Neea nigricans (Sw.) F. & R.

Neea nigricans (Sw.) Heimerl, Symb. Ant. 7: 218. 1912
Pisonia nigricans Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 643. 1800. Neea jamaicen sis Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 71. 1859.
Tree, 5-15 meters high, the branches stout, grayish, glabrous, the branchlets stout, densely ferrugino-puberulent when young, glabrate in age, the internodes usually short; leaves opposite, the petioles rather slender, 0.4—2.6 cm. long, the blades oval to elliptic-oblong, 5-17.5 cm. long, 2.5-7.5 cm. wide, obtuse to acutish at the base, abruptly acuminate or cuspidate-acuminate at the apex, with a triangular or narrowly triangular, acute or acuminate acumen, thin, deepgreen, slightly lustrous and glabrous above, slightly paler beneath and very sparsely puberulent along the veins or glabrous, the margins plane or subrevolute, the lateral veins prominent beneath, 7-11 on each side, divaricate, straight or slightly arcuate; peduncles of the staminate cymes 1.5-6 cm. long, terminal and axillary, rather slender, sparsely puberulent or glabrate, the cymes many-flowered, loosely branched, 5-7 cm. wide, the branches mostly alternate, ascending or divaricate, densely puberulent, the flowers subsessile or shortpedicellate, the bractlets lance-subulate, 1 mm. long, puberulent, the perianth suburceolate, 4-5 mm. long, sparsely puberulent; stamens 8, unequal; pistillate cymes similar to the staminate ones, 5-10 cm. broad, the peduncles 1.5-9 cm. long, the flowers sessile or short-pedicellate, the perianth broadly tubular-funnelform, 4-5 mm. long, puberulent, 4-dentate, the teeth triangular, obtuse or acutish; fruit broadly oblong, 10-11 mm. long, 5-6 mm. in diameter, the free portion of the perianth 1.5 mm. long and as broad or broader, the utricle 7-9 mm. long, coarsely costate; seed oblong, 5 mm. long, light-brown, finely striate.
Type locality: Jamaica.
Distribution: Jamaica.