118 CHENOPODIACEAE. 



petioles 8-15 mm. long; ocreae appressed, as long as the petioles or shorter; 

 inflorescence spicate, slender, longer than the leaves; flowers green, very nearly 

 sessile, 2-2.5 mm. long; fruit ovoid, pointed, 6-10 mm. long, coronate, the peri- 

 carp slightly fleshy. 



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

 and Great Bahama to Caicos Islands and Inagua : Hispaniola to Porto Rico, 

 Virgin Gorda and Barbadoes ; Jamaica, Aruba ; Curacao ; Bonaire. Leaves and fruit 

 smaller than in specimens from the Windward Islands. TiErTONGUE. 



C. Coccolobis Krugii Lindau, Bot. Jahrb. 13: 145. 1890. 



A glabrous shrub or small tree, sometimes about 8 m. high, the slender 

 twigs short and numerous, the bark smooth, gray. Leaves broadly ovate or 

 nearly orbicular, light green, subcoriaceous, rounded or obtuse at the apex, 

 cordate or subcordate at the base, 6 em. long or less, inconspicuously veined 

 above, densely finely reticulate-veined beneath, the rather stout petioles 48 

 mm. long, the ocreae appressed, short; spikes very slender, glabrous, mostly as 

 long as the leaves or shorter, loosely flowered; pedicels less than 0.5 mm. long; 

 perianth green, about 1.5 mm. lon% ; stamens white ; fruit ovoid or ovoid- 

 globose, 4-6 mm. long, slightly ribbed, black, capped by the perianth-segment3, 

 the pericarp somewhat fleshy. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, New Providence, Cat Island. Watling's Island, 

 Crooked Island, Acklin's Island. Fortune Island, Caicos Islands, Inagua : Porto 

 Rico ; Jamaica ; Anegada ; St. Martin ; Barbuda. Crab-wood. Bow-pigeox. 



Order 9. CHENOPODIALES. 



Herbs, mostly with perfect flowers. Calyx present. Corolla, if pres- 

 ent, polypetalous. Ovary superior. Embryo coiled, curved or annular. 

 Fruit not an achene, rarely achene-like. 



Fruit not capsular, a utricle, berry, anthocarp or achene-like ; corolla none. 

 Fruit a utricle. 



Flowers bractless, or if bracted, the bracts not 



scarious. Fam. 1. Chexopodiaceae. 



Flowers with scarious bracts. Fam. 2. Amaraxthaceae. 



Fruit not a utricle. 



Fruit an anthocarp. Fam. 3. Nyctagixaceae. 



Fruit not an anthocarp. 



Fruit aggregate. Fam. 4. Batidaceae. 



Fruit not aggregate. Fam. 5. Phytolaccaceae. 



Fruit a capsule, dehiscent by valves or teeth. 



Capsule 2-several-celled ; corolla none. Fam. 6. Aizoaceae. 



Capsule 1-celled ; petals mostly present. 



Sepals 5 or 4. Fam. 1. Alsinaceae. 



Sepals only 2. Fam. 8. Portulacaceae. 



Family 1. CHENOPODIACEAE Dumort. 



Goosefoot Family. 



Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs, with angled striate or terete 

 stems. Leaves alternate or sometimes opposite, estipulate, simple, en- 

 tire, toothed or lobed, mostly petioled (in Salicornia reduced to mere 

 scales). Flowers small, green or greenish, regular or slightly irregular, 

 variously clustered, occasionally solitary in the axils. Petals none. Calyx 

 persistent, 2-5-lobed, 2-5-parted or rarely reduced to a single sepal, want- 

 ing in the pistillate flowers of some genera. Stamens as many as the 

 lobes or divisions of the calyx, or fewer, and opposite them; filaments 

 slender; anthers 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent. Disk usually none. 



