Comocladia
(from kome, hair, and klados, a branch; in allusion to the leaves being crowded at the tops of the branches). Maiden Plum. ORD. Anacardiaceoe. Stove evergreen trees, abounding in clammy juice. Flowers purple, small, on short pedicels, disposed in loose branched panicles; petals three to four, imbricate. Leaves impari-pinnate, with opposite leaflets. They succeed well in a mixture of peat or loam, or any light rich soil. Ripened cuttings root in sand, if placed under a glass, in heat.
C. dentata (toothed). l., leaflets on short footstalks, oblong, erosely-toothed, smooth above and downy beneath. h. 30ft. Cuba, 1790. C. ilicifolia (Holly-leaved). l., leaflets ovate or roundish, sessile, smooth, with spiny angles; spines one to three on each side. h. 20ft. 1778. C. integrifolia (entire-leaved). l. about 2ft. long; leaflets stalked, lanceolate, quite entire, smooth. h. 10ft. to 30ft. Jamaica, 1778.