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1-seeded. Endosperm fleshy. [Commemorates Charles Le Forestier, a French 

 physician.] About 10 American species. Type species: Forestiera acuminata 

 (Michx.) Poir. 



1. Forestiera segregata (Jacq.) Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 15: 339. 1893. 



Myrica segregata Jacq. Coll. 2: 273. 1788. 

 Adelia porulosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 224. 1803. 

 Adelia segregata Kuntze, Kev. Gen. PI. 410. 1891. 

 Foresteria cassinoides Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 2: 665. 1812. 

 Forestiera segregata stenocarpa Krug & Urban, Bot. Jahrb. 15 : 340. 

 1893. 



A shrub, or a small tree up to 7 m. high and a trunk diameter of 1.5 dm., 

 the branches slender. Leaves rather firm in texture, oblong to lanceolate or 

 obovate, 1.5-6 cm. long, obtuse or acutish at the apex, narrowed at the base, 

 shining above, pale and reticulate-veined beneath, punctate when dry, short- 

 petioled; flowers very small, yellowish green; drupes oblong to oval, 6-10 mm. 

 long, short-pedicelled, purplish, the stone longitudinally ribbed. 



Scrub-lands, throughout the islands from Abaco and Great Bahama to Mariguana 

 and Grand Turk : 'Bermuda ; Florida ; Cuba to St. Croix ; Tortola ; Jamaica. 

 PLOEIDA PRIVET. INK-BUSH. 



2. JASMINTJM L. Sp. PI. 7. 1753. 



Shrubs or woody vines, with mostly opposite, simple or compound leaves, 

 and large, clustered or solitary flowers. Calyx lobed or parted. Corolla salver- 

 form, its tube cylindric, its limb lobed or parted, the lobes imbricated. Stamens 



2, included; filaments short; anthers laterally dehiscent. Ovary 2-celled; style 

 very slender; stigma capitate or 2-lobed; ovules mostly 2 in each cavity. Fruit 

 didymous, fleshy. Seeds without endosperm. [Ancient name, of Arabic 

 origin.] About 100 species, natives of the Old World. Type species: Jasmi- 

 num officinale L. 



1. Jasminum Sambac (L.) Soland. ; Ait. Hort. Kew. 1: 8. 1789. 

 Nyctanthes Sambac L. Sp. PI. 6. 1753. 



A shrub, 1-2 m. high, the young shoots sparingly pubescent. Leaves 

 ovate to elliptic, membranous, deciduous, 3-7 cm. long, acute, obtuse or short- 

 acuminate at the apex, rounded or obtuse at the base, glabrous and finely 

 reticulate-veined on both sides, the pubescent petioles 3-6 mm. long; cymes 

 peduncled, terminal, few-several-flowered, pubescent; pedicels 6-12 mm. long; 

 calyx-segments numerous, linear, about 1 cm. long; corolla white, fragrant, its 

 tube somewhat longer than the calyx, its limb about 2 em. wide, the lobes 

 obtuse. 



Presumably spontaneous after cultivation, New Providence, collected by Cooper 

 in 1859 : Escaped from cultivation in various West Indian Islands and in South 

 America. Native of the East Indies. ARABIAN JASMINE. 



3. MAYEPEA Aubl. PI. Guian. 1: 81. 1775. 



Trees or shrubs, with opposite entire leaves, the rather large, mostly white 

 bracteolate flowers usually panicled. Calyx small, 4-cleft or 4-toothed. Petals 

 4, distinct or very nearly so, narrow. Stamens 2, rarely 4,- borne at the bases 

 of the petals; filaments short; anthers ovate to linear. Ovary 2-eelled; ovules 



