178 MISCELLANEOUS CIKOULAR 92, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



SWIETENIA Jacqirin 



*Swietenia mahagoni Jacquin. Mahogany, 



Range. — Florida Keys (Key Largo, Elliotts Key, Upper Metacumbe Key, 

 Biscayne Bay) ; Bahamas, West Indies, southern Mexico, and Central America. 



NAMES IN USE 



Mahogany (Fla.). Mexican Mahogany (trade). 



Madeira (Fla.)- San Domingo Mahogany (trade). 



Redwood (Fla.). Cuban Mahogany (trade). 



West Indian Mahogany (lit.). Costa Rica Mahogany (trade). 



Madura-redwood. Guatemalan Mahogany (trade). 

 Honduras Mahogany (trade). 



Family EUPHORBIACE^ 



DRYPETES Vahl 



Drypetes lateriflora (Swartz) Urban. Guiana Plum. 



Range. — Southern Florida (Biscayne Bay) and several of the southern Keys; 

 Bahamas, Cuba, San Domingo, Jamaica, Porto Rico. 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Dry-petes crocea Poiteau. 



NAMES IN USE 



Guiana Plum (Fla.). Whitewood (Fla.). 



Drypetes diversifolia Krug and Urban. 2 Big Guiana Plum. 



Range. — Florida Keys (Key West, Umbrella Key, Elliotts Key, Lower Meta- 

 cumbe Key; Bahamas. 



NAMES IN USE 



Guiana Plum (Fla.). Big Guiana Plum. 



Whitewood (Fla.). Larger Guiana Plum. 



GYMNANTHES Swartz 



Gymnanthes lucida Swartz. Crabwood. 



Range. — Coast of southern Florida (from Biscayne Bay to the Marquesas 

 Keys) ; Bahamas and several of the other West Indian Islands. 



NAMES IN USE 



Crabwood (Fla.). Poisonwood (Fla.). 



HIPPOMANE Linnaeus 



Hippomane mancinella Linnaeus. Manchineel. 



Range. — From the Keys of southern Florida through the Bahamas and West 

 Indies to northern South America and eastern and western coast of Central 

 America and southern Mexico. 



NAME IN USE 



Manchineel (Fla.) 



2 Britton and Shafer (op. cit., 598) believe that Drypetes keyensis Krug and Urban (Bot. Yahrb., XV, 

 1893, p. 354) is the same plant as their Drypetes diversifolia (op. cit., 353), and they therefore took up for this 

 tree the latter name, which is the older. 



