358 EHKETIACEAE. 



as long as the calyx, its limb 2.5-4 cm. broad; drupe round, 5-lobed, white, 

 pointed, 2-4 em. long, the flesh thin. 



Scrub-lands, Abaco, North Bimini, Gun Cay, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, 

 Long Island, Crooked Island, Fortune Island, Inagua, Grand Turk, Cay Sal and 

 Water Cay : Florida ; Cuba to Tortola and to Trinidad ; Mexico. Catesby, 2 : pi. 91. 

 GEIGEK TBEE. ANACONDA. SPANISH COEDIA. 



2. VARRONIA P. Browne, Hist. Jam. 172. 1756. 



Shrubs, or small trees, with scabrous or pubescent leaves, the small, usually 

 white flowers variously clustered, mostly sessile in heads, spikes or glomerules. 

 Calyx 4 5-toothed. Corolla salverform or fmmelform, the limb 4-5-lobed. 

 Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, mostly included. Ovary 4-celled. Styles 

 2-eleft; stigmas small, capitate. Fruit a small, slightly fleshy drupe, often 

 little longer than the calyx-tube and sometimes enclosed by it, contain- 

 ing 4 nutlets or fewer. [In honor of Marcus Yarro, a distinguished Koman, 

 born 116 B.C., died 27 B.C.] Seventy species or more, of tropical and sub- 

 tropical America. Type species: Laniana corymbosa L. 



Flowers in globose heads. 



Calxy-teeth filiform ; leaves coarsely serrate. 1. V. ylobosa. 



Calyx-teeth triangular with linear tips ; leaves entire or with 



a few teeth. 2. V. baliamcnsis. 



Flowers in spikes. 



Leaves linear-oblong to oblanceolate ; filaments pilose at the 



base. 3. V. Brittonii, 



Leaves spatulate-obovate ; filaments glabrous. 4. V. lucayana. 



1. Varronia globosa Jacq. Enum. 14. 1760. 



Cordia glolosa H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 3: 76. 1818. 



A usually much-branched shrub, 1-3 m. high, the slender twigs hispid. 

 Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, 1.5-6 cm. long, rather coarsely 

 serrate, short-petioled, rough and papillose-hispid above, pubescent and strongly 

 veined beneath, acute or bluntish at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base ; 

 flowers in dense globular peduncled heads, the peduncles mostly shorter than 

 the leaves; calyx hispid, 5-cleft, 6-8 mm. long, its teeth nearly filiform; corolla 

 white, about 6 mm. long; drupe red, about 4 mm. long. 



Scrub-lands. Andros, New Providence, Long Island, and Watling's : Florida ; 

 Cuba to Porto Rico and Trinidad ; Jamaica : Cayman Islands ; Curacao ; Mexico to 

 northern South America. CAPITATE VARKONIA. 



2. Varronia bahamensis (Urban) Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 310. 1909. 



Cordia bahamensis Urban, Symb. Ant, 1: 392. 1900. 



A usually much-branched shrub, 1-2 m. high, rarely a small tree 3-4 rn. 

 high, the branches slender, the young shoots appressed-setulose. Leaves various, 

 linear-oblong to elliptic or obovate-elliptie, '2-10 cm. long,, 0.5-5 em. wide, acute, 

 obtuse or rounded at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base, entire or few- 

 toothed, subcoriaceous, setulose-scabrous above, pilose beneath, at least on the 

 veins, the petioles 4-20 mm. long; peduncles as long as the leaves or shorter; 

 flowers capitate; heads several-many-flowered; calyx loosely pubescent, 4-5- 

 lobed, the lobes triangular with slender tips 2-3 mm. long; corolla white, sub- 

 cylindric, 4-5-lobed, 3-4 mm. long, its lobes ovate, obtuse; drupe ovoid, obtuse, 

 red to black, about 4 mm. long. 



Scrub-lands, coppices and savannas, throughout the archipelago from Abaco 

 and Great Bahama to Andros, Mai-iguana, North Caicos and Inagua :- Cuban Cays ; 

 Anegada. Recorded by Grisebach, by Mrs. Northrop, and by Dolley as Cordia Lima 

 R. & S.. and by Hitchcock as Cordia glfibtmii H.B.K., and Cordia sp. The species is 

 composed of several races with leaves varying from linear and quite entire to 

 broadly ovate or obovate and slightly toothed. ROUGH VARRONIA. COCOBEY. 



