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(Last Modified On 4/2/2013)
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(Last Modified On 4/2/2013)
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Genus
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Bourreria P. Br.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Hist. Jamaica 168, 1756.
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Description
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Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely almost whorled, simple, mostly lanceo- late or elliptic; petiolate. Inflorescences cymes, open and many-flowered or occasion- ally few-flowered. Flowers perfect, ? actinomorphic, sessile or pedicellate; calyx campanulate, closed in bud, 2-5-lobed; corolla funnelform to salverform, 5-lobed, the lobes frequently rounded; stamens 5, included or exserted, borne on the corolla throat, subsessile or the filaments only shortly free, the anthers narrow to broadly oblong; ovary ovoid, unlobed, 2- or incompletely 4-locular, the style bifid near the apex, the stigmas 2 and capitate or peltate. Fruit drupaceous, ? spherical, the pericarp thin, enclosing 4 nutlets.
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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About 30 species, mostly in the West Indies, but a few occur in Venezuela, Central America, and Florida.
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Key
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a. Corolla tubes ca 17-23 mm long, the lobes ca 9 mm in diam; leaves to 25 cm long . ..................................................1. B. panamensis aa. Corolla tubes less than 6 mm long, the lobes ca 4-5 mm in diam; leaves to 16 cm long ......................................................... 2. B. oxyphylla
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