Common Trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

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216. Hueso blanco
OLIVE FAMILY (OLEACEAE)
Linociera domingensis (Lam.) Knobl.
This smnll to medium-sized tree is characterized larse eenougli for other purposes. It tnkes a h e
by: (1) an erect trunk which is usually deeply pollsh and has been made into ornamental objects
fluted near the base and covered with whitish bark; and curiosities.
(2) opposite, narrowly elliptic, slightly leathery, In the constul, limestone, and lower mountain
ale reen leaves 3-8 inches long and 1-2 inches forests of Puerto Rico. Also St. Crois.
!rod very longpointed at bhe bnse, slender- l?unr,~c ~on~s~a.-Cnrnbalache, Carite, Guilarte,
stalked; (3) flowers with 4 very narrow white Luquillo, Rlnricno, Suslin, Toro Negro.
petals about % inch Ion&; and (4) slightly egg- RANGE.-Cubn, Jnmaica, Hispaniola, and Puershaped
nnd bonelike white fruits about 3/p inch to Rico. Also in British Honduras and Guatemala.
long, with thin bitter flesh nnd 1 large stone, sev- OTHER conlnroN NAJIEB.-pa10 de hueso, huesillo
eral in cllisters and sometimes produced in large (Puerto Rica) ; bro'o (St. Croix) ; lirio, thrana
qunntities.
(Dominicnn Repub 1 ic) ; cnney, huesillo, hueso,
An evergreen tree 15-60 feet high and to 1 foot bnyito, gunney (Cubn) ; white rosewood, ironwood
in trunk dinmeter, with spreading crown. The (Jnmnicn) ; pine-ridge ironwood (British Honbark
is smoothish and thin. Inner bark is light duras) ; cnyepon (Ha~ti).
brown, bitter, and slightly gritty. Twigs light BOT,\NICAI, SYNONYJ~.-Mayepea domingemis
grny, with prominent, nearly round, raised leaf (Lam.) Krug & Urban.
scrim.
This genus has 3 more species of small trees in
The leaves have petioles 1,-1 inch long. Blades Puerto Rico. Avispillo (Xinohra caribaea
are not toothed on edges but sometimes slightly (Jncq.) I