Black Mampoo

Torrubia harrisiana (Heimerl) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat
Herb. 18: 100. 1916.
Pisonia obtusata Heimerl, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 624, in part. 1896. Not P. obtusata Jacq. 1798. Pisonia Harrisiana Heimerl, Symb. Ant. 7: 214. 1912.
Tree, 6-15 meters high, the branches stout, gray or brownish, rugulose, the branchlets stout, yellowishgray, sparsely rufo-puberulent but soon glabrate; leaves opposite, subequal, the petioles 0.5-2 cm. long, slender, puberulent or glabrate, the blades oval, oval-obovate, or obovate, 4.5-11.5 cm. long, 2.2-6 cm. wide, broadest at or sometimes above the middle, obtuse to attenuate at the base and usually short-decurrent, rather abruptly acute or acutish or sometimes obtuse at the apex, thin, concolorous, lustrous above, sparsely puberulent when young but soon glabrate, the margins plane or slightly revolute, the lateral veins evident, slender, distant, 6-9 on each side, the veinlets obsolete or nearly so; peduncles stout, 2.5-7 cm. long, puberulent or glabrate, the inflorescence loosely corymbose, 4-7 cm. broad, many-flowered, the branches slender, ascending or spreading, densely grayishor brownish-puberulent, the flowers sessile or subsessile, glomerate, the bractlets ovate or lanceolate, acutish, 1 mm. long, puberulent; staminate perianth tubular-funnelform, 3.5-4 mm. long, densely puberulent, shallowly and obtusely 5-dentate; stamens 6-8, less than twice as long as the perianth; pistillate perianth subcampanulate, 2,5-3 mm. long, the limb 1.5 mm. broad, spreading, 5-dentate, the teeth acutish, densely puberulent; fruit ellipsoid, 8-9 mm. long, 4-6 mm. thick, dark-red, the utricle 5-6 mm. long, striate.
Type locality: Potsdam Woodland, Santa Cruz Mountains, Jamaica, at an altitude of 860 meters.
Distribution: Jamaica.

Torrubia fragrans (Dum.-Cours.) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat
Herb. 18: 100. 1916.
Pisonia obtusata Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1960. 1806. Not P. obtusata Jacq. 1798.
Pisonia fragrans Dum.-Cours. Bot. Cult. ed. 2. 7: 114. 1814. „ . . „ ,n™
Pisonia nigricans Choisy, in DC. Prodr. 13*: 442, in part. 1849. Not P. nigricans Sw 1800.
Pisonia inermis Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 71. 1859, in part. Not P. inermis Jacq. 1763.
Torrubia inermis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 614, in part. 1904.
Pisonia fragrans oblanceolata Heimerl, Symb. Ant. 7: 213. 1912.
Tree, 15 meters high or less, the branches ascending, grayish or brownish, stout, the branchlets grayishor rufo-puberulent, the internodes usually short; leaves opposite, often very unequal and irregular, the petioles 3-10 mm. long, the blades rhombic-oval, rhombicobovate, obovate-oblong, obovate, or oblanceolate, the smallest rarely suborbicular, usually broadest above the middle, 3-9 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. wide, attenuate to acute at the base or rarely obtuse, rather abruptly acute or acuminate at the apex, or sometimes rounded or even emarginate, very rarely bilobate, thin, glabrous, concolorous, often lustrous above, dull beneath, the margins plane, the lateral veins evident, usually numerous and approximate, slightly arcuate, laxly anastomosing near the margins, the veinlets often finely reticulate beneath; peduncles mostly terminal, stout, 2-4.5 cm. long, sparsely puberulent or glabrate, the inflorescence cymose, 2-6 cm. broad, many-flowered, the branches stout, spreading, puberulent or finally glabrate, the flowers sessile or on pedicels 1-2 mm. long, in glomerules of 3-5, the bractlets lance-ovate, 1 mm. long or less, puberulent; staminate perianth tubularfunnelform, 3-4 mm. long, puberulent, obtusely 5-denticulate; stamens 6-8, less than twice as long as the perianth; pistillate perianth elliptic-oblong, 3 mm. long, slightly constricted below the mouth, obtusely 5-dentate, puberulent; fruit oblong-ellipsoid, 7-1 1 mm. long, 3-4 mm. in diameter.
Type locality: Described from cultivated specimens.
Distribution: General in the West Indies except Jamaica; also in Colombia and Venezuela.

Torrubia dussii Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18: 99
1916.
Pisonia obtusata Heimerl, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 624, in part. 1896. Not P. oblusata Jacq. 1798.
Tree of medium size, the branches stout, rugose, sordid-grayish, the branchlets stout, glabrous except at the nodes, there puberulent, the internodes short; leaves opposite, unequal, the petioles rather stout, 4-8 mm. long, glabrous, the blades oval or oval-oblong, 8-10 cm. long, 4-6 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the base, abruptly acute or cuspidately short-acuminate at the apex, rarely acute, with a usually obtuse acumen, thin, concolorous, lustrous above, dull beneath, glabrous, the margins plane, the lateral veins slender, straight, 6-12 on each side, the veinlets nearly obsolete, laxly and sparsely reticulate; peduncles stout, 3.5-4.5 cm. long, glabrous, the inflorescence cymose, 6-8 cm. broad, many-flowered, glabrous, the branches stout, the flowers sessile, glomerate, the bractlets oblong or deltoid-oblong, acutish, 1 mm. long or shorter, glabrous; staminate perianth funnelform-campanulate, 6-7 mm. long, glabrous, the limb obscurely dentate; stamens 6, half longer than the perianth; fruit ellipsoid, 11 mm. long, 3 mm. in diameter.
Typk locality: Guadeloupe. Distribution: Guadeloupe and Martinique.

Torrubia coriifolia (Heimerl) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb
18: 100. 1916.
Pisonia coriifolia Heimerl, Symb. Ant. 7: 213. 1912.
Small tree, the branches grayish, rugulose, glabrous, the branchlets ferrugino-puberulent; leaves opposite, the petioles .stout, 5-12 mm. long, glabrous, the blades broadly obovate or oval-obovate, 8.7 cm. long and 5.6 cm. broad or smaller, broadest above the middle, narrowed or attenuate at the base, rounded at the apex and cuspidate-acuminate, coriaceous, subconcolorous, lustrous above and glabrous, dull beneath and at first sparsely rufo-hirtellous but soon glabrate, the margins slightly re volute, the lateral veins prominent, numerous, usually 10 or more; staminate peduncles slender, erect, 1.4-3.3 cm. long, the inflorescence subcorymbose, 2 cm. broad or less, rather few-flowered, dense, the branches ferrugino-puberulent, ascending, the ultimate cymules 2-5-flowered, the flowers subsessile or on pedicels 1 mm. long or shorter, the bractlets ovate, subobtuse, 1 mm. long, the perianth funnelform, 3.5-4 mm. long, rufo-puberulent, the limb obscurely 5-lobed, 3 mm. broad; stamens commonly 9, rarely 8, 5.5 mm. long or less; pistillate flowers and fruit unknown.
Type locality: Grenada. Distribution: Grenada.