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NUMBER 77 MYRTACEAE 167
fruits reddish and becoming blue-black, ellipsoid to obovoid,
often 2x longer than wide.
Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles, and South America to Peru;
interior of Dominica, mostly at mid- to upper elevations:
Breakfast River (Hodge 1894), Laiou Forest (Ramage s.n.),
Laudat to Freshwater Lake area (Chambers 2687, Eggers 1042,
Hodge 1833, 1894, Nicolson 4088, Smith 10294, Stern &
Wasshausen 2566, Webster 13246, Wilbur 8253), Pont Casse
(Lloyd 778), Rosehill near Morne Anglais (Eggers 732), South
Chiltern (Ernst 1856), Sylvania (Wilbur 7710), Wallhouse
Valley (Eggers 453). Flowering June- August, fruiting January-mch.
The specimens from South Chiltern and Sylvania (both in
bud) have remarkably large leaves, matched only by specimens
from St. Lucia, which have extraordinarily large fruits (to 3 cm
x 1 cm) that McVaugh (in Howard, 1989,5509) suggests may
represent a distinct species.
Myrcia leptoclada
Myrcia Ieptoclada A.P. Candolle, 1828,3:244.
Dji-pois, guepois.
Tree to 10 m with bark reddish, papery; leaves elliptic and
widest at or slightly below middle, to 14 cm x 4 cm, acuminate
at apex, base rounded to obtuse, pubescent along midrib above
and below; inflorescence loose and thin-branched; flowers
white; disk glabrous; fruits globose.
Central America, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe,
Martinique, St. Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad; in Dominica,
usually in drier areas: Carib Reserve (Hodge 3265), Glasham
(Nicolson 2091), Salisbury (Stern & Wasshausen 2588).
Flowering August-November.
Myrcia platyclada
Myrcia platyclada A.P. Candolle, 1828,3:224.
Aulomyrcia drunosa Berg, 1861:656.
Myrcia dumosa (Berg) Krug & Urban in Urban, 1895:580.
Tree; leaves obovate-oblanceolate, widest beyond middle, to
10 cm x 4.5 cm, obtuse at apex, the base cuneate-attenuate;
inflorescence stiff and erect; disk glabrous; fruit f globose.
Guadeloupe to northeastern South America; in Dominican
rainforests at 600 m: lower north slope of Trois Pitons (Ernst
1808). Flowering June.
Myrcia ramageana
Myrcia ramageana Krug & Urban in Urban 1895:586.
Small tree to 6 m with deep red heartwood; leaves elliptic,
short-acuminate, base rounded, glossy above, to 10 cm x 4 cm;
panicles f terminal, densely pubescent, flowers & sessile; calyx
persistent, incurved in fruit, pubescent on both sides; disk
densely pubescent; fruit globose, pubescent, ribbed, black in
maturity.
St. Lucia; new record for Dominica, known only from Pont
Cas& area -500 m; path to Morne Coumnne from Point Lo10
(Ernst 1981, Webster 13233), road to Castle Bruce and Rosalie
(Stern & Wasshausen 2558). Flowering June, fruiting late July.
Myrcia splendens
Myrcia splendens (Swam) A.P. Candolle, 1828,3:244.-McVaugh. 1958:659.
Myrtw splendens Swam, 1788:89.
Eugenia divaricata Lamarck, 1789,3:202.
Myrcia divaricata (Lamar&) A.P. Candolle, 1828,3:243.
Petite feuille, ‘ti feuille.
Tree to 12 m; leaves to 9 cm x 3 cm, lanceolate to ovate,
rounded to k cordate at base and acuminate, often caudate at
apex, midvein impressed, usually bearing a line of erect hairs
above; inflorescence loose, densely pubescent with spreading
hairs, disk densely pubescent; fruits globose, pink but
becoming black.
S. Mexico and adjoining countries, Antilles and northern
South America to Amazonian Peru; in Dominican rainforests
and dry woodlands from 15-525 m: Clarke Hall (Gates Clark
D-1, Ernst 1438, 1986, Stern & Wasshausen 2416), Fond
Hunte Estate (Whitefoord 4336), Imperial Road (Narodny 3),
Milton (Hodge 2589), Mt. Joy (Hodge 489,1283), Pont Casd
(Lloyd 785), South Chiltern (Hodge 1497), Springfield (Ernst
1842). Flowering February-August, fruiting Apnl-July.
Pimenfa Lindley
Pimenta racemosa
Pimenfa racema (Miller) J.W. Moore, 1933:33.-Landnun, 1986:lOS.
Myrtw caryophyllata sensu Jacquin. 1767,2:1, nm Linnaeus.
Caryophyliup racemosup Miller, 1768.
Myrtw acris Swam, 1788:79, nun. illeg.
Pimenfa acrk Kosteletzsky, 1835:1526. nom. illeg.
Amomb caryophyllata Krug & Urban in Urban, 1895:573, nom. illeg.
Bay tree, bay rum tree, black cinnamon; bois d’Inde, bois
din, asuru, hasuru (Carib = peeled?).
Tree to 13 m; branchlets strongly and acutely angled; leaves
aromatic with odor of lemon or citronella (“bay rum”),
coriaceous and lustrous, elliptic to obovate, rounded to obtuse
at apex, rounded to cuneate at base, to 13.5 cm x 6 cm, midvein
impressed above; inflorescences 5-10 cm long, calyx lobes 5,
densely pubescent within, disk pubescent; ovules 4-7 in each
of 2 locules; fruits obovoid or ellipsoid, -1 cm long, contracted
to a thick neck beneath the flaring calyx.
Cuba?, Puerto Rico into South America (cultivated there and
elsewhere); in Dominica often in coastal thickets to 450 m:
Clarke Hall (Ernst 1270), Grand Bay (Ernst 1069), Harford
(Morden 6*), La Plaine (Nicolson 2052*), Lisdara (Cooper
187, Hodge 490,2440*), Marigot (Hodge 492), Petite Soufribre
Bay (Stern & Wasshausen 2476), Salybia (Hodge 491,3220),
West Cabrit (Hodge 493, Smith 10324), sine loc. (Imruy 268).