412 BUBTACEAE. 



1. Hamelia erecta Jacq. Enum. 16. 1760. 



Hamelia patens Jacq. Enum. 16. 1760. 



A shrub, or small tree up to about 4 m. high, with slender branches, the 

 twigs, leaves and inflorescence puberulent. Leaves opposite, or verticillate in 

 3 's to 5 's, thin, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 5-15 cm. long, acute or acuminate 

 at the apex, mostly narrowed at the base, the slender petioles one-fourth to 

 one-half as long as the blades; stipules lance-subulate, 2-3 mm. long; cymes 

 3-5-rayed; flowers numerous, very short-pedicelled ; corolla crimson to scarlet, 

 tubular, 12-20 mm. long, its lobes very short; berries dark red or purple, 5-6 

 mm. long, a little produced beyond the calyx. 



Coppices, New Providence : Florida ; West Indies ; continental tropical America. 

 Scarlet Hamblza. 



8. GUETTARDA L. Sp. PI. 991. 1753. 



Trees or shrubs, with opposite leaves and deciduous stipules, the axillary 

 cymose, or sometimes solitary flowers, perfect or polygamo-dioecious. Calyx 

 with an ovoid or globose tube, the limb tubular, rarely persistent, mostly trun- 

 cate or irregularly toothed. Corolla salverform, the tube elongated, sometimes 

 curved, the limb with 4-9 obtuse imbricated lobes. Stamens as many as the 

 corolla-lobes, borne on the corolla-tube; filaments very short or none; anthers 

 linear. Ovary 4-9-celled; ovules 1 in each cavity, pendulous; style filiform; 

 stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Fruit drupaceous. [In honor of Jean Etienne 

 Guettard, 1715-1786, French botanist.] Sixty species or more, mostly of 

 tropical America. Type species: Guettarda speeiosa L. 



Leaves coriaceous. 



Leaves scabrous above ; fruit 4-6 mm. in diameter. 1. G. scabra. 



Leaves smooth above; fruit 9-12 mm. in diameter. 2. G. Krugii. 



Leaves chartaceous or membranous. 



Leaves strongly reticulate-veined, and densely pale-pubescent 

 beneath : corolla 1-3 cm. long. 

 Inflorescence several-many-flowered. 



Leaves 9-12 cm. long, acute at apex; corolla 2 cm. Ion'". 3. G. Nashii. 

 Leaves 5 cm. long or less, rounded at apex ; corolla 1 cm. 



long. 4. G. Tavlori. 



Flowers solitary in the upper axils : corolla 3 cm. long. 5. G. inaguensis. 



Leaves not reticulate-veined, finely pubescent or glabrate be- 

 neath ; corolla about 6 mm. long. 6. G. elliptica. 



% 1. Guettarda scabra (L.) Lam. Tabl. Eneycl. 2: 218. 1819. 

 Matthiola scaora L. Sp. PI. 1192. 1753. 



A shrub or tree up to 10 m. high, the young twigs villous-tomentose. 

 Leaves elliptic to ovate or obovate, coriaceous, 3-15 cm. long, obtuse or short- 

 pointed and mucronate at the apex, subcordate or obtuse at the base, usually 

 very rough (rarely becoming smooth) above, densely reticulate-veined and 

 finely pubescent beneath, the stout pubescent petioles 0.5-2 cm. long; stipules 

 triangular-lanceolate, acute, 2-3 mm. long; peduncles few-flowered, 2-10 cm. 

 long; calyx finely pubescent, about 3 mm. long; corolla 1.5-2 cm. long, 

 appressed-riubescent, white, its oblong lobes much shorter than the tube; fruit 

 globose, red, finely pubescent, 46 mm. in diameter, the calyx-limb at length 

 wholly deciduous. Flowers fragrant. 



Scrub-lands and coppices, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros. New Providence, Eleu- 

 thera. Cat Island, Crooked Island. Mariguana, Caicos and Inagua : Florida ; Cuba 

 to Virgin Gorda and Martinique ; Jamaica ; continental tropical America. G. speeiosa 

 of Schoepf. ? Rough Velvet-seed. Velvet-berry. 



