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obovate or oval, 2-3.5 mm. long; ovary glabrous; stigma sessile; drupe globose 

 to ellipsoid, black, 5-8 mm. long, glaucous. 



Coastal thickets and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and 

 Great Bahama to Caicos and Inagua : Florida : West Indies and Central America. 

 Referred by Dolley to Ann/rls sylratica Jacq. TORCHWOOD. WHITE TORCH. 

 Catesby, 2 : pi. 33. 



Ami/ris l>ijit(/a of Schoepf is listed by him as a name only and not identified; 

 his record of A. si/li-alica has not been substantiated. 



The Glycosmis pentapliylla recorded by Dolley, is Amyrls elemifera L. 

 according to the specimen collected by Brace. 



Family 7. SURIANACEAE Lindl. 



BAY CEDAR FAMILY. 

 The family consists only of the following genus. 



1. SURIANA L. Sp. PL 284. 1753. 



A branching shrub or small tree, with simple alternate entire leaves, the 

 perfect flowers in terminal clusters or solitary. 'Calyx of 5 persistent sepals. 

 Corolla of 5 imbricated petals. Stamens 10; filaments nearly distinct, those 

 opposite the petals shorter than the others. Disk adnate to the base of the 

 calyx, or obsolete. Carpels 5, distinct; ovules 2, collateral, ascending; styles 

 5, lateral, filiform; stigmas capitate. Fruits achene-like. Embryo thick, horse- 

 shoe-shaped. [Named for Joseph Donat Surian, of Marseilles.] A monotypic 

 genus. 



1. Suriana maritima L. Sp. PI. 284. 1753. 



Usually a shrub 2 m. high or less, sometimes a small tree up to 8 m. high, 

 the twigs densely leafy, and densely pubescent. Leaves linear-spatulate, 14 

 cm. long, 26 mm. wide, rather fleshy, sessile, densely pubescent, obtuse; 

 flowers few, in short clusters ; sepals lanceolate to ovate, 6-10 mm. long, acumi- 

 nate ; petals obovate, yellow, 7-9 mm. long, erose near the apex ; fruiting car- 

 pels 4-5 mm. long, finely pubescent. 



Maritime sands and rocks, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great 

 Bahama to Sand Cay (Grand Turk), Inagua, the Anguilla Isles and Cay Sal: 

 Bermuda ; Florida : the West Indies : shores of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean 

 Sea ; Old World tropical coasts. BAY CEDAR. TASSEL PLANT. 



Family 8. SIMAROUBACEAE DC. 



QUASSIA FAMILY. 



Trees and shrubs, the bark usually bitter and containing oil-sacs, with 

 pinnate (rarely simple), mostly alternate leaves and small, dioecious or 

 polygamous, paniclecl racemose, or sometimes solitary, axillary flowers. 

 Calyx of 3-7 sepals. Corolla of as many petals, or wanting. Stamens as 

 many or twice as many as the petals, rarely more numerous. Carpels 2-5, 

 distinct or united; styles distinct, united or none; ovules mostly 1 or 2 in 

 each cavity. Fruit various, usually 1-seeded. About 30 genera, compris- 

 ing some 150 species, mostly tropical, a few in the temperate zones. 



