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angular, acute ; stamens exserted ; drupe ovoid-conic, about 8 mm. long, tomen- 

 tulose, slightly curved, the persistent calyx at length deciduous. 



Thickets and scrub-lands. Andros, New Providence, North and South Caicos and 

 Inagua : Florida ; West Indies ; Panama. Referred to by Hitchcock as Buceras 

 angiistifolia (DC.) Hitchcock. Erroneously called OAK. BLACK OLIVE. 



2. Bucida spinosa (Northrop) Jennings, Ann. Cam. Mus. 11: 201. 1917. 

 Terminalia spinosa Northrop, Mem. Torr. Club 12: 54. 1902. 



A shrub or flat-topped tree, 48 m. high, with spreading branches, the 

 trunk 1.5-2 dm., in diameter, the twigs divaricate, spiny. Leaves fascicled, 

 subse?sile, oblanceolate to spatulate, 1-2.5 cm. long, 46 mm. wide, firm in 

 texture, glabrous, entire, obtuse or retuse at the apex, narrowed at the base; 

 spines slender, 3-7 mm. long, mostly in 3 's at the ends of the twigs; flowers 

 few, greenish, in axillary short peduncled spikes; calyx campanuiate, about 

 3 mm. long, subtruncate, villous within; stamens 8 or 9, about 3 mm. long; 

 drupe ovoid, 3-4 mm. long, the calyx rather early deciduous. 



Coastal and savanna coppices and scrub-lands, Great Bahama and Andros : 

 Cuba. SPINY BLACK OLIVE. BRIER-TREE. PRICKLY-TREE. 



2. LAGUNCULAKIA Gaertn. f. Fr. & Sem. 3: 209. 1805. 



A halophytic tree or shrub, with opposite entire leaves, the petioles 2- 

 glandular, and small greenish flowers in clustered spikes. Flowers polyga- 

 mous or perfect. Calyx-tube terete, 5-lobed. Petals 5, minute. Stamens 10, 

 short, the filaments subulate, the anthers cordate. Ovary with a scalloped 

 epigynous disk ; style short, glabrous ; stigma somewhat 2-lobed ; ovules 2 in 

 each cavity. Drupes coriaceous, ribbed or angled. Seed solitary, germinat- 

 ing within the drupe. [Latin, from the fancied resemblance of the drupe to 

 a flask.] A monotypic genus. 



1. Laguncularia racemosa (L.) Gaertn. f. Fr. & Sem. 3: 209. 1805. 

 Conocarpus racemosa L. Syst. ed. 10, 930. 1759. 



A tree, reaching a maximum height of about 20 m. with a trunk up to 

 8 dm. in diameter, usually much smaller, and often shrubby, the reddish brown, 

 glabrous twigs thickened at the nodes. Leaves oblong, oval or obovate, 2-7 

 cm. long, emarginate or rounded at the apex, rounded, narrowed or subcordate 

 at the base, the stout petioles 0.5-2 cm. long; spikes 3-6 cm. long, few- 

 several-flowered ; calyx tomentulose, its lobes rounded ; petals 5, orbicular, not 

 longer than the calyx; drupes oblong to obovoid, reddish, 1.5-2 cm. long, 

 . constricted below the persistent calyx-lobes. 



Borders of mangrove mud and in sea-shallows. Great Bahama, Great Sturrup 

 Cay, Little Harbor Cay, Andros, New Providence, Ship Channel Cay, Great Guana 

 Cay, Great Exuma, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Fortune Island. Grand "Turk, and the 

 Anguilla Isles : Florida : West Indies ; tropic continental American coasts. WHITE 

 MANGROVE. BASTARD BUTTON-WOOD. GREEX TURTLE BOUGH. 



3. TERMINALIA L. Mant. 1: 21, 128. 1767. 



Trees or shrubs, with broad alternate entire leaves, usually clusteed at 

 the ends of the banches, and small spicate flowers. Calyx-tube terete, rib- 

 less, the lobes deciduous. Corolla none. -Stamens 10 to 20, exserted, the fila- 

 ments slender, the anthers cordate. Fruit a drupe. [Latin, referring to the 

 clustered leaves at the ends of the branches.] About 100 species, mostly of 

 the Old World tropics. Type species: Terminalia Catappa L. 



