Weinmannia pinnata L.

Weinmannia pinnata L. Sp. PL 1005. 1759
Weinmannia glabra X,. f. Suppl. 228. 1781.
Weinmannia hirta Sw. Prodr. 6h. 1788.
Weinm-annia caripensis H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 58. 1823.
Weinmafinia intermedia Schlecht. & Cham. Linnaea 5 : 555. 1830.
Weinmannia nitida D. Don, Kdinb. New Phil. Jour. 1830: 89. 1830.
Weinmannia alpestris Macfad. Fl. Jam. 2 : 183. 1837.
Windmannia pinnata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 228. 1891.
Windmannia glabra Kuntze, loc. cit. 1891.
Windrnannia intermedia Kuntze, loc. cit. 1891.
Weinmannia glabra mexicana Pamp. Ann. di Bot. 2 : 73. 1905.
Weinmannia intermedia Pittieri Pamp. loc. cit. 74. 1905.
Weinmannia hirta antillana Pamp. loc. cit. 76. 1905.
A shrub or small tree, the twigs densely pubescent to glabrate ; leaves pinnate, shortpetioled; leaflets 5-25, usually 9-17, oblong to ovate or somewhat obovate, sessile, obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, serrate, 8-20 mm. long, glabrous above, pubescent on the veins beneath or sometimes glabrous on both sides ; rachis-wings broad and halfrhombic, or narrow ; racemes usually longer than the leaves, 8 cm. long or less, densely many-flowered ; pedicels clustered, filiform, 2-4 times as long as the calyx, appressedpubescent ; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, pubescent or glabrate, about 1 mm. long ; petals obovate to oblong-obovate, 1-nerved, longer than the calyx ; stamens about ' VOI.UMK ;22, Part 2, 1905] 179 three times as long as the calyx ; capsule ovoid, glabrous, longer than the subulate styles. Plant very variable in pubescence and in size of leaves and leaflets.
Type locality: Jamaica.
Distribution : Jamaica ; Cuba, Haiti, Porto Rico, St. Kitts to St. Vincent ; Hidalgo and Jalapa to Costa Rica ; Colombia to Brazil. » & j f