276 MYRSINACEH. (MYRSINE FAMILY.) 
Orper 88. THEOPHRASTACEA. (TuroPHRASTA 
FAMILY.) 
Trees or shrubs, with watery juice. Leaves coriaceous, often resinous- 
dotted, without stipules. Flowers perfect, thick, white, orange, or red. 
— Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-cleft, with a single appendage between the 
lobes. Stamens 5, fertile, opposite the lobes of the corolla: anthers ex- 
trorse, 2-celled, the thickened connective prolonged above the cells. 
Ovary free, 1-celled, many-ovuled. Placenta central, globose. Stigma 
capitate. Fruit globose. Seeds few, enclosed in gelatinous pulp. Em- 
bryo in the axis of copious albumen. Radicle inferior. 
1, JACQUINIA, L. 
Calyx-lobes obtuse. Corolla bell-shaped, with ovate obtuse appendages. 
Stamens inserted on the base of the corolla: filaments broad and flat. Style 
cylindrical from a conical base: stigma capitate, 5-angled. Berry pointed, 3- 
10-seeded. Albumen hard. — Leaves entire, short-petioled. Flowers in racemes. 
1. J. armillaris, Jacq.? Branches puberulent; leaves wedge-obovate, 
smooth, emarginate, 3-nerved, punctate, short-petioled, the margins revolute; 
racemes chiefly terminal, somewhat fleshy, many-flowered, rather longer than 
the leaves; bracts ovate; pedicels erect, club-shaped ; corolla short, bell-shaped, 
fleshy, the tube shorter than the rounded lobes; stamens short; the filaments 
dilated and connate at the base, lining the base of the corolla; fruit subglobose. 
— South Florida. — Leaves 1!-14/ long. Fruit 5" in diameter, orange-red. 
ORDER 84. MYRSINACEJE. (Myrsine FAMILY) 
Trees or shrubs, often glandular-dotted, with alternate exstipulate 
mostly entire leaves, and regular, often monæcious or diccious, white 
or rose-colored flowers. — Calyx 4 —6-parted. Corolla 4 — 6-cleft. Sta- 
mens 4—6, opposite the lobes of the corolla: anthers 2-celled, introrse- 
Ovary mostly free, 1-celled, smooth: ovules 1—many, imbedded in the 
cavities of the central placenta. Style simple. Fruit drupaceous, glo- 
bose, somewhat fleshy, commonly 1-seeded. Seeds roundish, concave x 
the base. Embryo transverse, in hard albumen. 
RIS 1. MYRSINE, L. E: 
cated in the bud. Stamens 4-5, inserted on the base of the corolla: anthers 
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