CASHEW FAMILY 129 



Phyllanthits platylepis, whose short branches with small 

 oval leaves resemble pinnate leaves, has become a common 

 weed in citrus groves. The leaves are not actually pin- 

 nate, as the apparent leaflets are small alternate leaves, 

 and the branches are beaded with tiny drooping green flow- 

 ers and capsules from the leaf -axils. 



CEOWBEREY FAMILY (Empetraceae) 

 Heath-like evergreen shrub with needle-like leaves. 



EosEMAEY {Ceratiola ericoides) 



On the wide stretches of Florida's driest pine barrens 

 this rosemary forms densely branched evergreen shrubs, 

 several feet in height and in diameter, which under a hot 

 sun give out an aromatic fragrance. 



To the careless observer the needle-like leaves, barely 

 half an inch long, might suggest relationship with the 

 firs, but this shrub is very far from being allied to the 

 conifers. 



The leaves, and the branches also, are in whorls, and 

 the margins of the leaves are so strongly rolled backward 

 that the leaves are almost tubular. Minute reddish flow- 

 ers, with two bracts, two fringed sepals, two petals, and 

 two stamens, are sessile in the leaf-axils, and are followed 

 by small, yellowish, two-seeded drupes. 



CASHEW FAMILY (Anacardmceae) 



Shrubs and trees. Leaves alternate, of 3 or more leaflets. 

 Flowers minute, greenish. Fruit a drupe. 



This family, like many others, is remarkable for the 

 widely different qualities of its members. The mango, 

 which has been called the most delicious fruit in the 

 world, is cousin to the notorious poison ivy, as well as to 



