584 TREES OF NOKTII AMERICA 



ing in Florida during the month of June, densely covered with tomentnm when they 

 first unfold, and at maturity sparingly hairy on the petioles and midribs of the 

 leaflets; leaflets ovate-lanceolate or elliptical and obtuse, often slightly falcate, 

 sometimes oblique at the base, nearly sessile or long-stalked, 2'-3' long, 1^-2' broad, 

 entire or slightly crenulate, coriaceous, pale yellow-green and conspicuously marked 

 by large pellucid glands. Flowers appearing in Florida in June, on slender pubes- 

 cent pedicels ^' or more long, in wide-spreading pubescent sessile cymes, the male 

 and female on different trees; calyx-lobes 5, minute, acuminate, ciliate on the mar- 

 gins, barely one eighth of the length of the ovate greenish white petals reflexed when 

 the flowers are fully expanded; stamens 5, with slender filaments much longer than 

 the petals, in the pistillate flower; pistils 2 or sometimes 1, with a stipitate obovate 

 ovary and a short style with a spreading entire stigma, minute and depressed in the 

 staminate flower. Fruit ripening in autumn and early winter and sometimes per- 

 sistent until the spring of the following year; mature carpels obliquely obovate. 



short-stalked, 1-seeded, pale chestnut-brown at maturity, about* ^' long, faintly 

 marked by minute glands. 



A round-headed tree, 30-35 high, with a trunk 12'-18' in diameter, and stout 

 brittle branchlets coated at first with thick silky pubescence, becoming light gray, 

 rugose, conspicuously marked by large triangular leaf-scars, and puberulous during 

 their second and third years. Winter-buds narrowly acuminate, 1' long, coated 

 with short thick pale tomentum. Bark of the trunk \' thick, with a smooth light 

 gray surface divided by shallow furrows and broken into numerous short appressed 

 scales. Wood very heavy, exceedingly hard, brittle, not strong, light orange-colored, 

 with thin rather lighter colored sapwood; occasionally used in southern Florida in 

 the manufacture of furniture, for the handles of tools, and other objects of domestic 

 use. 



Distribution. In Florida on the Marquesas Keys and on South Bahia Honda 



and Boca Chica Keys; on the Bahama Islands, Bermuda, San Domingo, and Porto 



Rico. 



4. Fagara coriacea, Kr. & Urb. 



Leaves equally pinnate, persistent, 2'-3' long, with stout grooved petioles, and 

 6-8 oblong-obovate stalked coriaceous dark yellow-green lustrous leaflets rounded 

 or rarely emarginate at the apex, l'-l|' long and |'-f' wide, with much-thickened 



