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52 BI~NONIACEAE-BOMBACACEAE SMlTHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY
obtuse, 12 cm x 7 cm, petioles to 9 cm, petiolules to 3 cm;
pedicel 1 cm; calyx to 1.5 cm, truncate; corolla to 16 cm long,
white, lobes to 2 cm, rounded, fruit cylindric, 12 cm x 4 cm;
seeds flattened, woody, 2 cm x 3 cm.
Lesser Antilles and Venezuela; locally abundant along the
west coast of Dominica (type locality): Canefield Estate (Ernst
1838), Massacre (Webster 13476). Flowering June, flowers and
hits in July.
This species differs from T jurobu Swartz only in its
puberulous leaf undersurface and may fall into synonymy
(Gentry, pers. comm.).
Tecoma Jussieu
Tecoma cupensis (Thunberg) Lindley (includes Tecomriu
cupensis phunberg) Spach), cape honeysuckle, a rambling
shrub with scarlet flowers to 2 cm long (Hodge 1007, sterile).
Tecoma stuns
Tecoma slaw (Linnaeus) Jussieu ex Kunth, 1819,3:144.
Bignonia stuns Linnaeus, 1763:871.
Shrub to 4 m; leaves 5-7-pinnate; leaflets sessile, ovatelanceolate,
margins crenate; pedicel 7 mm; calyx 5 mm, lobes
acute, 1 mm; corolla campanulate, yellow, to 4.5 cm, rounded
lobes to 1 cm; fruit terete, to 20 cm x 0.5 cm; seeds 0.5 cm,
membranous wings 1.5 cm.
Neotropics; infrequent to common along dry west coast:
Batali River (Erst 1412), Colihaut (Hodge 3773, Loubiere
(Hodge 3862), Pointe Guignard (Wilbur 8132), Scotts Head
(Wilbur 7592), South Chiltern (Hodge 1629), Tarou Cliffs
(Nicolson 1859). Flowers and hits in March, May, June, and
October.
BIXACEAE
Biwa orellana
Bixa orellana Lirmaeus, 1753:512.-LiUle & Wadsworth, 1964:358, pl. 166.
Rou-cou, annetto.
Shrub or tree to 7 m; leaves ovate, cordate, acuminate; petals
white; capsule spiny, seeds red.
Neotropics, pantropically naturalizing; in Dominica cultivated
and apparently spontaneous at lower and middle
elevations on east coast: Cote d'Or (Nicolson 2054), Lisdara
(Hodge 2478), Lmdonderry (Chambers 2624), Salybia (Hodge
3303,3225).
The red seed coat is used as a dye (Hodge and Taylor,
1957588).
BOMBACACEAE
(by R. DeFilipps)
Durio zibethinus Murray, the famous durian of Southeast
Asia, was collected in the Roseau Botanical Garden (Hodge
941). It has a large, spiny, overwhelmingly fragrant fruit.
1. mves palmately 5-9-foliolate; staminal filaments 5, free
above; fruits dehiscent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ceiba
1. Leaves simple; staminal filaments many, connate above;
fruit indehiscent or dehiscent.
2. Leaves shallowly lobed; petals 11-15 cm long; anthers
to 5 cm long; h it dehiscent . . . . . . . . , Ochroma
2. Leaves unlobed; petals to 5 cm long; anthers to 2 mm
long; fruit indehiscent . . . . . . . . , . . Quararibea
Ceiba Miller
Ceiba pentandm
Ceih pentundra (Linnaeus) Gaertner, 1791, 2244.-LiUle & Wadsworth.
1964:332. pl. 153.
Bornbarpenlandrum Linnaeus, 1753:511.
Eriodendron anfiactucxrwn var. caribaewn A.P. Candolle, 1824,1:479.
Bombax occidedale Sprengel, 1826,3:124.
Ceih penturtdra var. caribuea (A.P. Candolle) Bakhuizen van den Brink,
19241%.
Ceih occidentulir (Sprengel) Burkill. 1935:317.
Fromager, pin tree, kumaka (Carib).
Buttressed, enormous, deciduous tree, ours with stout spines
on young branches and young trunks; leaves palmately
compound; petals 2.5-4 cm long; woolly hairs of the endocarp
are the kapok of commerce.
Pantropical, in Dominica in dry west coast woodlands:
Cabrits (Hodge 3703), Portsmouth (Hodge 543), South
Chiltern (Hodge 1649). Leafless March-May, hits ripe in
May *
Source of light wood and kapok (Hodge and Taylor,
1957582).
Ochroma Swartz
Ochroma pyramidale
Ochroma pyrm'&le (Lamarck) Urban, 1920123.-Linle & Wadsworth,
1964:334, pl. 154.-Bomstein in Howard, 1989,5:268.
Bombax pyramidale Cavanilles ex Lamsrck, 1788 [Apr], 2552.
0chr0~ lagopw SWW, 1788 [J~n-J~1]:98.
Bois flot, balsa.
Unarmed tree to 20 m; leaves palmately lobed; endocarp
with woolly hairs.
Neotropics; occasional in Dominica in lowland woods at
30-210 m: Hatton Garden (Hodge 3058), Rosalie (Emst 1360,
Nicolson 4128), Calibishie-Portsmouth-Spanish Mountain
(Nicolson!). Flowers in January, hits in April-June.
Source of light wood and kapok (Hodge and Taylor,
1957:582).
Quararibea Aublet
Quararibea turbinaka
Quararitea turbiwtu (swartz) Poiret in Lamar&,
4636.-Liule & Wadsworth, 1964:336, pl. 155.
Myrodicl turbinafa Swartz, 1788102.
1816. Encycl., Suppl.,