EUTACEAE. 



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at the top, with 45-81 sessile lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate 

 crenate leaflets; at maturity a very large terminal panicle of showy purple 

 flowers appears above the leaves, the petals about 3" long, and the 3-winged 

 fruits are about 1' long. The tree dies after ripening its fruit. It has been 

 planted in Bermuda. 



Correa alba Amir., WHITE CORREA, Australian, taken to Mount Laugton 

 from the New York Botanical Garden in 1913, is a shrub with opposite, simple, 

 ovate leaves, pubescent beneath, blunt at the apex, l'-2' long, and white 

 flowers about 10" broad, clustered mostly in 4's at the ends of branches, the 

 fruit a leathery capsule. 



Diosma vulgaris Schl., COMMON DIOSMA, South African, taken to Mt. 

 Langton from the same source in 1913, is a low shrub, l-2 high, with 

 linear, convex acuminate leaves 1' long or less, and small white corymbose 

 flowers. 



Family 9. SURIANACEAE Lindl. 

 SURIANA FAMILY. 



Shrubs of tropical coasts. Leaves alternate, narrow, rather fleshy. 

 Flowers perfect, solitary, or in few-flowered terminal clusters. Calyx of 5 

 persistent sepals. Corolla of 5 imbricated petals with claws. Stamens 10 ; 

 filaments slender, those opposite the petals shorter, or sometimes obsolete. 

 Disk adnate to the base of the calyx or obsolete. Carpels 5, distinct, oppo- 

 site the petals, pubescent, 1-celled ; styles filiform ; stigmas capitate. Ovules 

 2, collateral, ascending, campylotropous. Fruit achene-like. Seeds with 

 a horseshoe-shaped embryo and thick incumbent cotyledons. Only the 

 following monotypic genus. 



1. SURIANA L. 



Characters of the family. [Dedicated to Joseph Donat Surian of Mar- 

 seilles.] 



1. Suriana maritima L. TASSEL 

 PLANT. (Fig. 224.) A branched 

 shrub 3-S tall, rarely a small 

 tree, with softly pubescent foliage. 

 Leaves numerous and approximate, 

 lineai-spatulate, *'-2" long, entire, 

 nerveless ; flower-clusters not sur- 

 passing the leaves; sepals ovate, 

 3"-4" long, acuminate; petals yel- 

 low, broadened upward, about as 

 long as the sepals; fruit 4''-5" 

 broad, the achene-like carpels finely 

 pubescent. 



Common on beaches and coastal 

 rocks. Native. Florida and the West 

 Indies. Flowers in spring and sum- 

 mer. Bermuda is the type locality 

 for this species, one of the most 

 characteristic coastal plants, some- 

 times growing in large colonies- 



