1250 OLACACEAE 
. PYRULARIA Michx. Shrubs or trees, with diffuse branches. Leaves 
alternate: blades broad. Flowers scale or polygamous, racemose. Style 
short: stigma depressed. Drupe 
form.—Three species, the following and 2 
Asiatie 
1. P. pubera Michx. Shrub 1-3 m 
or l st abo the middle, 
4-15 cm. long: sepals ovate, green, 2-2.5 
mm. long: drupe 2-2.5 em. long.—(BUFFALO- 
NU OIL - N - COCONUT. )— 
B NUT. MOUNTAI 
River-banks and woods, c Ridge to Ap- 
palaehian s en Ga. Ala. an gum 
Spr.-sum.—A. curious 2 b, inconspieuous 
in sr but obo in fruit by the dan ng- 
ling which are, at first light-gre 
and PE yell owish. An oil, oe olive oil, but ill-scented and poisonous, 
has been pressed from the ‘dru upes 
Faminy 3. OLACACEAE — Ximenia FAMILY 
Shrubs, trees, or vines. Leaves usually alternate: blades e or 
rarely toothed. Flo wers perfect or polygamous, regular, in dichotomous 
or raceme-like cymes. Cal f 4—6 small sepals surmounting e mee 
thium. Corolla a 4-6 distinct or united petals. droecium of 
stamens. Gynoeec m 3—4-carpellary. Fruit a drupe.—About 25 genera 
and 140 species, nob tropical. 
Petals united to above the middle: stamens as many as the cones and oppo- 
site them: drupe nearly enclosed in iu. disk. SCHOEPFIA. 
Petals nearly distinct: stamens twice as many as the petals: drupe 
naked. 2. XIMENIA. 
1. SCHOEPFIA Schreb. Unarmed shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades entire. 
gi e filled with an elevated disk. Sepals broad. Petals united to 
val or ovoid. Ovary about 1% inferior.— 
About 15 species, tropical American d 
Asiatie. 
1. S. chrysophylloides (A. Rich.) Planeh. 
Shrub or small tree, with pale 
leaf bad ovate to oblong-ovate, 2-6 cm 
ong: olla red 
S. 
(Fl. SE. U. 8.) ]—(WurrEwoop.)—Coastal 
and inland 21 pe en. Fl 
Keys.—(W. I.)—AlIl yea 
XIMENIA [Plum.] L. Thorny shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades entire. 
An without an elevated disk. Sepals minute. Petals nearly dis- 
