Flora of Dominica, Part 2 - Smithsonian Institution Libraries

NUMBER 77 CHRYSOBAIANACEAE~LUSIACEAE 65
Chrysobalanus Linnaeus
1. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, apex acuminate ........
........................ C. cuspidatus
1. Leaves broadly elliptic to k orbicular, apex retuse to acute
........................... Cicaco
Chrysobalanus cuspidatus
Chrysolnlanus cuspidatus Grisebach [1864:711, nom. nud.] ex Duss,
1897:258.-Howard. 1964:279.-Prance, 197&:20.-Howard, 1988,4:326.
Z’icaque.
Small tree; leaves acuminate, glabrate below with a strigose
midvein.
Lesser Antilles; apparently rather uncommon in Dominica in
inland forests -700 m: Breakfast River (Hodge 1893), Laudat
(Eggers 618), Pont Casse (Ernst 1200).
Chrysobalan us icaco
Chrysobalanus icaco Linnaeus, 1753:513.-Prance, 1972a:15.
Z’icaque, fat pork, coco-plum; Carib ikaku, hikaku, nalubuno.
Shrub or small tree; leaves k orbicular.
Subcoastal neotropics; common in Dominica on coastal
beaches, in swamps and dry scrub Anse du Me (Wilbur 8289),
Cabrit Swamp (Nicolson 1898, Webster 13314), Castaways
Hotel (Stern & Wusshuusen 2428), Castle Bruce (Ernst 1466,
Wilbur 7989), Delices (Whitefoord 3776), Grand Bay (Ernst
1063, Wilbur 8003), Grand Savanne (Stern & Wasshuusen
2462), Hampstead (Lloyd 613), L’Anse Noire (Wilbur 7524),
La Plaine (Nicolson 2069, Wilbur 81 74), hhigot (Hodge 584,
Pagua River mouth (Hodge 3063, Pointe Ronde (Hodge
2696), Portsmouth (Hodge 583, 3750), Salisbury (Stern &
Wusshuusen 2590), Salybia (Hodge 585), Vieille Case (Cowun
1597).
Caribs eat hits and pound wood for gommier torch wicks
(Hodge and Taylor, 1957560).
Hirtella Linnaeus
Hirtella triandra
Hirtella triandra Swam, 1788:51.-Prance, 1972a:301.
Z’icaque, zi crab, bouis, bouis poil.
Tree to 15 m; inflorescences erect, to 1.2 dm long; petals
white, stamens 3, red, long exserted.
Neotropics; common in Dominica in forests to 700 m:
Bagatelle (Nicolson 4043), Castle Bruce (Beard 657), Clarke
Hall (Chambers 2711, Nicolson 1857, Stern & Wusshuusen
2412), Hatton Garden (Hodge 3074), La Plaine (Ernst 1912),
Laudat (Lloyd 338), Melville Hall (Ernst 1030), Milton Estate
(Hodge 2569), Pont Casse (Wilbur 7708), Riversdale (Howard
11 769), Roseau Valley waterfalls (Hodge 2000), Rosehill
(Eggers 639), Sylvania (Hodge 579).
The seeds are edible and eaten by small children.
Licania Aublet
1. Leaves glabrous below; petals present; stamens -30,
exseaed .................. L. leucosepala
1. Leaves white-tomentose below; petals absent, stamens
3-5, included. ............... L. ternatensis
Licania leucosepala
Licania leucosepala Grisebach, 1857:198.-Prance, 1972a:52.
Moquilea leucosepala (Grisebach) R.O. Williams, 1932, 1:315.
Tree to 15 m; petioles >1.5 mm thick, 0.5-1.2 cm long;
stipules to 4 mm long but quickly caducous.
Lesser Antilles into Venezuela; apparently rare in Dominica
in rather dry areas into forests to 450 m: Mahaut (Duss 153),
west of Pointe Lo10 (Ernst 1203, 1954), Sugar Loaf (Eggers
753).
Licania ternatensis
Licania ternatemis J. Hooker [in Rolfe, 1893:251, nom. nud.] ex Duss,
1897:25S.-Pt~10~, 1972a:122.
Licania hypoleuca sensu Grisebach, 1860:230, non Bentham.
Bois diable, bad job (difficult to cut because of hard wood).
Tree to 35 m; inner bark bright red and trees easily
recognized by its “blaze” with a machete; inflorescence to 15
cm long; leaves distinctively white beneath; stipules -1 mm
long, adnate to petiole, erect.
Lesser Antilles; one of the commonest trees in Dominica in
rainforests and montane thickets from 100-1O00 m: Aux
Delices (Nicolson 207I), Castle Bruce (Rumage s.n.), Dleau
Gommier (Nicolson 4065), La Chaudiere (Hodge 3570),
Laudat (Hodge 2063, Milton (Hodge 2672), Morne Diablotins
(Hodge 2840), Morne Plat Pays (Wilbur 7886), Pont Casse
(Ernst 1201, Wilbur 7786, Webster 13465), Sugar Loaf (Eggers
742), S ylvania (Hodge 578), Syndicate (Whitefoord 4403),
Trois Pitons (Hodge 1237, Lloyd 761).
The wood is valuable for posts and considered the best for
charcoal (Hodge and Taylor, 1957561). The fruits are eaten by
people, pigeons, and parrots.
CLUSIACEAE/GUTTIFERAE
Pentudesma butyruceu Sabine, an African species cultivated
for butter-like tallow of the seeds, was collected near Dr.
Wide’s home on Pointe Mulltre (Fischer 7023 at Fairchild
Garden Herbarium). It has large flowers in terminal clusters,
obovate-apiculate leaves with striate venation and petioles
without the basal pit.
1. Venation differentiated into primary and secondary, reticulate.