216 FLORA OF JAMAICA Nectandra 



torn. cit. 450 ; Urh. loc. cit. U. leucantha, var. Rodisei Oriseh. 

 loc. cit. Laurus membranacea Sw. Prodr. 65 (1788) &, FL 

 Tnd. Occ. 713 ; Lunan Hort. Jam. i. 79. Oreodaphne strumosa 

 Griseb. op. cit. 284 (in note on 0. parviflora). O. coriacea Chriseh. 

 PI. Carih. 72 (1857) (non Ne&t). 



In fl. July-Oct. ; Swartz ! Cascade R., Blue Mts. ; Olive R., Christiana 

 district, 3000 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 5344, 8299.— Hispaniola, Porto Rico, 

 St. Thomas, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent, Barbados, 

 Grenada, Trinidad. 



A large timber tree to 60 ft. high. Leaves 8-24 cm. 1., 2-8 cm. br., 

 glabrous or very sparingly puberulous, elliptical to lanceolate, apex 

 acuminate, attenuated to base. Inflorescence shorter than the leaves or 

 about equalling them. Flowers yellowish-white. Perionf/i-segments, 

 outer ovate-elliptical, 1'75 mm. 1., white strigiUose on outside, glabrous 

 within, inner roundish above, slightly attenuated to base, 1-4 mm. 1., 

 puberulous on outside, sparingly on inside. Berry black, 1 cm. in diam. ; 

 cupule 6-7 mm. in diam., saucer-shaped; pedicel thickened above to 

 diameter of cupule. 



3. N. patens Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 281 (1860) ; leaves with 

 nerves and veins prominulous on both sides, reticulate in large 

 meshes ; inflorescence sparsely puberulous ; flowers 4—5 mm. in 

 diam. ; anthers with hairy filaments ; berry ellipsoidal. — 

 Meisn. torn. cit. 164 ; Mez torn. cit. 455 ; Urb. loc. cit. N. 

 coriacea Meisn. torn. cit. 163 (non Griseb.). Laurus patens Sto. 

 Prodr. 65 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 715; Lunan Hort. Jam. i. 70. 



Cap-berry, Sweetwood. 



In fl. June-Nov. ; in fr. June, Aug., Jan.-April ; Swartz I Macfadyen \ 

 Kirk Spring, St. Mary, McNah ! Morse's Gap, Purdie ! Pnor ! J.P. 883, 

 991, 1096, Morris ! Gordon Town, Moore 1 Claverty Cottage ; Chester Vale ; 

 Old England ; Plato ; Woodcutters Gap ; St. George ; Lancaster ; Berwick ; 

 Tweedside ; Browns Town ; Troy ; Peckham, Clarendon ; Harris ! John 

 Crow (Blake) Mts., Harris & BHttonl Fl. Jam. 5327, 5339, 5359, 5369, 

 5381, 5433, 5630, 5560, -5587, 5682, 5917, 6066, 6344, 7081, 8742, 8746, 

 10,712, 10,957 ; Fern Gully, Ocho Rios ; Britton d HolUck, 2698 1 Potsdam, 

 2600 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9748 (monstrosity, flowers passing into bracts). 

 — Hispaniola, Porto Rico, Martinique. 



Shrub or tree 10-40 ft. high. Leaves ovate to elliptical, base more or 

 less shortly acute, apex more or less acuminate, glabrous except sometimes 

 hairy in the axils of the nerves beneath, 7-19 cm. 1., 3-9 cm. br. 

 Pmantfe-segments oblong-elliptical, tomentellous on both sides, 2 mm. 1. 

 AntJiers sulx)rbicular, those of the inner ring subintrorse. Berry white 

 (Harris), 2-2*5 cm. 1.; cupule red, saucer-shaped, 4-5 mm. in diam.; 

 pedicel thickened upwards passing into the cupule. 



4. N. martinicensis Mez in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berl. v. 459 

 (1889) ; leaves membranous or membranous-chartaceous, with 

 nerves and veins prominent on both sides, with wide meshes, 

 glabrous on both sides, but sometimes very sparingly strigillose 

 beneath ; inflorescence white-strigose-tomentellous ; flowers 6 mm. 

 in diam. ; filaments hairy, about as long as the anthers ; berry 

 not known. — Laurus martinicensis Jacq. Coll. ii. 109, t. 5,/. 2. 



