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emarginate or aeutish; sepals ovate, ciliate; petals suborbieular, about - nun. 

 long, ciliate, about as long as the sepals; drupes ovoid, black, 5-7 mm. 1- 



Coppices and scrub-lands, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island. Wat- 

 ling's Island, Great Exuma. Long Island. Acklin's Island, Crooked Island, Fortune 

 Island and Inagua : Florida: Cuba to Porto Kico ; St. Martin and Anguilla ; Ja- 

 maica. White Ikon wood. Ebony. 



Order 15. RHAMNALES. 



Shrubs, vines, or small trees, with nearly always alternate leaves. 

 Flowers small, regular. Sepals mostly more or less united. Petals dis- 

 tinct or wanting. Stamens as many as the sepals or calyx-lobes and alter- 

 nate with them, opposite the petals when these are present. Ovary com- 

 pound, superior; ovules erect. 



Shrubs, small trees, or vines : petals 4 or 5, or none : fruit a drupe or capsule. 



Fam. 1. Kha.mnaceae. 

 Vines, climbing by tendrils, rarely shrubs ; petals caducous ; 



fruit a berry. Fam. 2. Vitaceae. 



Family 1. RHAMNACEAE Dumort. 



Buckthorn Family. 



Erect or climbing shrubs, or small trees, often thorny. Leaves simple, 

 stipulate, mainly alternate, often 3-5-nerved. Stipules small, deciduous. 

 Inflorescence commonly of cymes or panicles. Flowers small, regular, 

 perfect or polygamous. Calyx-limb 4-5-toothed or 4-5-lobed. Petals 4-5, 

 inserted on the calyx, or none. Stamens 4-5, inserted with the petals 

 and opposite them; anthers short, versatile. Disk fleshy. Ovary sessile. 

 free from or immersed in the disk, 2-5- (often 3-) celled; ovules 1 or 2 in 

 each cavity, anatropous. Fruit often 3-celled. Seeds solitary in the 

 cavities, erect; endosperm fleshy, rarely none; embryo lai'ge; cotyledons 

 flat. About 50 genera and 600 species, of temperate and warm regions. 



Fruit drupaceous. 



Petals none ; plants unarmed. 



Endosperm ruminated : pit of the drupe thick-walled. 1. Reynosia. 



Endosperm none; pit of the drupe thin-walled. 2. Krugiodendron. 



Petals 5; young twigs spiny. 3. Sarcomphalus. 



Fruit dry, separating into nutlets. 



Trees and shrubs; fruit seated in the calyx. 4. Oolvbrina. 



Woody vines; nutlets winged. 5. Gouania. 



1. REYNOSIA Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 33. 1866. 



Shrubs or small trees, with entire short-petioled opposite leaves, and 

 small perfect yellowish green flowers in axillary clusters. Calyx-lobes valvate, 

 spreading. Disk fleshy. Petals none. Stamens 5; filaments subulate. Ovary 

 2-3-celled; styles short and thick; stigma 2-3dobed ; ovules 1 in cadi cavity, 

 erect. Fruit a drape with thin flesh and a hard stone. [Dedicate. I to Alvaro 

 Reynoso, a Cuban chemist am! agriculturist, who died in isss.| About 9 spe< 

 of the West Indies and Florida. Type species: Eeynosia retusa Griseb. 



Leaves obovate to elliptic; petioles 1.5-3 mm.; drupe subglo- 



l.nsc .,r ovoid. I. ''' Beptentrionam. 



Leaves oblong to lanceolate; petioles." 7 mm.; drupe ellipsoid. 2, R. Northropiana. 



