Dendropanax grandis Britton

Dendropanax grandis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 39:4. 1912.
Gilibertia grandis Fawcett & Rendle, Fl. Jam. 5: 422. 1926.
Tree, up to 16 m. high, the branchlets stout, cinereous, terete; petioles stout, 4-10 cm. long, swollen at the base; leaf-blades coriaceous, ovate or broadly elliptic, 1 1-15 cm. long, 6-10 cm. broad, rounded and abruptly cuneate at the base, rounded and obtusely callosetipped at the apex, entire and narrowly revolute at the margins, pinnately veined, the costa very prominent, the secondary nerves about 8 per side, raised on both surfaces, the veinlets reticulate, prominulous; inflorescence a simple terminal umbel, the peduncle stout, about 4 cm. long, bracteate at the base and slightly above (the bracts coriaceous, ovate, about 2 mm. long), the receptacle carnose, about 10 mm. broad, the flowers about 50, the pedicels 18-20 mm. long; calyx carnose, cupuliform, 3-4 mm. long, 4-5 mm. in diameter, the limb truncate or irregularly undulate; petals oblong, 4-5 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. broad; filaments 5-6 mm. long, the anthers 1 .5-2 mm. long ; styles connate in a carnose conic truncate column about 1 mm. long.
Type locality: Jamaica. Distribution: Jamaica.