Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 1773
Primary Source Reference:
"Liste des Plantes de St. Domingue d'ont j'ay les feuilles Sechées dans ma collection," June 1773, Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, No. 55, p. 3
Notes:
Four different speices -- Muntingia calabura, Boehmeria ehrenbergia, Samyda dodecandra, and Guazuma ulmifolia -- are all known as bois d'orme in Haiti. Catalogue of the Seed Plants of the West Indies, Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution / https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/botany/WestIndies/catalog.htm
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Du Simitière's Common Name:
Bois d'orme
