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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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Species
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CASTILLA TUNU Hemsl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Hook. f. Icon. P1. ser. 4. 7: P1. 265I. 1901.
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Synonym
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Castilla fallax Cook, in Science n. ser. 18:43 8. 1903.
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Description
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Trees 5-20 m. tall, the young branches densely hirsute with appressed rather dingy-brown hairs, eventually glabrate. Leaves broadly elliptic to oblong-obovate, subcuspidate-acuminate at the tip, obtuse to acuse and very strongly inequilateral at the base, 15-40 cm. long, 7-15 cm. broad, minutely and closely ciliate- denticulate to subentire, membranaceous, appressed-hirsute above and below to glabrate, the petiole about 1 cm. long; stipules 4-5 cm. long. Inflorescences paired or solitary in the upper leaf-axils. Staminate heads conduplicate-reniform, about 2 cm. long and 2.5 cm. broad, sessile or subsessile. Fruiting heads oblate-globose, 2-3 cm. in diameter, quite sessile, the component flowers coherent only toward the base, greenish and nearly dry at maturity.
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Habit
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Trees
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Distribution
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British Honduras to Panama, in moist forests at low elevations.
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Specimen
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DARIEN: Rio Chico, near Yaviza, Allen 4586; trail between Pinogana and Yaviza, Allen 276; Garachine, Pittier 5696. SAN BLAS: Puerto Obaldia, Pittier 434I; locality indefinite, Cooper 284.
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Note
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This species, according to Allen, "is reported as NOT being used for rubber" in Darien, which Pittier confirms from his experience in Costa Rica. According to Pittier, the species also is known to occur in Chiriqui, in the vicinity of David. In spite of the faults which both Pittier and Cook have found with Hemsley's description and plate, there appears to me little doubt that C. fallax is a superfluous name.
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