AMYGDALACEAE 645 
toothed. Flowers perfect, in corymbs, cymes, racemes, or panicles, some- 
times clustered. Calyx of 5 sepals, borne on the edge of the hypanthium, 
deciduous. Corolla of 5 petals. Androecium of many stamens. Gynoe- 
cium of a single carpel, or rarely of 2 or 3 carpels. Ovary 1-celled: style 
entire. Fruit a drupe.—About 10 genera and 125 species, most abundant 
in north temperate regions. 
Style basal: ovules erect. Tribe I. CHRYSOBALANEAE. 
Style terminal: ovules pendulous. Tribe II. PRUNEAE. 
RYSOBALANEAE 
Inflorescence axillary: drupe with a fluted stone. 
Inflorescence terminal: drupe with a terete stone. 
1. CHRYSOBALANUS. 
2. GEOBALANUS. 
II. 
Drupe with a pulpy exocarp: leaves p flowers in 
clusters or terminal racemes 
uo sessile or nearly so: stone eoarsely wrinkled and 
pitte 
Flowers o did pedicelled : stone neither wrinkled nor 
00V 
Flowers in corymbs from scaly buds of the Qu DE 
of the pr Td year, before the leaves, the corymbs 
often umbel-lik 
Flowers in Faconies terminating branches of the year, 
after the leaves. 5. PADUS. 
Drupe with a dry exocarp: leaves persistent: flowers in axil- 
lary racemes. 6. LAUROCERASUS. 
1. CHRYSOBALANUS L. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades of an orbieu- 
lar or obovate type. Cymes a id Petals priiis hite. Filaments dis- 
tinct or nearly so. Stone of the fruit pointed at the Nm ridged.—About 3 
species, American and du ae 
3. AMYGDALUS. 
4, PRUNUS. 
1. C. Icaco 
Drupe globular or spheroidal: petals cuneate. : : 
2. C. interior. 
Drupe obovoid or oblong-obovoid : petals spatulate. 
1. C. Icaco L. Shrub, or tree sometimes 10m , and when growing o 
the beach, with radially creeping bag ers leaf- bue Bron obovate e 
orbieular-obovate, ly 4-8.5 long, 
ically i 
drupe globose or spheroidal, 3—4 em. long 
sa , red, urple; stone broadly ob- 
blunt t-ridged. —  (Cocoa4-PLUM.)— 
oid, 
Dom sand-dunes, and coastal hammocks, 
S pen. Fla. and the Keys.—(W. Mez 
C. A., 8. A)— "indi fruits are used: for pre: 
serves. Sometim s planted as an ornam 
It thrives far removed from its mari- 
time habitat. 
rior Small. Shrub or small tree: 
2. C. 
leaf-blades oval, obovate, = orbieular, mostly 
2—6 em. long, typi e — pid d or abruptly 
pointed: sepals abou lo ong: rupe 
obovoid or oblong- cd ES ce ong, purple: stone ellipsoid or ellipsoid- 
udin uelle d ed. Le. pe cllocarpus ie SE. U. S.) n y.|—(Sm 
EVERGLADE Coc M.)—Ham ds Pn Keys, 
didam islands i in e clades and D dE S pen. Fla.—(W. I.) 
2. GEOBALANUS Small. Shrubs, with underground stems. Leaf- 
blades more elongate than in Chrysobalanus. Cyme terminal. Petals not 
