TREES AND SHRUBS. 



MISAOTECA TRIATORA (Sw.), Mez. 



Misanteca triandra (Swartz), Mez, Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin, v. 103 (1889). 



Laurus triandra, Swartz, Prodr. 65 (1788) ; Fl. Ind. Occ. ii. 706. — Willdenow, Spec. ii. 482.— 



Persoon, Syn. i. 449. — Poiret, Lamarck Diet. Suppl. iii. 324. 

 Endiandra jamaicensis, Sprengel, Syst. i. 176 (1825). — Rcemer & Schultes, Mant. iii. Addit. 



ii. 400. 

 Acrodicliditjm jamaicensis, Nees von Esenbeck, Syst. Laur. 270 (1836). — Meissner, De Can- 



dolle Prodr. xv. pt. i. 85. — Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 280; PI. Wright. 188; Cat. PI. 



Cub. 111. — Sauvalle, Fl. Cub. 143. 

 Symphysodaphne cubensis, A. Richard, Fl. Cub. iii. 190, t. 67 (1855). — Meissner, De Candolle 



Prodr. xv. pt. i. 176. 

 Aydendron? cubense, A. Richard, Fl. Cub. iii. 187 (1855). 



Leaves elliptical-lanceolate, ovate or broadly elliptical, abruptly long-pointed and acuminate at 

 the apex and gradually narrowed and cuneate at the base; deeply tinged with red and villose on the 

 lower side of the midribs when they unfold, soon becoming glabrous, and at maturity dark green 

 and lustrous on the upper surface, pale on the lower surface, from 8 to 12 centimetres long and 

 from 3.5 to 4 centimetres wide, with slightly undulate margins, prominent midribs, slender primary 

 veins, and reticulate veinlets conspicuous on the lower surface; petioles stout, narrowly wing- 

 margined at the apex, at first pubescent, becoming glabrous, from 8 to 10 millimetres in length. 

 Flowers glabrous or puberulous, purplish, from 2 to 2.5 millimetres long, in three- to five-flowered 

 cymes, on slender peduncles, in pubescent panicles shorter than the leaves ; tube of the perianth 

 funnel-form, the lobes equal, triangular, acute ; staminal column pilose ; ovary glabrous. Fruit in 

 few-fruited clusters, on much elongated and thickened pedicels, ovoid, acute, dark blue, 2 centi- 

 metres long, 1.5 centimetres in diameter ; cupule light red, thickened and verrucose, acute at the 

 base, the margin reflexed, thin and entire on the inner edge, thick and crenulate on the outer edge ; 

 seed light brown, slightly ridged when dry. 



A tree, in Florida about 15 metres high, with a tall trunk 4.2 decimetres in diameter, covered 

 with light red-brown bark, small spreading and pendent branches forming a broad round-topped 

 handsome head, and slender red branchlets pubescent when they first appear, soon becoming gla- 

 brous and marked by numerous large pale lenticels. Flowers in September. Fruit ripens in 

 early summer. 



Florida, where only two individuals have been seen : edge of a hammock by roadside between 

 Miami and Homestead, Dade County, Miss O. Rodham, June 2, 1910 ; E. Simmonds, July 6 and 

 September 1, 1910 (in herb. Arnold Arboretum) ; also in Cuba. 



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