256 RHAMNACEAE. 



1. Reynosia septentrionalis Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 356. 1899. 



Reynosia latifolia Chapm. Fl. S. U. S., ed. 2, 612. 1883. Not Griseb. 1866. 



Usually a shrub, sometimes a tree up to 9 m. high, with a trunk diameter 

 of 2 dm., the bark reddish-brown, splitting into thin plates, the wood dense and 

 heavy. Leaves opposite, elliptic to oval or obovate, 2-4 cm. long, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, rounded or emarginate at the apex, narrowed at the base, finely 

 reticulate-veined, revolute-margined, the petioles short; flowers yellowish green, 

 about 5 mm. wide in small axillary umbels; pedicels 4-5 mm. long; calyx-lobes 

 ovate, acute; drupe ovoid, dark purple, 1-1.5 cm. long, tipped with the base of 

 the style, the thin pulp edible, the stone hard. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, throughout the archipelago from Great Sturrup Cay, 

 the Biminis and Eleuthera, to Grand Turk, Inagua and Cay Sal : Florida. Recorded 

 by Hitchcock as Rhamnidium revolutum C. Wright. Common Reynosia. 



2. Reynosia Northropiana Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 315. 1902. 



A shrub, 1-2 m. high, the slender young twigs puberulent, soon becoming 

 glabrous. Stipules triangular, connate, lanceolate, 1-2 mm. long; leaves oppo- 

 site, subcoriaceous, oblong, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 3-8 cm. long, 1-2.5 

 cm. wide, rounded or emarginate at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, 

 obsoletely crenate or entire, dark green above, pale green beneath, finely reticu- 

 late-veined on both sides, the petioles 3-7 mm. long: cymes short-peduncled; 

 few-several-flowered; calyx about 2.5 mm. long, its 5 lobes triangular-ovate, 

 acute; petals half -orbicular, emarginate, nearly 1 mm. long; drupe ellipsoid, 

 obtuse, 6-8 mm. long. 



Thickets and coppices, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island and 

 Great Exuma. Endemic. Bahama Reynosia. 



2. KRUGIODENDRON Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 313. 1902. 



An unarmed evergreen tree or shrub, with entire short-petioled leaves, and 

 small perfect flowers subumbellate in the axils. Calyx mostly 5-parted, the 

 lobes much longer than the tube. Petals wanting. Stamens as many as the 

 calyx-lobes; filaments subulate; anthers obtuse. Disc annular, crenate. Ovary 

 short-conic; style short; stigmas 2, small; ovules 2. Drupe small, ovoid, the pit 

 thin-walled. Testa of the seed adherent to the endocarp; cotyledons semi- 

 globose, fleshy; endosperm none. [Greek, Krug's tree, in honor of Leopold 

 Krug, a student of the West Indian flora.] A monotypic genus. 



^ 1. Krugiodendron ferreum (Vahl) Urban, Symb. Ant. 3: 314. 1902. 



Rhamnus ferreus Vahl in West, St. Croix 276. 1793. 

 Ceanothus ferreus DC. Prodr. 2: 30. 1825. 

 Scutia ferrea Brongn. Ann. Sci. Nat. I. 10: 363. 1827. 

 Condalia ferrea Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 100. 1859. 

 Rhamnidium ferreum Sargent, Gard. & Flor. 4: 16. 1891. 



A tree, attaining a maximum height of about 10 m., with a trunk diameter 

 up to 5 dm., usually much smaller, often shrubby, the bark ridged, the branches 

 spreading, the young twigs tomentulose. Leaves mostly opposite, ovate to oval, 

 rather thin, 2-5 cm. long, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, rounded or nar- 

 rowed at the base, bright green above, dull beneath, nearly glabrous when 

 mature, the petioles 3-6 mm. long; flowers yellow T -green, about 4 mm. wide, in 

 axillary clusters much shorter than the leaves;' oalyx-lobes triangular-ovate; 

 stamens a little shorter than the calyx ; drupes globose or ovoid, black, 5-8 mm. 

 long, the stone bony. 



Coastal scrub-lands and thickets, Lignum Vitae and Great Harbor Cays, South 

 Cat Cay, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Watling's, Great Guana Cay, Great 

 Exuma. Long Island, Fortune. Crooked. Acklin's and Inagua : Florida ; Cuba to 

 Porto Rico, Anegada and St. Vincent ; Jamaica ; Bonaire. 



