Cornutia pyramidata L.

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DAUBENY HERBARIUM (FHO)
University of Oxford
Flora of Grenada
Family: Verbenaceae Name: Cornutia pyrimidata L.
Locality: Grenada, St. Patrick, Lake Antoine, road from Tivoli to Lake Antoine, just past the turnoff to Rivers Rum Distillery.
12° 10' N, 61°36' W
Notes:
Small pollarded roadside tree to 4 m high, resprouting with an irregular rounded crown like Elder. Outer bark pale yellow-brown, vertically fissured and flaking in long strips. Slash dull yellow, darkening dirty yellow-brown when exposed, fibrous, smelling of tannin.
Leaves opposite and alternate on same shoot; upper surface - midrib flat and slightly guttered, laterals and tertiary veins slightly channelled, yellow; lower surface glaucous, densely hairy, all venation visible, midrib and laterals prominent, whitish. Crushed leaves sweet smelling. Flowers on 2-brafiched terminal panicles; calyx dark bluish grey, corolla pale violet with a V-shaped cream blotch. Fruit a drupe, green turning glossy black when ripe. Locally common fenceline tree.
Collector: Hawthorne, W. D. & Hughes, C. E. Number: 337 Date:	3 December 1999
Distribution: FHO.K<<<OCR