208 KUTACEAE. 



as long as the petals; pistillate flowers with a glandular-punctate ovary and 

 short styles; follicles obovoid, 5-9 mm. long; seeds black, shining, 4-5 mm. long 1 . 



White-lands and low coppices, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great 

 Bahama to Grand Turk and Ambergris Cay, Inagua and the Anguilla Isles : Ber- 

 muda ; Florida ; Cuban Cays ; Jamaica, Santo Domingo to St. Lucia. Referred by 

 Dolley to Zanthoxylum fraxineum Willd. YELLOW-WOOD. SATIN-WOOD. 



The occurrence of Zanthoxylum Clava-Herculis L. in the Bahamas as 

 recorded by Dolley is extremely doubtful; both Z. coriaceum and Caesalpinia 

 bahamensis are locally known through the archipelago as ' ' Hercules ' Club. ' ' 



2. SPATHELIA L. Sp. PL ed. 2, 386. 1762. 



Trees, with slender unbranched trunks, the leaf-scars long-persistent, the 

 pinnate leaves tufted at the summit, the polygamous flowers in large terminal 

 erect panicles. Leaflets pellucid-punctate. Sepals 5. Petals 5, imbricated. 

 Stamens 5, alternating with the petals. Ovary 3-celled, 3-angled; stigma 3- 

 lobed; ovules 2 in each cavity. Fruit dry, 3-celled, 3-winged, each cavity con- 

 taining one seed. Endosperm fleshy; radicle straight. [Greek, staff -like.] 

 About 5 species, natives of the West Indies. The trees die after once flowering 

 and fruiting. Type species : Spathelia simplex L. 



1. Spathelia vernicosa Planch, in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 5: 581. 1846. 



Trunk 3-5 m. high, 5-8 cm. in diameter. Leaves several, 1.5-4.5 dm. long, 

 the rachis narrowly wing-margined; leaflets 25-35, oblong or oblong-elliptic, 1-5 

 cm. long, subsessile, obtuse at the apex, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, 

 glabrous, dark-green above, paler beneath, shining on both sides, coarsely 

 crenulate with gland-tipped teeth; panicle 9 dm. long or less; pedicels 3-8 mm. 

 long; flowers red; sepals oblong, 4-5 mm. long; petals oblong-obovate, 5-6 mm. 

 long; filaments with wing-like appendages at the base; fruit 10-13 mm. long, 

 7-10 mm. wide, the triangular body narrowly winged; seeds angled. 



Rocky scrub-lands, Cat Island : Cuba. Low SPATHELIA. 



3. AMYEIS L. Syst. ed. 10, 996, 1000. 1759. 



Shrubs or trees, with compound (sometimes unifoliolate), petioled leaves, 

 and small white perfect flowers in terminal and axillary corymbiform panicles, 

 the pedicels 2-bracteolate. Calyx urn-shaped, 4-5-lobed. Petals 4 or 5. Sta- 

 mens twice as many as the petals, borne on the disk ; filaments filiform ; anthers 

 longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 1-celled; ovules 2, pendulous; style short or 

 none; stigma capitate or flat. Fruit a small drupe. Seed-coat membranous; 

 cotyledons thick, fleshy. [Greek, much balsam.] About 15 species, natives of 

 tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Amyris balsamifera L. 



1. Amyris elemifera L. Syst. ed. 10, 1000. 1759. 

 Amyris maritima Jacq. Enum. 19. 1760. 



A shrub or tree, sometimes 17 m. high, glabrous or the young twigs and 

 inflorescence hispidulous. Leaves opposite, or mostly so; leaflets 3 or 5, cori- 

 aceous, lanceolate to ovate or rhombic-ovate, 2-7 cm. long, acute, acuminate or 

 rounded at the apex, cuneate, rounded or subtruncate at the base, crenulate or 

 entire, short-stalked; panicles several-many-flowered; calyx-lobes ovate; petals 



