Flora of Dominica, Part 2 - Smithsonian Institution Libraries

1 70 NYMPHAEACEAE~IACACEAE SMITHSOMAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY
White waterlily.
Aquatic herb; leaves black-mottled below; flowers diurnal.
Neotropics to subtropics; attributed to Dominica by VClez
(1957:lM) on the authority of StehlC. No collections seen.
OCHNACEAE
(by C. Sastre)
1. Shrub or treelet; stipules entire; flowering in terminal
panicles; petals yellow; fruit of 1-5 carpel on a torus
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ouratea
1. Herb; stipules laciniate; flowers (1-3) in axillary bostryches;
petals white; fruit a capsule , . . . . Sauvagesia
Ouratea Aublet, nom. cons.
Ouratea guildingii (Planchon) Urban (“Guildingi”), with
serrate leaves to 10 cm long, has been collected in the Roseau
Botanic Garden (Whitefoord 6122).
Ouratea ilicifolia (A.P. Candolle) Baillon, with spiny
Zlex-like leaves, occurs only in the Greater Antilles. The
citation for the type locality and other specimens cited by
Dwyer (1944: 130) as “Dominica” is an error for the Dominican
Republic (Hispaniola).
Ouratea longifolia
Owatea longifolia (Lamarck) Engler in Martius, 1876, 12(2):316.
Ochna longifolio Lamarck, 1798, Encycl., 4511.
Gomphia longifolio (Lamarck) A.P. Candolle, 1811:417.
Bois perdrix.
Tree to 9 m; leaves entire, elliptic, 20-40 cm long; flower
yellow: immature fruits with green carpels and a spherical, red
toms, mature fruits with red carpels and black torus.
Guadeloupe; in northern rainforest of Dominica, 100-450
m: Borne (Webster 13485), Dleau Gommier (Nicolson 4059),
Hampstead River (Hodge 3669, La Chaudiere (Hodge 3669,
Morne Aux Diables (Nicolson 1930), Riversdale (Howard
11 765). Fruiting May-June.
Sauvagesiu Linnaeus
Sauvagesia erecta
Sawageria rrecta Linnaeus, 1753:203.
Suffrutescent herb to 60 cm; leaves to 6 cm long; stipules
conspicuous, laciniate; flowers white.
Tropical America and Africa; on Dominica common in open
and wet places along roads and disturbed areas in rainforest,
30-850 m: Castle Bruce Road (Cowan 1611), Freshwater
Lake-Laudat area (DeFilipps 145, Lloyd 52, Nicolson 1832,
Smith 10217, Wilbur 7453), La Chaudiere (Hodge 3650),
Lisdara (Hodge 480), Mantipo River (Hodge 479), Marigot
(Hodge 478), Morne Plat Pays (Hodge 1709), Pont Casse area
(Chambers 2720, Ernst 1192, Wilbur 7735), Ridgefield Estate
(Hodge 2211). Sylvania (Cooper 3), Syndicate (Whitefoord
3509).
Only the typical subspecies is found on Dominica. The other,
Sauvagesia erecta subsp. brownei (Planchon) Sastre (1971:21),
is restricted to Cuba, Jamaica, and Belize. Adjanohoun et al.
(1985145, pl. 112) reported medicinal uses of a decoction.
Bornstein (in Howard, 1989, 5300) disagreed with me
(Sastre, 1971:5,27) about the typification.
OLACACEAE
(by R. DeFilipps)
1. Thorns usually present; inner petal surface pilose; stamens
8, anthers linear. . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . Ximenia
1. Thorns absent; inner petal surface glabrous or villous only
at base; stamens 4,5 or 10, anthers ovoid or globose.
2. Calyx greatly enlarged in fruit: petals free; ovary
superior; stamens 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heisteria
2. Calyx not enlarged; petals united > half way; ovary
half-inferior; stamens 4 or 5 . . . . . . . . . Schoepfm
Heisteria Jacquin, nom. cons.
Heisteria coccinea
Heisreria coccinea Jacquin, 1760:20; 1763:126, pl. 81.-Sleumer, 198455.
Bois perdrix.
Small tree; flowers in 1-few-flowered fascicles; pedicels
glabrous; fruiting calyx red, spreading to 2.5 cm; fruit a drupe.
Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Venezuela; occasional in
Dominican rainforests, 340-800 m: Carib Reserve (Hodge
3249), Castle Bruce (Beard 626, Cowan 1603), Deux Branches
(Ernst 1674), En Haut Jean (Nicolson 2162, Webster 13514),
Glasham (Nicolson 2118), Layou River Road (Cowan 1629),
Mosquito Mountain (Webster 13567), Newfoundland (De-
Filipps 189, Point Lo10 (Chambers 2515, Webster 13378),
Sylvania (Hodge 648,1040).
Schoepfm Schreber
Schoepfm schrebed
Schoepfw schreberi Gmeh, 1791:376.--SIeumer, 1984:29.
Caioniwn arborescens Vahl in Rohr & Vahl, 1792207.
Schoepfia omerkana Willdenow, 1798, 1(2):9%, nom. illeg.
Schoepfia arborescens (Vahl) Schultes in Roemer & Schultes, 1819,
5: 160.-Grisebach, 1860:310.
Shrub or small tree; flowers in 1-4-flowered fascicles;
corolla lobes villous at point of insertiorrof sessile anthers; fruit
a drupe.
Northern neotropics; dry west coast of Dominica: Cabrits
(Whitefoord 5252), Dublanc (Whitefoord 502 7). Fruiting in
January.