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18. Byrsonima martinicensis Krug & Urban ; Duss, Ann. Inst. Col. 

 Marseille 3: 111. 1897. 



Byrsonima martiuicensis vincentiensis Urban & Niedzu.; Niedzu. Gen. Byrs. 2: 41. 1901. 



Leaf-blades oblanceolate, obovate, elliptic, or oblong-lanceolate, 4-12 cm. long or more, 



rounded, obtuse or slightly acuminate but blunt-tipped, light-green above, more or less 



pubescent beneath with reddish, wholly or partially deciduous hairs, abruptly narrowed or 



cuneate at the base, short-petioled ; panicle-rachis and pedicels tomentulose or nearly 



glabrous at maturity ; sepals ovate, 3.5-^4 mm. long, or larger at maturity, the glands about 



one half the length of the sepal-body ; petals yellow, the larger ones 8-9 mm. long ; drupes 



ovoid or globose-ovoid, S-10 mm. long. 



Type locality: Mt. Pelee, Martinique. 



Distribution : St. Croix and Guadeloupe to Barbados and Grenada. 



