284 MYRSINACEAE. 



regular, perfect or polygamo-dioioous. Calyx persistent; sepals 4-6, 

 rarely more. Corolla salverform or rotate, white, pink or yellowish, its 

 tube very short, the lobes spreading, reflexed or even curled back, some- 

 times glandular-spotted like the sepals. Stamens 4-7, adnate to the corolla- 

 tube or borne at the base of the corolla-lobes. Filaments sometimes form- 

 ing a tube. Staminodia wanting. Gynoeciuni of 4-7 iinited carpels. Style 

 one. Stigma capitate, truncate or somewhat foliaceous. Ovules immersed 

 in the fleshy placenta. Fruit drupaceous, often tipped with the base of 

 the style. Seed solitary, filling the fruit-cavity. About 20 genera contain- 

 ing 500 species or more, of tropical distribution. There are no native nor 

 naturalized plants of this family in the Bermuda Flora. 



Icacorea humilis (Vahl.) Britton, Asiatic, was established at Mount 

 Langton by Lefroy in 1873, and a fine plant was studied there in 1913. It 

 is a shrub, up to 6 high, with alternate coriaceous oblong to oblanceolate, 

 short-petioled leaves 4'-6' long, acute at each end, and small short-pedicelled 

 greenish-purple flowers in axillary and terminal umbels, the corolla-segments 

 lanceolate, twice as long as the calyx. [Ardisia humilis Vahl.] 



Lefroy records the establishment, at the same place and date, of Icacorea 

 guianensis Aubl. (Ardisia acuminata Willd.) of the southern West Indies and 

 northern South America, and this is mentioned by Jones, but it has disap- 

 peared. 



Icacorea solanacea (Roxb.) Britton, Asiatic, seen in Devonshire Church- 

 yard in 1912, is a shrub or small tree up to 12 high, with obovate, acuminate 

 leaves 7' long or less and purplish, slender-peddcelled flowers in lateral and 

 axillary umbels. [Ardisia solanacea Roxb.] 



Order 3. EBENALES. 



Shrubs or trees, with alternate simple leaves, the flowers mostly regular. 

 Calyx free from the ovary (inferior) or more or less adnate to it. Corolla 

 gamopetalous or sometimes polypetalous. Stamens borne on the tube or 

 base of the corolla, as many as its lobes, and opposite them, or more 

 numerous. 



Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes. Fam. 1. SAPOTACEAE. 



Stamens twice as many as the corolla-lobes, or more. Fam. 2. EBENACEAE. 



Family 1. SAPOTACEAE Reichenb. 

 SAPODILLA FAMILY. 



Shrubs or trees, mostly with a milky juice. Leaves entire, mostly 

 coriaceous and estipulate. Flowers small, regular and perfect, in axillary 

 clusters. Calyx inferior, the sepals usually 4-7, much imbricated. Corolla 

 gamopetalous, the tube 4-7-lobed, the lobes imbricated in the bud, some- 

 times with as many or twice as many lobe-like appendages on the throat. 

 Stamens as many as the proper lobes of the corolla and inserted on its 

 tube; staminodia usually present, alternate with the corolla-lobes; anthers 

 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 2-5-celled, or rarely 

 many-celled; ovules solitary in each cavity, anatropous or amphitropous; 

 stigma simple. Fruit a fleshy berry. Seeds large, the testa bony or crus- 

 taceous ; embryo straight ; endosperm fleshy, or none. About 35 genera 

 and 425 species, mostly of tropical regions. There are no native nor natural- 

 ized species in Bermuda. 



