THEOPHRASTACEiE 735 



coast, and from the shores of the Caloosa River to Cape Romano on the west 

 coast; usually a shrub, occasionally arborescent on the shores of Bay Biscayne and 

 on some of the southern keys; also on the Bahama Islands, Cuba, and in southern 

 Mexico. 



LI. THEOPHRASTACEiE. 



Trees or shrubs, with watery juice, and entire coriaceous persistent leaves. 

 Flowers perfect, regular ; calyx campanulate, with 5 sepals imbricated in the 

 bud ; corolla 5-lobed, the lobes imbricated in the bud, with 5 staminodia at- 

 tached below the sinuses ; stamens 5, attached to the base of the corolla-tube, 

 opposite the lobes ; ovary 1-celled, with a simple style and a slightly 5-lobed 

 stigma ; ovules peltate, numerous, attached to a central fleshy placenta, amphi- 

 tropous. Fruit baccate, many-seeded. Seeds immersed in the thickened placenta , 

 filling the cavity of the fruit ; seed-coat membranaceous ; embryo surrounded^ 

 by thick cartilaginous albumen. 



1. JACQUINIA, Jacq. 



Trees or shrubs, with terete or slightly many-angled branchlets, and fibrous roots. 

 Leaves often punctate, with pellucid dark glands. Flowers on slender ebracteolate 

 pedicels from the axils of minute ovate acute persistent bracts, in terminal or axil- 

 lary clusters; calyx slightly ciliate on the margins, rounded at the apex, persistent; 

 corolla hypogynous, the lobes obtuse and spreading, furnished with 5 petal-like ovate 

 obtuse spreading staminodia; stamens inserted on the corolla opposite its lobes near 

 the base of the short tube; filaments flattened, broad at the base; anthers oblong or 

 ovate, attached on the back above the base, extrorse, 2-celled, the cells opening lon- 

 gitudinally; ovary ovoid. Fruit ovoid or subglobose, crowned by the remnants of 

 the persistent style, with a thin crustaceous outer coat, inclosing the thick enlarged 

 mucilaginous placenta. Seeds oblong; seed-coat punctate; embryo eccentric; coty- 

 ledons ovate, shorter than the elongated inferior radicle turned toward the broad 

 ventral hilum. 



Jacquinia with thirty-three species is confined to tropical America, with one species 

 reaching southern Florida. 



The generic name is in honor of Nicholas Joseph Jacquin (1728-1818). 



1. Jacquinia Keyensis, Metz. Joe Wood. 



(Jacquinia armillaris, Silva N. Am. vi. 157.) 



Leaves subverticillate, alternate, or sometimes opposite, crowded near the ends of 

 the branches, cuneate-spatulate or obovate-obloug, rounded or emarginate or often 

 apiculate at the apex, gradually narrowed below, entire, with thickened slightly revo- 

 lute margins, thick and coriaceous, yellow-green, nearly veinless, with very obscure 

 midribs, covered on the low^r surface with pale dots, l'-3' long, ^-1' wide, persistent 

 on the branches until the appearance of the new leaves the following year; their 

 petioles short, stout, abruptly enlarged at the base. FloTvers appearing in Florida 

 from November until Jime, ^ in diameter, pale yellow, on slender club-shaped pedi- 

 cels 1' long from the axils of minute ovate coriaceous reddish bracts slightly ciliate 

 on the margins, in terminal and axillary many-flowered glabrous racemes 2'-3' long. 

 Fruit ripening in the autumn, ^' in diameter, orange-red when fully ripe; seeds 

 light brown. 



