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3. M.? latifolia, Swartz. Smooth ; branchlets 4-angled ; leaves opposite, — 
coriaceous, obovate, rounded or emarginate at the apex, narrowed at the base 
into a short petiole, the margins revolute and obscurely crenate ; cymes axillary 
and terminal, shorter than the leaves, widely spreading, few-flowered, or in the 
more sterile plant many-flowered ; sepals roundish, much shorter than the oblong 
petals; disk with four emarginate lobes alternating with the stamens; ovary 
2-celled, with a single suspended ovule in each cell; stigma sessile, 2-lobed ; 
drupe ovoid, l-seeded; embryo large, in thin albumen.— South Florida. — 
Shrub 8°-10° high, Leaves 1/ long. 
2. SCHJEFFERIA, Jacq. 
Flowers dicecious. Sepals 4, barely united at the base, rounded, 3-furrowed. 
Petals 4, spatulate-oblong, much longer than the calyx. Stamens 4. Ovary 
2-celled. Stigmas 2, sessile. Drupe dry, 2-celled, 2-seeded. Embryo in oily 
albumen. Radicle inferior. — Shrubs or trees, with alternate leaves and small 
greenish flowers in axillary clusters. 
1. S. frutescens, Jacq. Smooth; leaves obovate-oblong, entire, acute or 
obtuse; flowers 3—5 in a cluster, the slender pedicels arising from a wartlike — 
peduncle; drupe globose. — South Florida. —.A small tree with hard and close- ` 
grained wood. Leaves 1}! long, pale green. E 
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3. EUONYMUS, L. SPINDLE-TREE. 
- Flowers perfect. Calyx flat, 4— 5-cleft. Petals 4-5, spreading. Stamens 
4 — 5, very short, inserted with the petals under the broad and fleshy disk which 
surrounds the ovary. Ovary 3-5-celled, with 2 erect or resupinate ovules in 
each cell Style very short. Capsule 3—5-celled, loculicidally 3 —5-valved. 
Seed enclosed in a red pulpy aril.— Erect or trailing shrubs, with 4-angled 
branches, opposite serrate leaves, and greenish or purplish flowers in axillary 
peduncled cymes. 
1. E. Americanus, L. (Srrawserry Busm.) Flowers greenish, a 
pentamerous ; peduncles 1-3-flowered ; capsule warty; leaves short-petioled, 
varying from ovate or obovate to linear-lanceolate, serrulate. — Low shady 
woods, Florida and northward, May and June. — Shrub 3°-6° high. Leaves 
1/~2' long. 
2. E. atropurpureus, Jacq. Flowers udin tetramerous ; pedit P 
many-flowered ; capsule smooth ; leaves oblong, on rather long petioles, serru- — 
late. — River-banks, Florida and northward. May and June. — Shrub eo = 
Ec oe Flowers dark purple. : a 
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