Flora of Dominica, Part 2 - Smithsonian Institution Libraries

NUMBER 77 CLUSIACEAE 67
Clusia mangle
Clusia mangle L. Richard ex Planchon & Triana, 1860:369.-Howard,
1962397.
Clusia venosa sensu Grisebach, 1860:107, non Jacquin.
Kaklin.
Free-living (non-epiphytic) shrub to 2 m or tree to 8 m; sap
white, sticky; leaves to 22 cm x 14 cm, coriaceous; petals
greenish white or cream; fruits globoid, to 2 cm wide.
Guadeloupe, Martinique; in Dominica a dominant in mossy
woodlands: Morne Diablotins (Whitefoord 531 7), Mome
Micotrin area (Chambers 2741, Ernst 1493, 2178, Smith
10275), Mme Plat Pays (Hodge 1693), Mome Trois Pitons
(Hodge 534,1427, Nicolson 1812, Wilbur 8104).
Garcinia Linnaeus
Garcinia edulis (Planchon & Triana) Exell was collected in
Roseau Botanic Garden (Hodge 3956). Howard (1989, 5:327)
reported that Garcinia buchananii Baker, Garcinia mangostana
Linnaeus, and Garcinia morella (Gaertner) Desrousseaux
were once cultivated in the Roseau Botanic Garden.
Garcinia humilis
Garcinia humilk (Vahl) Adams, 1970312.
Rheedia Iaterifora h aws, 1753:1193, non Garcinia laterifora Blume.
Mama hwnilis Vahl. 1798, Eclog., 2:40, pl. 20.
Bois chica.
Shrub or tree to 5 m; sap yellow; leaves elliptic or ovate, to
28 cm x 13 cm; flowers in axillary fascicles; petals cream or
yellow; berry ellipsoid, yellow.
Mainland, Jamaica, Montserrat to Trinidad; in Dominica in
north and east coastal woodlands to 60 m: Capucin (Whitefoord
5809), Calibishie area (Ernst 1688, 2081, 1826, Hodge 31 78),
Carib Reserve area (Hodge 3057,3360,3407, Nicolson 4135,
StehlC 6386), Rosalie-La Plaine (Nicolson 1989, Ramage s.n.,
Stern & Wasshausen 2470). Apparently not seasonal.
Children eat the fruit and the sap is used as a skin healer
(Hodge and Taylor, 1957:586).
Mammea Linnaeus
Mammea americana
Mama americana Linnaeus, 1753:512.-Little & Wadsworth, 1964:354, pl.
164.
Mamey, mammee-apple, z’abricot.
Tree to 15 m; leaves elliptic to obovate, to 2.5 dm long,
pellucid glands numerous and conspicuous; fruit reddish
brown, with edible yellow mesocarp.
Neotropics and widely cultivated; in Dominica in coastal
woodlands from sea level to 150 m: La Plaine (Ernst 1907),
Pointe Baptiste (Ernst 1825), and cultivated at South Chiltem
(Hodge 1601), Bense (DHN!), and Governor Estate (DHN!).
Marila racemosa Swam, 1788:84.
Marih Swartz
Marila racemosa
Cachiman falaise, cachiman marron.
Tree to 9 m; leaves narrowly elliptic, to 23 cm x 6.5 cm;
petals white; capsule linear, to 4 cm long, seeds many, minute,
fusiform, comose on both ends.
Lesser Antilles; in Dominica common in rainforests,
400-750 m: Deux Branches (Hodge 3419), Freshwater Lake
area (Burch 1370, Chambers 2739, Ernst 1473, Hodge 1964,
Nicolson 2023), La Chaudiere (Hodge 3634), Pont Casse area
(Ernst 1198, 1258, Webster 13459, Wilbur 7809), Riversdale
(Howard I1 764), South Chiltern (Stern & Wasshausen 2518),
Sylvania (Hodge 532, 1114, Nicolson 1875), Syndicate
(Whitefoord 4315), sine loc. (Cooper 50). Apparently nonseasonal.
Symphonia Linnaeus f.
Symphonia globulifera
Symphonia globulifera Linnaeus f., 1782302.
Moronobea coccinea sensu Grisebach, 1860:107, non Aublet [corrected to
Symphonia globulifera by Grisebach, 1864:708].
Mang blanc, yellow mang (sometimes spelled mangle),
mang jaune, kulura.
Prop-rooted, light-barked tree to 20 m; blaze white; sap
yellow; leaves elliptic to oblanceolate, to 12 cm x 4.5 cm
(usually smaller), acuminate; flowers in fascicles; petals red;
berry brown, ovoid or globoid, 3-4 cm long.
Neotropics (not Puerto Rico), Africa; in Dominica common
in poorly drained places of rainforest at 100-600 m: Aux
Delices (Nicolson 2087), Boiling Lake (Hodge 1923). Belle
Fille (Webster 13482, Wilbur 8313), Freshwater Lake (Whitefoord
4190), Pont Casse area (Ernst 1799, Stern & Wasshausen
2542, Wilbur 7825), Sylvania (Narodny sen.), Syndicate
(Whitefoord 4401).
Hodge and Taylor (1957:586) have an interesting discussion
of the collection by Caribs of mani sap of true Moronobea
coccinea from beaches.
Tovomitn Aublet
Tovomita plumieri
Tmomiro plumieri Grisebach, 186O:lM.
Mang rouge.
Prop-rooted, dark-barked tree to 25 m; blaze red; sap yellow;
leaves to 3 cm x 1.6 dm; petals greenish: berry ovoid or
globoid, scarlet, 4 cm long with several large, slightly curved