves lanceolate to oblong-elliptical, on upper surface areolate, 

 beneath nerves and veins prominulous-reticulate ; inflorescence 

 sparingly puberulous above, shorter than the leaves ; flowers 

 dioecious, sparingly puberulous ; filaments glabrous ; staminodes 

 stalk-like, glabrous, or abortive ; berry subglobose ; cupule flat, 

 2-marginal, with the enlarged reflexed perianth-segments 

 occasionally persistent ; pedicel scarcely thickened. — Urh. Symb. 

 Ant. iv. 246. Laurus floribunda Sw. Prodr. 65 (1788) & Fl. Ind. 

 Occ. 721. Strychnodaphne floribunda Qriseb. loc. cit. (1860) ; 

 Meisn. torn. cit. 143. 



Black Sweet-wood, Black Oandle-wood. 



In fl. Oct.-Jan. ; in fr. March ; Wright ! Swartz ! Purdie ; Wullschaegel ; 

 Prior ; March ; Green Valley, 2000 ft. Harris I John Crow (Blake) Mts., 

 1200 ft., Harris d Britton ! Fl. Jam. 5799, 5923, 10,706.— Cuba, Hispaniola, 

 Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Trinidad, Venezuela, Guiana, 

 Nicaragua. 



A tree 30-60 ft. high. Leaves base acute, apex acuminate, with very 

 sparse reddish hairs when young, 6-18 cm. 1., 2-6 cm. br. Flowers greenish- 

 white. Male flowers: perianth, tube very short ; segments 2 -3-2 "4 mm. 1., 

 elliptical and broadly elliptical ; anthers subrectangular ; filaments those of 

 the inner ring with 2 large glands ; pistil sterile with stigma well developed. 

 Female flowers : stamens developed, but anthers without valves. Berry 

 globose, 1 • 3 cm. 1., 1 cm. br. ; cupule flat, spreading above the slightly 

 thickened pedicel, double-margined, and often with the enlarged reflexed, 

 perianth-segments still remaining. 



The specimens from Wright and Swartz have monstrous flowers which 

 are larger, with all the stamens transformed into perianth-like scales. 



3. 0, jamaleensis Mez in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ser. 2, v. 241 

 (1905) ; leaves elliptical or oblong-elUptical, nerves and veins 

 very slightly prominulous above, prominent beneath ; inflorescence 

 white-tomentellous, generally longer than the leaves ; flowers 

 subdicecious, white-tomeutellous ; filaments slightly hairy at the 

 back ; staminodes conspicuous ; berry ellipsoidal ; cupule small, 

 flattish, 4 • 5 mm. in diam. ; pedicel somewhat thickened. 



