AMYGDALACEAE 651 
or aeute at both ends, or rounded at the base, crenate-serrulate with 
eos -tipped teeth, glabrous or edd 80: d ovate, ae nger than broad: 
corolla 8-10 mm. broad: drupe globose, 8-10 mm. in diameter, dark-purple or 
nearly black, sweet but slightly uu. [P. wr Ehrh.) Agardh. |— 
(WILD BLACK-CHERRY. oe —W oods and roadsides, various provinces, 
Fla. to Tex., N. D., and On t.—Spr.- m.—The bark of this and of other species 
is used in medicine. The wood is uod in eabinet-work. 
Cuthbertii Small Tree 6 m. tall, with tomentose twigs: leaf-blades 
piis typically obovate, varying to oval or pandurate, 4-9 cm. long, blunt 
notched at the apex, shallowly serrate, not markedly biglandular at the 
often cunea a ba ase, dull-green above, pale or glaucescent beneath, the midrib 
and petioles copiously ee , the lateral veins slightly so: raceme 5-8 cm. 
th 
long, the rachis and pedicels pubescent like the twigs: tee broader than 
long, obtuse: petals 3—4 pum long, erisped: drupes subglobose, 8-9 mm. in 
diameter, red.—Rocky and sandy o river-bluffs, and steep- dendo Coastal 
Plain and Piedmont, Fla. and Ga.—Spr. 
4. P. alabamensis (C. Mohr) Small. . mis rarely over 10 m. , the bark 
rough: leaf-blades coriaceous or thick-membranous, ovate to elliptic. 6-12 cm 
ng, t-acumi ut sometimes ODE th pex, serrate wit lunt 
appressed gland-tipped teeth, paler beneath than above y pubescent 
with simple or forked hairs, rounded or slightly narrowed raceme 
at the 
10-15 em. long, spreading, the rachis and peduncles, like the calyx, pubescent. 
—Mt. slopes, yep provinees, Ga. and A] "Spr. 
5. P. australis Beadle. Tree 10-20 m. tall: leaf-blades obovate, oval, or 
eee 4—10 em. long, 2-6 em. wide, abruptly and rather bluntly pointed at 
the or ripae obtuse, r rounded or Wb narrowed at the base, 
on the ower su B with tawny or rufou us tom a m, not at all glaucous: 
raceme 8-12 em. long, b dcs and pe TIMOR like the young shoots, pubescent: 
drupe globose, 5-8 m n diameter, purp loce soil, Coastal Plain, near 
Evergreen, ne Spr 
6. LAUROCERASUS Reichenb. Shrubs or trees. Leaves evergreen, 
copiously impregnated with prussie acid. Flowers in axillary racemes, white. 
Hypanthium white. Sepals minute. Petals more or less angulate. rupe with 
a dry exocarp.—About 20 species, natives of tropical and temperate regions.— 
CHERRY-LAURELS. 
Petals larger than the sepals: drupe subglobose. 1. L. myrtifelia. 
Petals smaller than the sepals: drupe ellipsoid or oval. 2. L. caroliniana. 
L. myrtifolia (L.) Britton. Shrub or small tree: leaf-blades elliptic: 
racemes loosely flowered, the eed Rem v4 slightly angled: drupe 
8-12 mm. in diameter: stone oidal 
o A aime Sw. L. sphaerocarpa 
(Sw.) Roem.]—(WEsT-INDIAN CHERRY. 
few, i one pom Keys, 1 Il and Flor- 
ida Keys.—(W. I.) —Fall—wi 
. L. caroliniana (Mill) Roem. Shrub or 
small tree: leaf-blades narrowly tee d to 
den 
elliptic-oblanceolate: racemes ow- 
ered, the pedicels pud ar saliently 
angled -13 mm id. 
[Prunus s Ait [C Moos ORANGE.) 
—Woods, usually in river banks an 
mocks, Coastal Plain, Fla. to a and N. C. 
—Wint.-spr.—(W. 1. )—Rare as a native 
tree, dm commoner as an scape from cult. 
