158 MORACEAE-MYRICACEAE SMITHSON” CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY Ficus glabrata Kunth. 1817,2:47. Ficus kugiana Warburg in Urban, 1903,3:459. Medium tree; leaves lightly scabrid with base rounded; figs solitary, long-stalked, >1 cm thick. Central America to Brazil, Montserrat to St. Vincent; occasional in <strong>Dominica</strong> from lowlands through rainforest: Belvedere-Delices (Whitefoord 3764), Clarke Hall (Nicolson 2005), Hatton Gardens (Hodge 3073), Layou (Ramage s.n. at BM), Morne Plat Pays summit (Hodge I692), Picard Estate (Nicolson 4220), Roseau Valley waterfall (Hodge 2009). This species has been misidentified and reported from <strong>Dominica</strong> as F. laurifolia Lamarck, a synonym <strong>of</strong> Ficus maxima Miller. True F. maxim apparently does not reach the Lesser Antilles. It lacks the elongate stipules <strong>of</strong> F. insipida and has a distinctive papery petiolar epidermis that cracks and exfoliates. Berg and DeWolf (1975232) cited Eggers 6670 (p) from St. Vincent as F. m’m, but a duplicate (US) is clearly F. insipida. Ficus caribaea Jacquin (1767, 2:30) is a possible earlier name for F. insipida, if one interprets “pedunculis simplicibus” as “figs solitary.” This was treated as a name “deserving oblivion” by Warburg (in Urban, 1903,3:490). The type should be located. Ficus obtusifolia Ficus obtusifolia Kunth, 1817, 2:49.-DeWolf, 1960:163.-Little et al., 1974118, pl. 292. Urarfigma involufum Liebmann, 1851:320. Ficus involufa (Liebmann) Miquel, 1868:298. Ficus lvbaniana Warburg in Urban, 1903,3:459. Ficus involufa var. whniana (Warburg) Dugand, 1943:275. Large spreading tree; leaves large, broadly obovate, cuneate f rounded at base; figs large, paired, sessile, each subtended by several broad involucral bracts. Neotropics, except Greater Antilles; in <strong>Dominica</strong> near the coast: Belle View (Cooper 14). This and other large-leaved species <strong>of</strong> Ficus are considered as spirit trees by the Caribs (Hodge and Taylor, 1957553). Dugand (1955:229), with reservations, placed Ficus urbaniana and his F. involuta var. urbaniana in synonymy <strong>of</strong> F. involufa. He was under the misapprehension, clarified by DeWolf (1960:163), that F. obtusifolia, the name used here, was a later homonym <strong>of</strong> F. obtusifolia Roxburgh. However, Roxburgh’s name, a nomen nudum in 1814, was not validly published until 1832. Howard (1988,4:63) called this Ficus nymphaeifolia Miller. That taxon, with cordate leaf bases, may well include and intergrade with this, but I cannot accept the identification for the <strong>Dominica</strong>n specimen nor Little et al.’s illustration, both with tapering leaf bases. Ficus perforata Ficusperforafa Linnaeus, 177’5:17.-DeWolf, 1960: 154. Ficus americana Aublet, 1775:952.-Rossberg. 1935:580.-Howard, 1988, 4:58. Ficuspallida sensu Grisebach, 1860:151, non Vahl. Ficus omphalophora Warburg in Urban, 1903,3:487. Ficus sintenirii Warburg in Urban, 1903, 3:464.-Little 1964:74, pl. 24. & Wadsworth, Small tree to 5 m; leaves obovate to elliptic, small; figs small, paired, shortly pediceled. West Indies, Guatemala to Colombia, in <strong>Dominica</strong> at mid-elevations from 200-750 m: Castle Bruce Road (Ramage s.n.), Freshwater Lake (Ernst I731), Lisdara (Cooper 192), Point Michelle (Ramage s.n.), Riversdale (Beard 241), Syndicate (Whitefoord 5886), Trois Pitons (Lloyd 770). This is the smallest-leaved Ficus on <strong>Dominica</strong>. The two competing names, F. perforata and F. americana, include the same Plumier drawing. The Linnaean name was published 23 Jun 1775, Aublet’s name was published on or after June 1775, being far into the second volume, probably after the Linnaean name. Ficus trigonata Ficus trigonata hnaeus, 1775:17.-DeWolf, 1960:160.-Little et al., 1974124, pl. 125.-Berg & DeWolf, 1975:264. Figue rouge. Tree; leaves medium, blunt at apex and rounded to f cordate at base; figs <strong>of</strong> medium size, k sessile, <strong>of</strong>ten with rim around the apex. Antilles and continental Caribbean coasts; lower elevations in <strong>Dominica</strong>: Salybia (Hodge 3271), South Chiltern (Hodge 1567, sterile, provisionally determined by DeWolQ. Sterile specimens <strong>of</strong> this may be indistinguishable from F. obtusifolia. MYOFQRACEAE (by R. DeFilipps) Bontia daphnoides Bontia daphnoides Linnaeus, 1753:638. Shrub or tree to 4 m; stems with conspicuous alternate leaf scars; leaves narrowly elliptic, to 10 cm x 2 cm long, glandular-punctuate; flowers solitary, axillary, pedicellate; sepals acuminate, ciliate; corolla yellow, spotted with purple, the lower lip reflexed, densely red-beard& drupe ovoid, yellow, 1.0-1.5 cm long, beaked. West Indies and northern South America; in <strong>Dominica</strong> in scrub woodlands near beach or in swampland: Cabrits and Prince Ruperts Bay (Hodge 853, 854, 3726, Nicolson 4194, Smith 10338, Wasshausen & Ayensu 380). MYRICACEAE Myrica pubescens var. caracasana Myrica pubescens var. caracasana (Kunth) A. Chevalier, 1901 :208.
NUMBER 77 MYFUCACEAE-MYRSINACEAE 159 Myrica caracasana Kunth, 1817,2:18.Staples in Howard, 1988,4:38. Myrica microcarpa sensu audt., nm Bentham.-Urban, 1892:359. Dioecious shrub to tree to 4.5 m, branches with large, white lenticels; leaves densely glandular-punctate below, toothed along upper margin; male spikes 7-12 mm long; drupe to 3 mm long, with waxy papillae. West Indies and northern South America; in <strong>Dominica</strong> in montane rainforest and elfin woodlands, 1000-1400 m: Morne Anglais (Hodge 2283), Morne Diablotins second summit (Nicolson 41 74). MY RI~ICACEAE Myristica fragrans Myristicafragranr Houttuyn, 1774:333. Nutmeg, mace. Dioecious tree to 20 m; fruits pendant, fragrant; seed (nutmeg) to 4 cm long with a laciniate, red aril (mace). Native to East Indies, now pantropically cultivated; apparently naturalizing in <strong>Dominica</strong>: Clarke Hall (Ernst 1419), Lisdara (Hodge 403, Ridgefield Estate (Hodge 2210), sine loc. in 1887 (Eggers 568). Nutmeg contains myristicine, a hallucinogenic drug that is dangerous in large amounts (fewer than three seeds). MYRSINACEAE (by A.C. Nicolson) 1. Inflorescences k sessile,
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