178 RUBIACEZ. (MADDER FAMILY.) 
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anthers thick, cohering in an ovoid-oblong 5-angled tube. Style single, as long 
as the anthers, villous ; stigma obtuse, 2-lobed. Ovary 2 —4-celled with a single 
ovule in each cell Fruit a 2 — 4-celled, 1 - 4-seeded drupe. — A low maritime 
shrub. Branches roughened by the persistent stipules, trichotomous. Leaves 
ternate, very rigid, linear, obtuse, entire, the margins revolute. Flowers small, 
in axillary racemes, shorter than the leaves. Corolla pubescent. Drupe small, ` 
red. 
1. S. maritima, Jacq. — South Florida, Dr. Blodgett. 
12. GUETTARDA, L. 
Calyx-tube ovoid, the limb tubular, scarcely toothed. Corolla salver-shaped, 
4- 9-lobed, naked in the throat. Anthers 4-9, sessile in the throat of the c — 
rolla. Style simple. Stigma mostly capitate. Fruit composed of 4—9 one-seeded — 
bony carpels, united. — Trees or shrubs, with ovate or lanceolate leaves, and. : 
lanceolate deciduous stipules. Peduncles axillary, forking. Flowers sessile. 
1. G. Blodgettii, Shuttl Leaves membranaceous, elliptical, slightly mu- 
cronate, feather-veined, rough above, the lower surface, especially the veins, like 
the branches and cymes, covered with appressed silky hairs; cymes shorter that 
the leaves, 5 — 10-flowered ; flowers silky, tetramerous (rarely trimerous) ; stigma 
entire ; fruit globose, com jiii of 4 nutlets surrounded by 8 empty cells; calyx- — — 
limb truncate, cleft on one side. — South Florida. — Leaves 1 - 11! long. Fruit 
as large as a pea. i : 
2. G. ambigua, DC. Leaves coriaceous, elliptical or somewhat obovate, 
cordate at the base, rugose, muricate above, the lower surface, like the branches 
and cymes, rusty-tomentose; cymes longer than the leaves, several-flowered ; 
fruit globose, 4-seeded, without empty cells. — South Florida. — Leaves larget 
than in No. 1. 
13. ERITHALIS, Browhe. 
` Calyx ovoid, obscurely 4 — 10-toothed. Corolla somewhat rotate, 4 — 10-parted, 
with linear spreading lobes. Stamens 4— 10, inserted on the base of the corolla: 
anthers linear. Style simple. Stigma 2-lipped. Fruit globose, ribbed, com- 
posed of 4-10 one-seeded bony earpels. Seeds suspended. — Smooth shrubs, 
with opposite petioled leaves, broad and short mucronate sheathing stipules, 
axillary panicled flowers. 
. X. EK. fruticosa, L. Leaves coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, shining, Bu x 
into a petiole; panicles about as long as the leaves, many-flowered; flowers — 
tetramerous, small; fruit 5-ribbed, 6-10-celled. — South Floride. — 
3! me Flowers small, white. 
M. HAMELIA, Jacq. 
. , Corolla tubular, PAM fea conn Lr 
