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NUMBER 77 ANNONACEAE-APIACEAB 23
(Hodge and Taylor, 1957:558). Adjanohoun et al. (1985:49, pl.
15) reported use as a component of medicines.
Guatteria Ruiz & Pavon, nom. cons.
Guatteria canbaea
Guatteria caribaea Urban, 1905, 4:240.-Fries, 1939:480.-Little et al.,
1974174, pl. 321.
Guatteria ouregou sensu Grisebach, 1859:7, non Dunal.
Cananga caribaea (Urban) Brim in Britton & Wilsm, 1924,5:311.
Mahaut noir, bois violin, bois anglais.
Tree to 6 m with fragrant, cream-white flowers.
Lesser Antilles to Puerto Rico; mid elevations in Dominica:
Glasham (Nicolson 2122), Laudat (Hodge 2035), Pont Case
(Nicolson 1132, Wilbur 8147), Salybia (Hodge 3250, Sylvania
(Hodge 1314), Syndicate (Hodge 2629, Whitefoord 5703).
Used by Caribs for boards and rope fiber (Hodge and Taylor,
1957:558).
Oxandra A. Richard
Oxandra laurifolia
Oxandra laurifolia (Swartz) A. Richard in Sagra, 1845, 10:20.-Little et al.,
1974:178, pl. 323.
Uvaria lawifolia Swartz, 1800:1001.
Bois pian.
Tree; leaves 8-19 cm long, villous when young, obscurely
pellucid-dotted; berries long-stalked.
Greater Antilles to Guadeloupe: in Dominica reported from
provisionally determined sterile material (Taylor 28) by Hodge
and Taylor (1957:559).
Reputed useful for treatment of yaws (pians).
Rollinia St. Hilaire
Rollinia muscosa
Rollinia mwcosa (Jacquin) Bdon, 1868:268.-Little et al., 1974:180, pl. 324.
Annona muscosa Jacquin. 1764,1:16.
A small tree with brown pubescent twigs.
West Indies and Central America; in midlands to mossy
forest in Dominica: Morne Micotrin (Wasshuusen & Ayensu
333, Salybia-Hatton Garden Trail (Hodge 3358).
APIACEAWMBELLIFERAE
(by R. DeFilipps)
Cultivated Anethum graveolem Linnaeus, the dill or l’anise,
has leaves pinnatifid into fdiform segments. It is used for
flavoring (Hodge and Taylor, 1957:594): Salybia (Hodge
3290). Adjanohoun et al. (1985147, pl. 113) reported
medicinal uses.
1. Plants erect; leaf-teeth spine-tipped; fruit papillate
......................... Eryngium
1. Plants creeping and rooting at nodes; leaves without
spine-tipped teeth; fruit not papillate.
2. Leaves pubescent; involucre of 2 ovate bracts .....
......................... Centella
2. Leaves glabrous; involucre absent or inconspicuous
....................... Hydrocotyle
Centella Linnaeus
Centella asiatica
Centella asiatica (Linnaeus) Urban in Martius, 1879, ll(l):287.-Adams,
1972558.
Hydrocotyle asiatica Linnaeus, 1753934.
Hydrocotyle erecta Linnaeus f., 1782177.
Centella erecta maws
f.) Femald, 1940:295.-Howard, 1989, 620.
Leaves cordate at base, shallowly to coarsely serrate.
Pantropical; cited for Dominica (with exclamation mark,
indicating voucher seen) by Howard (1.c.). To be sought in wet
places.
Eryngium Linnaeus
Eryngium foetidurn
Eryngiwn foetidm Linnaeus, 1753:232.
Chardon beni.
Glabrous rosette plants: leaves spiny-toothed; inflorescence
an elongate head.
Neotropics; a weed in Dominica, 50-400 m: Fond Baron
(Ernst 1624), Ridgefield (Hodge 2155).
Caribs make a cure-all tea from this foetid plant (Hodge and
Taylor, 1957:594). Adjanohoun et al. (1985:147, pl. 114)
reported medicinal uses.
Hydrocotyle Linnaeus
Hydrocotyle umbellata Linnaeus, with peltate leaves and
simple umbels, and Hydrocotyle verticillata Thunberg, with
peltate leaves and flowers verticillate along an interrupted axis,
were cited for Dominica by Velez (1957:74) on the authority of
Stehl6.
Hydrocotyle sibthorpwides
Hydtocotyle sibthorpioides Lamarck, 1789. 3:153.-Mathias & Constance in
Noh her. FI.. 1944,28B:55.--Eichler. 1987:275.
Hydrocotyle rotunuifolia Raxburgh, 1832,2:88.-Mathias, 1936:220.
Leaves k orbicular, crenate, lobed.
Introduced from Old World tropics; a tiny weed of damp
places of Dominica: Bellevue (Stehle 6356), S ylvania (Hodge
662).