182 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLuME 21 
peduncles 1-1.7 em. long, the branches densely puberulent, the perianth tubular, 2 mm. long, 
glabrate, 5-dentate, the teeth short, obtuse; anthocarp elliptic-oblong, 6-7 mm. long. 
TYPE LocaLity: Rock Key, Florida. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
6. Torrubia discolor (Spreng.) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 613. 
1904. 
Pisonia discolor Spreng. Syst. 2: 168. 1825. 
Pisonia discolor latifolia Heimer, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 627. 1896. 
Pisonia discolor intermedia Heimerl, Bot. Jahrb. 21: 627. 1896. 
Pisonia discolor brevipetiolata Heimerl, Symb. Ant. 7: 215. 1912. 
Shrub or small tree, the branches slender, subvirgate, brown or grayish, rugulose, the 
branchlets slender, grayish or yellowish, sparsely ferrugino-puberulent or usually glabrous, 
the internodes commonly short; leaves opposite or alternate, often crowded, subequal, the 
petioles usually slender and 0.5-1.3 cm. long, rarely only 3 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely 
pubertlent, the blades oblong-elliptic to oval, rarely obovate-oval or rounded-ovate, usually 
broadest at or below the middle, 2-6.5 cm. long, 0.7-4 cm. wide, broadly rounded to acute at 
the base, broadly rounded to acutish at the apex, thin, glabrous, deep-green above and lustrous, 
paler beneath and usually dull, the lateral veins obscure, laxly anastomosing near the margin; 
peduncles slender, axillary and terminal, 1-2 cm. long, glabrous or nearly so, the inflorescence 
laxly paniculate or racemose, few-flowered, 1-2 cm. broad, the flowers sessile or subsessile, 
the bractlets ovate or oblong, minute; staminate perianth tubular-campanulate, 4-4.5 mm. 
long, glabrous, minutely denticulate; stamens 6-8, less than twice as long as the perianth; 
pistillate perianth ellipsoid-oblong, 3 mm. long or less, constricted below the apex; style longer 
than the perianth; fruit 5-7 mm. long, ellipsoid-oblong, scarlet, the utricle 10-striate. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Jamaica. _ 
DistRisuTion: Greater Antilles. 
7. Torrubia longifolia (Heimerl) Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 614 
1904. 
Pisonia obtusata Chapm. Fl. S. U.S. 374. 1860. Not P. obtusata Jacq. 1798. 
Pisonia discolor longifolia Heimerl, Bot. aonb: 21: 627. 1896. 
Pisonia longifolia Sarg. Man. 314. 1905 
Shrub or tree, sometimes 16 meters high, the smooth trunk sometimes 5 dm. in diameter, 
the branches stout or slender, brownish or gray, the branchlets slender, yellowish or gray, 
glabrous, or ferrugino-puberulent about the nodes, the internodes usually short; leaves opposite 
and alternate, subequal, the petioles slender, 0.6-1.6 cm. long, glabrous, the blades narrowly 
oblanceolate to obovate or rounded-obovate, 2.5-6.9 cm. long, 0.7-2.8 cm. broad, cuneate or 
usually cuneately long-acuminate or long-attenuate at the base, broadly rounded at the apex, 
often emarginate, thin, glabrous, deep-green above and lustrous, slightly paler beneath and 
dull, the margins usually slightly revolute, the lateral veins nearly obsolete; peduncles slender, 
axillary and terminal, solitary or geminate, 1-3 cm. long, glabrous, the inflorescence laxly 
paniculate, 1-4 cm. broad, with few or rather numerous flowers, the branches slender, divari- 
cate, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, the flowers sessile or subsessile, the bractlets oblong or 
ovate, 1 mm. long or less, glabrate; staminate perianth campanulate, 3-3.5 mm. long, glabrous 
or sparsely puberulent, the limb obtusely 5-dentate; stamens usually 6, less than twice as long 
as the perianth; pistillate perianth ellipsoid-oblong, 3-3.5 mm. long, glabrous, slightly con- 
stricted below the apex, 5-dentate, the teeth erect, acutish; fruit obovoid or globose-obovoid, 
5--6 mim. long, red. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Bahamas. 
DistrisuTion: In thickets, near the coast, peninsular Florida and the adjacent keys; Bahamas. 
In,ustTRations: Britton, N. Am. Trees f. 336, 337; Sarg. Man. f. 251. 
8. Torrubia Bracei Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 614. 1904. 
A slender tree, 5 meters high or less, the branches stout, reddish-brown or gray, striate, 
the branchlets slender, yellowish, glabrous except about the nodes, there ferrugino-puberulent, 
