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segments lanceolate, acute or acuminate; petals obovate, 1-3 cm. long; capsules 

 6-10 mm. long, much shorter than the bractlets, 3-valved above. 



Rocky plains and white-lands, Abaco and Great Bahama to Andros, the Caicos 

 Islands. Grand Turk and Inagua : Bermuda ; Florida ; the West Indies ; Mexico to 

 tropical South America. Consists of numerous races, differing in leaf-form, pubes- 

 cence and size of flowers. BUTTERCUPS. YELLOW ALDER. LARGE-LEAVED TURNERA. 



2. Turnera diffusa Willd. ; Schultes, Syst. 6: 679. 1820. 

 Triads microphylla Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 297. 1860. 



A pubescent, much-branched shrub, 2 dm. to 1.3 m. high, the branches 

 slender, spreading. Leaves small, 5-20 mm. long, spatulate or oblaneeolate, 

 firm in texture, coarsely few-toothed, nearly sessile, deeply impressed-veined 

 and glabrous above, pubescent beneath,, mostly obtuse at the apex, attenuate 

 to the base, the margin revolute ; peduncles very short ; calyx 5-toothed ; petals 

 spatulate, 3-8 mm. long, much longer than the calyx-teeth ; stamens very short ; 

 capsule subglobose, about 1.5 mm. in diameter, 3-valved to the base. 



Rocky plains and white-lands, Whale Cay, Joulter's Cay, New Providence, Eleu- 

 thera, Cat Island, Rum Cay, Great Guana Cay, Great Exuma, Crooked Island, Ack- 

 lin's and Inagua : Cuba to Virgin Gorda and St. Croix. SMALL-LEAVED TURNERA. 



Family 6. FLACOURTIACEAE Lindl. 

 FLACOURTIA FAMILY. 



Trees or shrubs, with alternate simple, usually dentate leaves, the 

 stipules minute or wanting, the small regular flowers usually clustered, 

 perfect, dioecious or polygamous. Calyx 3-7-lobed or of 3-7 distinct 

 sepals. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes or sepals, or rarely more, or 

 wanting. Stamens few or numerous, in some genera alternating with 

 staminodia ; filaments distinct or connate; anthers 2-celled. Ovary su- 

 perior, 1-celled ; ovules few or numerous, on parietal placentae. Fruit cap- 

 sular or baccate. About 70 genera, including over 500 species, of tropical 

 regions. 



Petals present. 1- Banara. 

 Petals none. 



Stamens hypogynous ; leaves not punctate. 2. Myroxylon. 

 Stamens perigynous ; leaves mostly punctate. 



Style none : stamens numerous. 3. Zuelania. 



Style present ; stamens 6-15. 4. Casearia. 



I. BANARA Aubl. PI. Guian. 1: 547. 1775. 



Shrubs or trees with alternate petioled, somewhat inequilateral, usually 

 glandular-dentate and punctate leaves, small stipules, and small perfect 

 flowers in racemes, corymbs or panicles. Calyx persistent; 3-5-lobed, the lobes 

 valvate. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes and similar to them,, persistent, 

 imbricated. Stamens many, with filiform filaments; staminodia none. Ovary 

 superior, 1-celled or by intrusion of the placentae nearly several-celled; ovules 

 many; style slender; stigma capitate. Fruit a fleshy or leathery, indehiscent, 

 many-seeded berry. Seeds striate, the endosperm fleshy. [Guiana name.] 

 About 15 species, natives of tropical America. Type species: Banara guian- 

 ensis Aubl. 



