Mosquitoxylum jamaicense Krug & Urb.

Tree to 30 m high; branches with scurfy, gray or grayish-brown bark, the ellipti-cal lenticels often prominent. Leaves clustered toward the branch-tips, with 5-14 pairs of leaflets, the rachis 10-30 cm long, the leaflets short-petiolulate; lamina of leaflets oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, apically rounded or emarginate or obtuse to acute or short-acuminate, basally cuneate and unequal, 2.5-8.5 cm long, 1.2-3 cm broad, marginally subrevolute, pilose above and below or glabrate. Panicles 7-27 cm long, the branches hirtellous. Flowers sessile, not clustered, each subtended by 3 persistent deltoid bracts ca 1 mm long; sepals ovate or rotund-ovate, ca 1 mm long, marginally minutely ciliate; petals ascending, ovate or elliptic, sparsely pubes-cent on the inner surface, 1.5-2 mm long; stamens ca 1 mm long; disc 5-lobate (each lobe secondarily lobed, the disc thus 10-crenulate), cupular; style persistent, the stigma more or less capitate. Drupes scarlet, lustrous, glabrous, 6-9 mm long, the meso-carp thin; seed somewhat compressed.

Moist or wet forests, at elevations up to 400 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.