ARDISIACEAE 907 
cence racemose, corymbose, cymose, or clustered on scaly spurs. Flowers regu- 
lar, perfect or polygamo-dioicous. Calyx persistent: sepals 4—6, or rarely more. 
Corolla flat, salverform or rotate, white, pink or yellowish: tube very short: 
lobes spreading, reflexed or even curled back, sometimes glandular-spotted like 
the sepals. Androecium of 4-7 stamens adnate to the base or the throat of 
the corolla-tube or at the base of the corolla lobes. Filaments sometimes form- 
ing a tube. Staminodia wanting. Gynoecium of 4-7 united carpels. Styles 
united. Stigma capitate, truncate or somewhat foliaceous. Ovules immersed 
in the fleshy placenta. Fruit a rather dry berry, sometimes leathery, globose or 
subglobose, rarely obovoid, often tipped with the base of the style. Seed soli- 
tary, filling the fruit-cavity, often lobed at the base. 
Stamens adnate to the base of the corolla-lobes ; anthers blunt. 1. RAPANEA. 
Stamens adnate to the throat of the corolla-tube; anthers acute. 2. ICACOREA. 
1. RAPANEA Aubl. 
Shrubs or small trees, with a dark gray bark. Trunks often densely branched. Leaves 
alternate: bladesleathery. Flowers small, polygamo-dioecious, sessile or pedicelled, mostly 
clustered on scaly spurs. Calyx free, campanulate : sepals persistent, 4-5, or sometimes 7. 
Corolla rotate: lobes usually 4—5, imbricated, spreading, often marked with dark lines or 
dots. Staminodia wanting. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, adnate to their bases. 
Filaments very short. Anthers introrse, lying against the corolla-lobes, usually obtuse. 
Style somewhat elongated. Stigma capitate or foliaceous. Ovules immersed in the fleshy 
placenta, only one maturing. Fruit a rather dry berry, pea-like. Seed solitary. 
1. Rapanea Guyanénsis Aubl. A branching shrub or small tree, reaching a height 
of 6 m. and sometimes with a trunk diameter of 16 cm., with white, rather dense wood and 
a grayish bark, sparingly branched, the branches straight, rather naked. Leaves mostly con- 
fined to the ends of the branchlets ; blades obovate- Dons. 4-10 cm. long, leathery, obtuse 
or retuse, revolute, mostly shining, paler on the lower side, short-petioled : flowers sessile 
or nearly so on short stout scaly spurs scattered along the naked branchlets: calyx cam- 
panulate, 1 mm. high ; sepals 5-6, broadly ovate, obtuse or acutish, spotted with purple: 
corolla rotate, whitish, 4 mm. broad, 3 times longer than the calyx ; lobes 5-6, unequal, 
oblong, spotted and striped with purple, usually obtuse, somewhat erose and glandular- 
ciliate : anthers rather sagittate, somewhat shorter than the lobes of the corolla: fruit sub- 
globose, 4 mm. in diameter, bluish or black, often depressed and apiculate, short-pedicelled. 
[.Myrsine Rapanea Roem. & Schult. ] 
Near the coast, Florida, from the Indian River, southward through the Keys and the West Indies 
to Paraguay. 3 
2. ICACOREA Aubl. 
Shrubs or trees, usually much branched. Leaves alternate: blades mostly entire, 
punctate. Flowers perfect or polygamo-dioecious, in panicles or cymes or sometimes um- 
bellate. Calyx free, persistent, campanulate: sepals 4-5, mostly imbricated. Corolla 
white or pink, rotate, more or less reflexed : tube short: lobes sometimes curled, marked 
with dark lines and dots. Stamensas many as the corolla-lobes, exserted. Filaments bent, 
inserted at the top of the corolla-tube. Anthers introrse, erect, acute. Stigma truncate 
or disk-like. Ovules immersed'in a fleshy placenta. Fruit a rather dry berry, varying 
from black to scarlet. Seed solitary, depressed-globose, roughened. Embryo transverse in 
the plentiful endosperm. MARLBERRY. CHERRY. i 
1. Icacorea paniculata (Nutt. ) Sudw. A shrub or small tree, reaching a height of 
7 m. and a diameter of 15 cm. with a hard, close-grained wood, and a light gray or nearly 
white scaly bark : branches and branchlets numerous, rather erect, terete, the latter often 
contorted, usually rusty. Leaf-blades usually oblanceolate, sometimes elliptic, 4-18 cm. 
long, leathery, acute or obtuse, glabrous, slightly revolute, narrowed into short grooved 
petioles, the nerves prominent beneath : panicles 5-12 cm. long: calyx campanulate, 2 mm. 
high ; sepals 4-6, ovate or obovate, obtuse, marked with purple dots and lines, ciliolate, 
the tips more or less reflexed : pedicel as long as the calyx: corolla rotate-reflexed, 1 cm. 
broad ; lobes 5, or rarely 4-6, oblong, obtuse, marked with several purple dots and lines, 
reflexed or curled back: fruit depressed-globose, 7-8 mm. in diameter, apiculate, papil- 
lose, black and lustrous: seeds somewhat reniform. [Ardisia Pickeringia T. & G.] 
On the coast, south Florida, from 26? on the west and 29? on the east coast southward through the 
Keys and the West Indies. Also in Mexico. 
