Flora of Dominica, Part 2 - Smithsonian Institution Libraries

NUMBER 77 MELAsmMA~cEAE 153
rugulose, broad-elliptic, acuminate, base rounded to acute, to
21 cm x 10 cm; petiole to 3 cm; inflorescence pyramidalpaniculate,
to 15 cm; flower 4-merous; hypanthium and calyx
minute, 1 mm; petals 1 mm, white; stamens white, 3 mm; style
2 mm; young fruit pink, turning purple-black, 2 mm.
Lesser Antilles; locally common on Dominica, often in
rainforest at 150-900 m: Carholm Estate (Ernst 1946), Lisdara
(Cooper 153, Hodge 509, Morne Micotrin (Eggers 653,
Hodge 1787, King 6385, Wilbur 7451), Morne Trois Pitons
(Ernst 2050, Pont Casse area (Wilbur 81 79), South Chiltern
(Stern & Wasshausen 2500), Sylvania (Hodge 506,508,1116),
near Syndicate (Ernst 1999, Whitefoord 3894,4260), sine loc.
Cooper 51, Eggers 1001, Imruy 210). Flowering January-
August, fruiting March, July, and December.
Nepsera Naudin
Nepsera aquatica
Nepsera aquatica (Aublet) Naudin, 185028.-hin, 1930b:34.
Melastoma aq,uaticum Aublet, 1775430, "aquatica."
Bitter leaf, ti feuille.
Scrambling shrubby herb to 1 m; branchlets 4-angled; leaves
5(-7)-veined, serrulate, ovate, base rounded, to 6 cm x 3.5 cm;
petiole to 2 cm; cyme terminal, paniculate, sometimes leafy, to
15 cm; hypanthium 3 mm; sepals 2 mm, acute, persistent;
petals 6 mm, white; anthers 2.5 mm, purple; capsule round, 3
mm.
Neotropics; common on Dominica in moist areas 100-700
m: Bataca (Stehle 6439), Dleau Gommier (Norstog 3373, La
Chaudihre (Hodge 3681), Laudat (Hodge 1819, Lloyd 397,
Nicolson 2101), Lisdara (Hodge 528 at US & GH), Morne
Micotrin (Chambers 2676, Wilbur 7432), Morne Plat Pays
(Wilbur 7866), Morne Trois Pitons (Ernst IOIO), Pont Casse
(Hodge 1221), Portsmouth Morne Brules (Hodge 529),
Riversdale (Proctor 25783), Roseau River hot springs (Howard
11736), Soufriere (Eggers s.n.), South Chiltern (Hodge
1589, Stern & Wusshuusen 251 7), Sylvania (Cooper 70, Hodge
1109), Syndicate (Chambers 2652, Whitefoord 3503, Wooten
Waven (Eggers s.n. at GH), sine loc. (Bryant 76, Imruy 374 at
NY). Flowering and fruiting throughout the year.
Pterolepis (A.P. Candolle) Miquel
Pterolepis glomerata
Pterolepis glomerata (Rottboll) Miquel, 1840:78.-Domin, 1930b334.
Rhexia glomerata Rottbgll, 1776%.
Arthostemma glomeratum (Rottboll) Chamisso, 1835454.
Balier blanc.
Sometimes shrubby herb to 1 m; branches 4-angled,
pubescent; leaves 3-veined, white-strigose above and below,
elliptic to ovate, to 3.5 cm x 1.5 cm; petiole 4 mm; flowers
short-pedicelled, axillary or terminal, 1-6 in a glomerule
subtended by leaf bracts; hypanthium 6 mm, with verticillatepedicellate
hairs; sepals 6 mm, oblong-ovate, ciliate, erect,
persistent in fruit; petals white or pink, 1 cm, fiinged with
minute, dark glandular hairs, quickly deciduous.
Eastern South America and southern Antilles; common weed
on Dominica in pastures and wet places at low to midelevations:
Balata (Nicolson 2012), Clarke Hall (Webster
13194), La Plaine (Wilbur 8166), La Ronde (King 6368),
Laudat area (Chambers 2678, Lloyd 934, Nicolson 1830,
Wasshausen & Ayensu 326), L'Imprevue (Nurodny s.n.),
Lisdara (Hodge 525,526,2414,2415), Marigot (Hodge 523,
Morne Trois Pitons (Ernst I231), Portsmouth Morne Brules
(Hodge 524 at GH, 529 at US), Sylvania (Cooper 95A, Hodge
521, 523, 1137, 1138), Syndicate (Whitefoord 3504), Wooten
Waven (Eggers 508), sine loc. (Bryant 92, Eggers 817,
Fishlock 40). Flowering and fruiting throughout the year.
Tetrazygia L. Richard ex A.P. Candolle
1. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 5 cm broad; flowers white or yellow
......................... T. discolor
Tetrazygia angustifolia
Tctrazygia angustifolia (Swartz) A.P. Candolle. 1828. 3:172.--Domin,
1938:37.
Melastoma angustifolium Swartz, 1788:71, "angustifolia."
Miconia angustifolia (Swartz) Grisebach, 1857:217 [as], non Naudin.
Cre-cre blanc.
Shrub or tree to 7 m, whitish puberulous with tiny stellate
hairs; leaves 3-veined, linear-lanceolate, to 5 cm x 1 cm; petiole
0.8 cm; cyme paniculate, to 5 cm; hypanthium 1.5 mm; sepals
0.5 mm, obtuse; petals 2 mm, rose; berry 3 mm, purplish.
Antilles; common on Dominica in dry areas to 400 m:
Cabrits (Nicolson 1890), Grand Bay (Wilbur 7910, 8001),
Grand Savanne (Stern & Wusshuusen 2445), Hampstead
(Lloyd 665), L'Anse Noire (Ernst 21 OO), Pointe Ronde (Ernst
1564). Ridgefield Estate (Hodge 2144), Salisbury (Webster
13492). Syndicate turnoff (Whitefoord 4318), Trois Pitons
(Lloyd 786). Flowering and fruiting March, June-August,
November.
Tetrazygia discolor
Tetrazygia discolor (Linnaeus) A.P. Candolle, 1828, 3: 172.-Domin,
1938:38.
Melastoma discolor Linnaeus. 1759a:1022.
Tctrazygia discolor var. villosa Grisebach, 1860:255.
Tetrazygia villosa (Grisebach) Cogniaux in A.L. & A.C. Candolle, 1891,
7:721 .-Domin, 1930b:38.
CrC-cr6 blanc.
Shrub or small tree to 8 m, densely stellate-whitepuberulous;
leaves 5-veined, ovate, long-attenuate, base