378 Ign. Urbän: 



Obs. C. ereda Turp. foliis lanceolatis v. oblonge -lanceolatis, 1,7-- 

 2 cm. longis, 0,3 — 0,8 cm. Jatis et praesertim drupis minoribiis, apice 

 rotundatis, ad marginera non acutatis valde convexis optime differt. 



Picrasma antillana ürb. foliolis basi plerumqiie obtusis v. rotun- 

 datis; carpidiis maturis 1 cm. dianietro, obscure caeruleis giaucescentibus. 



Quassia cxcelsa Siv. Flor. II (1800) p. 742 (qiwad patr. Carib.). 



Picrasma exceJsa Planck, in Hook. Lond. Journ. V (1846) p. 574 

 (quoad patr. Anligua); Walp. Ann. I p. 167. 



Picraena excelsa Oriseb.f Kar. (1857) p.43 et Flor. p. 140 (pp); 

 Engl, in Marl. Flor. Bras. XII 2 p. 228 (p.p); Egg. St. Croixp.108 

 et St. Croix and Virg. Isl. p. 38; Keiv Bull. Nr. 81 p. 242; Dnss! Flor. 

 Ant. franc. p. 143; Mey. et Schum. in Atlas off. Pflanzen vol. III p. 6 

 (p. p) tab. 97/; Engl, in Kat. Pflajixenfam. III 4. jJ. 222 Fig. 129 

 A — O., — 71071 Lindl. 



Bhus antillana Eggers. ' Flor. St. Croix and Virg. Isl. (1879) p.4l. 



Bitter ash in ins. Dan. ex Egg., Feste ä poiix Guad. ex Duck., 

 Bois noyer v. Graines vertes Guad. ex Duss, Bois amer Mart. 

 ex Duss, Bitter wood Barb. ex Egg. 



Hab. iu St. Thomas ad Signal Hill 460 m. alt: Eggers; St. Jan: 

 Herb. Haim. (ex Egg.); St. Croix ad Canaau: A. E. Ricksecker s. n.; 

 St. Kitts in monte Miserj m. Dec. fl.: Eggers ed. Rensch n. 381"; 

 Antigua ex Griseb. et Engl; Guadeloupe: Ducbassaing, in sylvis 

 Gourbejre (Morne Gobiin, Camp Jacob), bords des rivieres Noire et 

 Rouge, 400 — 700 m. alt., parum frequens, m. Oct., I^ov. fl, m. Mart.fr.: 

 Duss n. 8300, 3630, 3854; Martinique Hauteur des Trois-Ilets, Mon- 

 tagne du Yaucliu, Saint Anne: Duss n 1199, Bois du Laraentin, m, 

 Apr. fr.: Hahn n. 762; St. Vincent in sylvis montanis e. gr. in valle 

 prope Grand Sable, 100 — 500 m. alt.: Smith n. 498, 647; Barbados 

 in Joes River Wood, m. Jan. deflor.: Eggers n. 7313. 



Obs. I. P. excelsa Planch. (Quassia excelsa Sw. Prodr. 1788 p. 67 et 

 in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. vol. IX. 1788 p. 302 tab. VIII!, Picraena ex- 

 celsa Lindl, , Aeschrion excelsa 0. Ktze. var. mierocarpa Kr. et Urb. in Engl. 

 Jahrb. XV 1892 p. 806), qnae in Jamaica et Hispaniola crescit. foliolis basi 

 plerumqiie acutis et praesertim carpidiis pluries minoribiis 4 — 6 mm. dia- 

 metientibus nigris (ex Sw. et Harr.) specifice diversa est. — 111. Swartz 

 pro sua Quassia excelsa flores polygames, masculos et hermaphroditos in 

 eodem racemo indicat, cl. Lindsat, qui arbores in Jamaica loco natali in- 

 vestigavit, in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinb. III. 1794 p. 205 tab. 6! flores suae 

 Quassiae jjolygajnae masculos et hermaphroditos in diversa arbore descripsit, 

 cl. Eggers suae Rlms autillanae flowers mostly cf, the rest hermaphrodite 

 adtribuit. Egomet in materie ampla duarum specierum mihi obvia flores 

 masculos tantuni, sed nuUos hermaphroditos invenire potui, ut nesciam, an 

 ulteriores praesertim in structura stylorum adlmc alios characteres differen- 

 tiales praebeant. 



