ARDISIACEAE 1029 
4—6 sepals. Corolla of usually 4-6 partly united petals, short-salverform 
or rotate, often streaked or dotted. Androecium of mostly 4-6 stamens, 
partly e to the corolla-tube. Gynoecium of mostly 4-6 united car- 
ls. Fruit a drupe-like berry.—Twenty genera and 450 species, mostly 
of mold tnm 
Flowers on scattered spurs: corolla-lobes not reflexed: stigma lobed. 1. RAPANEA. 
Flowers in terminal panicles: corolla-lobes reflexed : stigma entire. 2. ICACOREA. 
I. RAPANEA Aubl Shrubs or small trees. Flowers inconspicuous, 
clustered on d ie stout-pedicelled. Corolla white or nearly so: lobes 
ascending or spreading. Stamens with 
ascending or Mo anthers. Style very 
short: stigma lobed.—More than 80 species, 
mostly tropieal. 
1l. R.g guayanensis Aubl. Shrub or pud tree, 
with grayish bark: leaves mostly n the 
E of the branchlets: blades iM 
elliptie or nearly elliptie, 4—10 em. long: 
flower-clusters scattered along the branch- 
lets: sepals broadly ovate: corolla-lobes 
n : about 4 mm. in 
nds 
Everglade Keys, Und Florida Keys.—(W. I., C. 4., S. A.)—AIl year. 
Ardisia polycephala Wall, native of the East d is an evergreen shrub 
p to six or eight feet tall, with oblanceolate spatulate or somewhat elliptic coria- 
ceous leaf-blades: "inr, in axillary eluster-like cymes: corolla eig or Dd 
with ovate or elliptie- e Ae lobes: stamens erect, yellowish rry de 
pressed- O out le enun purple- -black or almost black, shining — 
Hammocks and old Bono de pen Ardisia differs from Rapanea in the 
R oe lobes and the slender- A anthers. 
2. ICACOREA Aubl. Shrubs or trees. Flowers conspicuous, in panicles, 
cymes, or clusters, an US Corolla white or pink, and often purple- 
streaked: lobes recurved. Stamens with 
converging anthers. ay elongate: stigma 
minute, entire.—More than 200 ee of 
tropical and subtropical regions. 
I. paniculata (Nutt.) Sudw. Shrub or small 
tree, with white or whitish bark: leaves scat- 
tered; blades ee to wd 4-18 
em. long: panicles terminal: x-lobes 
ovate to obovate: to qe elliptic: berry 
7-8 mm. in diameter. ‘[Ard a Pickeringia 
T. & G.]—(MARLBERRY. CHER EOM ee 
hammocks, pen. Fla., pi pur and ham- 
an, Everglade Keys, Fla. = Florida 
Keys.—(IF. I., Mez.)—A1 yea 
