Palo Iloron

Antirhea lucida (Sw.) Benth. clHo:k. Gen. PI. 2: 100. 1873
Laugeria lucida Sw. Prodr. 48. 1788.
Malanea iiilida Desr.; Lam. Hncyc. 3: 688. 1791.
Slenoslomum lucidum Gaertn. Fruct. 3: 69. 1805.
Slunnia lucida (iaertn Fruct. pi. 192. f. 3. 1805.
Slenoslomum nilidum DC. Prodr. 4: 461. 1830.
Malanea cilri folia A. Rich. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. 5: 203. 1834.
Malanea lucida A. Rich. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. 5: 203. 1834.
Guellarda nilida Maza, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 23: 290. 1895.
A shrub or tree, sometimes 13 meters high, with a trunk 45 cm. thick, the bark smooth, the branchlets grayish or yellowish, slender, glabrous, usually densely leafy; stipules ovatedeltoid, 5-8 mm. long, acuminate, minutely sericeous outside, caducous; petioles stout, 3-8 mm. long, glabrous; leaf-blades elliptic, elliptic-oblong, oval-oblong, or elliptic-oval, broadest at or near the middle, obtuse or acutish, acute to rounded and short-decurrent at the base, firmchartaceous, glabrous, more or less lustrous, the costa subimpressed above, prominent beneath, the lateral nerves inconspicuous, 7-13 on each side, irregularly spaced, the veins prominulous and very finely reticulate on both surfaces, the margin plane; cymes usually once bifid, the branches slender, 3-8 cm. long, the slender peduncles 2-3 cm. long, the flowers numerous, distant, alternate, sessile or subsessile, ebracteolate; calyx and hypanthium 2-3 mm. long, glabrous or minutely puberulent, the calyx equaling or slightly exceeding the hypanthium, 5-lobate, the lobes semiorbicular, ciliolate; corolla 5-7 mm. long, white, glabrous outside, the lobes ovaloblong, obtuse, half as long as the tube, this glabrous within; anthers included or partially exserted; fruit oval or oblong, red or black, 5-7 mm. long, 3-4.5 mm. thick, 2-celled; seeds brown.
Type locality: Jamaica, in thickets.
Distribution: In thickets and forest, Bahamas; Greater Antilles; Virgin Islands; St. Lucia; also in Trinidad and British Honduras.