Dendropanax filipes Britton

Dendropanax filipes Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 41:9. 1914.
Gilibertia filipes Fawcett & Rendle, Fl. Jam. 5: 422. 1926.
Slender straggling shrub, up to 3 m. high, the branchlets slender, cinereous, terete; petioles slender, swollen at the base, up to 3 cm. long; leaf-blades thin-coriaceous, oblong-oblanceolate, 7-12 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. broad, obtuse or acute at the base, acute and callose-mucronate at the apex, entire and narrowly revolute at the margins, obscurely pellucid-punctate, pinnately veined, the costa prominent beneath, the secondary nerves about 10 per side; inflorescence a simple axillary or terminal umbel, the peduncle very slender, 4-10 cm. long, often cernuous, inconspicuously bracteate at the base, the receptacle often convex, 2-3 mm. broad, the pedicels filiform, 5-15 mm. long; flowers 5-merous, 10-15 per umbel, the calyx obconic, about 1.5 mm. long and 2 mm. broad, the limb sparsely fimbriate; petals oblong, about 2 mm. long and 1 mm. broad; filaments about 1 mm. long, subequal to the anthers; summit of ovary carnose, conic, surmounted by the minute free styles.
Type locality: Jamaica. Distribution: Jamaica.