FRANGULACEAE 831 
2. REYNOSIA Griseb. Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite: blades entire. 
Flowers perfect, green. Sepals 5, crestless. Petals wanting. Stamens 5: 
filaments longer than the ie Drupe 
apieulate.—About 9 species, West ‘Tadian. 
1. R. septentrionalis Urban. Shrub, or 
t tall, the bark scaly: leaf-blades 
elliptic, varying to ovate or obovate: sepals 
i blac ck.— (RE oop.  DARLING- 
"E 
The fruit is edible L The dark- BO oum 
wood, close-grained and very hard, is used 
lo ocally for cabinet-wor k The fruits are 
pleasantly flavored. 
3. ZIZYPHUS Juss. Shrubs. Leaves alternate: blades three-ribbed, en- 
tire, or sometimes shallowly toothed. Flowers perfect. Sepals 5, keeled within. 
etals 5, hood-like. Stamens 5, opposite the 
etals. fleshy, edib 
celled stone. About 40 species, most abun- 
dant in the Old World tropics 
1. Z. Zizyphus (L.) Karst. Shrub or small 
tree, with glabrous branchlets: leaf-blades 
b e i 
o -25 mm. long, red or nearly 
ack.— (J UJUBE-TREE. ) "es i and road- 
sides. Coastal Plain, Ala. to La. Nat. of Eu. and cult.—Spr.—The fruit is 
edible. 
4. BERCHEMIA Neck. Shrubs or vines. Leaves alternate: blades many- 
ribbed. Flowers perfect or polygamous. Sepals 5, flat. Petals 5, involute, 
sessile. Stamens 5, often shorter than the 
petals. Drupe somewhat flattened, slightly N 
longer than thick.—About 10 species, the 
1. B. scandens (Hill) Trelease. SIDE 
elimber with wide-spreading branches leaf 
bla iptie, or i j 
o lanceolate, A i ; 
dulate-erenate: sepals longer than the hy- 
panthium: petals prd s ERAN 
about as long as the s e Re ellipsoid 
or ovoid-ellipsoid, 6-8 m ong. 
bilis DC.]—( SUPPLE- es onm ) 
