320 SAPOTACEAE. 



1. Limonium bahamense (Griseb.) Britton, Bull. X. Y. Bot. Gard. 4: 142. 

 1906. 



Statice bahamensis Griseb. Fl. Br. W. I. 389. 1861. 



Perennial by a deep root; scapes several or many, erect, slender, much 

 branched, 2-4 dm. high, glabrous but scaly, fleshy, terete. Leaves linear or 

 narrowly spathulate, 5 cm. long or longer, mostly wanting at flowering time; 

 scales of the scape triangular-acuminate, scarious-margined, 2-4 mm. long; 

 spikes 1.5-4 cm. long, the flower-clusters densely aggregated; lower bractlet 

 ovate, obtuse, much shorter than the scarious-margined upper one; flowers 

 purple, about 5 mm. long. 



Salinas, South Caicos and Grand Turk Island. Endemic. Bahama Sea Laven- 

 der. Heather. 



Order 2. EBENALES. 



Shrubs or trees, with alternate simple leaves, the flowers mostly regular. 

 Calyx free from the ovary (inferior) or more or less adnate to it. Corolla 

 garnopetalous or sometimes polypetalous. Stamens borne on the tube or 

 base of the corolla, as many as its lobes, and opposite them, or more 

 numerous. 



Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes. Fam. 1. Sapotaceae. 



Stamens twice as many as the corolla-lobes, or more. Fam. 2. Ebenaceae. 



Family 1. SAPOTACEAE Reichenb. 



Sapodilla Family. 



Shrubs or trees, the sap often milky, the leaves mostly alternate, entire, 

 estipulate, often finely veined, the perfect or rarely polygamous flowers 

 clustered. Sepals 4-12, imbricated. Corolla lobed, often appendaged be- 

 tween the lobes. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, often alternating 

 with broad staminodia ; filaments distinct. Ovary sessile, 4-12-celled ; 

 styles united; ovules solitary in each cavity, anatropous. Fruit a berry, 

 often large. Seeds shining, smooth; embryo straight. About 35 genera, 

 comprising over 400 species, mostly of tropical distribution. 



Calyx 4-5-parted. 



Flowers without staminodia or corolla-appendages. 1. ChrysophiiUum. 

 Flowers with staminodia. 



Corolla without appendages. 



Seeds with abundant endosperm. 2. Sideroxylon. 



Seeds without endosperm. 3. Lucuma. 



Corolla with appendages. , 



Ovary smooth ; endosperm copious. 4. Dipholis. 



Ovary hairy ; endosperm little or none. 5. Bumelia. 

 Calvx 6-12-par'ted. 



Seeds only 1 or 2. 6. Mimusops. 



Seeds 4 or 5. 7. Sapota. 



1. CHRYSOPHYLLUM L. Sp. PI. 192. 1753. 



Unarmed evergreen trees, with alternate coriaceous leaves, and small, 

 mostly 5-parted flowers, in axillary or lateral fascicles, the sap milky. Sepals 

 nearly alike. Corolla-lobes unappendaged. Stamens included; staminodia 

 none. Ovary pubescent; style short. Fruit a large or small, drupe-like berry. 

 Seeds with a hard, often shining testa and fleshy endosperm. [Greek, refer- 



