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Corolla garno}:>etalous, rotate-cainpanulate or cylindric-campanulate, mostly 

 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated. Stamens 5, rarely 4, borne near the base of 

 the corolla-tube; filaments subulate or flattened; anthers mostly extrorse. 

 Staminodia 5. Ovary superior, 1-celled; style short or slender; stigma 

 capitate or discoid; ovules numerous. Fruit coriaceous or fleshy, inde- 

 hiscent, few-several-seeded. Five genera and about 50 species, of tropical 

 distribution. 



1. JACQUINIA L.; Jacq. Enum. 2, 15. 1769. 



Evergreen shrubs or small trees, with opposite or verticillate coriaceous 

 leaves, and small perfect white or yellow, racemed, corymbed or panicled 

 flowers. Sepals 5, imbricated. Corolla salverform or short-eampanulate, 5- 

 lobed, the lobes imbricated in the bud, spreading at anthesis. Staminodia 5, 

 borne on the corolla-tube. Stamens 5, borne on the base of the corolla-tube. 

 Ovary 5-carpellary; style short; ovules usually many. Fruit ovoid or globose, 

 coriaceous. Seeds compressed, with cartilaginous endosperm. [Commemorates 

 Nicolas Joseph von Jacquin, 1727-1817, distinguished Austrian botanist.] 

 About 25 species of tropical America. Type species: Jacquinia ruscifolia Jacq. 



Flowers single in the upper axils and in small terminal clusters. 1. J. Berterii. 



Flowers in terminal racemes. 2. J. ket/ensis. 



1. Jacquinia Berterii Spreng. Syst. 1: 668. 1825. 



Jacquinia Berterii retusa Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 378. 1899. 



A much-branched shrub, 1-3 m. high, or tree up to about 7 m. high, the 

 bark whitish, the young twigs scurfy-lepidote. Leaves various in form, oblong 

 to obovate or oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, 2-4 cm. long, rounded, retuse or 

 acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, usually inconspicuously veined, the 

 petioles 1-2 mm. long; inflorescence terminal or in the uppermost axils, 1-6- 

 flowered, much shorter than the leaves; pedicels 5-8 mm. long, thickened 

 upwardly in fruit ; sepals nearly orbicular, 1.5-2 mm. long, glabrous ; corolla 

 about 3 mm. long, its lobes reflexed; staminodia much shorter than the corolla- 

 lobes, somewhat longer than the stamens; fruit ovoid to subglobose, orange or 

 yellow, 6-8 mm. in diameter. 



Coppices. Cat Island. Watling's, Long Island, Acklin's and Stubb's Cay, Caicos 

 Islands : Cuba to Anegada and Guadeloupe. Berter's Jacquinia. 



*: 2. Jacquinia keyensis Mez in Urban, Symb. Ant. 2: 444. 1901. 



A tree, up to 6 m. high, with a trunk sometimes 2.5 dm. in diameter, the 

 nearly smooth bark light gray, the young twigs finely pubescent, somewhat 

 angled, densely leafy. Leaves oblong-obovate to spatulate, 3-7 cm. long, 

 obtuse or retuse and apiculate at the apex, narrowed at the base, glabrous, 

 shining above, dull beneath, the petioles short; racemes 6 cm. long or less; 

 pedicels stout, about 1 cm. long; sepals ovate-orbicular, obtuse; flowers very 

 fragrant ; corolla salverform, about 1 cm. broad, its lobes longer than the 

 tube; stamens shorter than the staminodia; berry subglobose, orange-red, 8-10 

 mm. in diameter, hard. 



Coastal rocks, coppices and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco 

 and Great Bahama to Grand Turk, Inagua and the Anguilla Isles : Florida : ("ays 

 of northern Cuba: Jamaica. Referred by Berrlck, by Dolley and by Hitchcock to 

 Jacquinia annularis Jacq. Joe-wood. Joe-bush. Ironwood. Catesby 1 : ;>/. 98. 



