834 FRANGULACEAE 
mens 5: anthers notched. Drupe slightly 3-lobed, the carpels To at least 
at the top.—About 15 species, with one exception tropical Am —Fall-spr. 
or all year.—The bark of some species is used as a substitute = dons 
Leaf-blades rather evenly pinnately veined: seeds shining, black. I. AMERICANAE. 
Leaf-blades 3-ribbed from the base: seeds gray, dull. II, ASIATICAE. 
AMER 
I. CANAE. 
Leaf-blades mostly of an ovate type, Sane seemless reticulate, nor copiously 
pubescent all /ove 
Drape 4-6 mm. in “diameter pedicel abruptly due into the Lire Jeaf- 
blades glabrate, at most not rusty tomentos . C. reclinata. 
n 8-10 mm. in diameter: pedicel gradually dilated into 
e hypanthium : le af-blades rusty-tomentose beneath. 2. C. Colubrina. 
peated: oss of an er pad Le prominently fine reticulate, 
and copiously pubescent all o . C. cubensis. 
II. ASIATICAE. 
A diffuse shrub, the dark-green leaf-blades shining. 4. C. asiatica. 
C. reclinata (L’Her.) Brongn. Shrub or small tree becoming 20 m. ta ll, 
with esae. e leaf-blades ovate- = or rarely oval or Pond 3 -$ 
cm. long: sepals about 2 mm. long: pet 
din 1.5 mm. long, yellow or greeni ie 
yellow: drupe slender- pd seated on 
OD. Fla. 
and Florida Keys s.—(W. I.)—The dark- 
brown heart-wo od is elose grained, heavy, 
and hard. 
2. C. i deed i acq.) Millsp. Shrub or 
tree, y-tomentose twigs: le 
blades ouis. ptic, or mod bd c. 
late, 5—15 g: als abo 
y 
tinged: drupe stout-pedicelled, par 
n in the deep hypanthiu Gi Pann, )—Hammocks, Everglade Keys, 
a. and Florida Keys.—(W. [1 ) 
3. C.cubensis (Jacq.) Brongn. Shrub or small tree, n closely fine-pubescent 
twigs: oe blades elliptic, mostly 4-9 cm. long, prominently ribbe d: sepals 
nearly 1.5 mm. long: petals about 1 mm. long: dr dim slender-pedielle ed, im- 
mersed in or 2 nearly or quite to the middle.—Hamm s, Everglade 
Keys, Fla.—(W es —Rarely occurs as a woody vine climbing high into trees. 
4. C. asiatica (L.) Brongn. Shrub with weak, diffuse or prostrate p 
and udin ess = eae erect and t tree like leaf-blades ovate Nn id 
long, nate metimes acute, crenate-serrate, glabrous, dark-gre d 
shining above tr n or bus at pad base, Se enu on pee 
2 ong: petals nearly as long as sepals, greenish: drupe subglobose, 
7— 10 mm. in diameter.—Hammocks and mos S pen. Fla. and the Keys. Nat. 
of Asia. 
9. GOUANIA Jacq. Shrubs or vines. Leaves alternate: blades broad. 
Flowers polygamous, the inflorescence-branches often tendril-bearing. Sepals 
