Dendropanax cordifolius Britton

Dendropanax cordifolius Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 39:4. 1912.
Gilibertia cordifolia Fawcett & Rendle, Fl. Jam. 5: 421. 1926.
Slender tree, about 6 m. high, the branchlets cinereous, rugose, subterete; petioles stout, swollen at the base, 2-1 1 cm. long; leaf-blades chartaceous, broadly ovate, 9-20 cm. long, 6-12 cm. broad, cordate or rounded at the base, obtuse, acute, or short-cuspidate at the apex, entire and narrowly revolute at the margins, pinnately veined, the costa very prominent, the secondary nerves about 5 per side, spreading, raised on both surfaces, the veinlets copiously reticulate, prominulous on both surfaces; inflorescence a simple terminal umbel, the peduncle striate, stout, 12-16 cm. long, minutely bracteate at the base, conspicuously bracteate slightly above the base (the bracts broadly ovate, 1-2 mm. long, often connate), the receptacle carnose, convex, about 10 mm. broad, the flowers 60-80, the pedicels 20-30 mm. long; calyx obconic, 3-4 mm. long, 4-5 mm. in diameter, the limb truncate; petals oblong, 4-5 mm. long, about 1.5 mm. broad; filaments 5-6 mm. long, the anthers about 1.5 mm. long; stylar column stout, conic, 1-2 mm. long, nearly 1 mm. in diameter near the apex.
Type locality: Jamaica. Distribution: Jamaica.