27G MYKSINACE^. (mTRSINE FAMILY.) 



Order 83. TIIEOPHRASTACE.E. (Theophrasta 



Family.) 



Trees or shrubs, -with watery juice. Leaves coriaceous, often resinous- 

 dotted, without stipules. Flowers perfect, thick, white, orange, or red. 



— Calyx o-parted. Corolla 5-cleft, with a single appendage between the 

 lobes. Stamens 5, fertile, opposite the lobes of the corolla : anthers ex- 

 trorse, 2-cclk'd, tlie 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 bcll-sliiipcd, with ovate obtuse appendages. 

 Stamens inserted on the base of the corolla: filamcius broad and Hat. Style 

 cylindrical from a conical base : stigma capitate, 5-aiigled. Berry pointed, 3 - 

 10-bceded. Albumen hard. — Leaves entire, short-petioled. Flowers in racemes. 



1. J. ar miliar is, Jacq. ? Branches puberulent; leaves wedge-obovate, 

 smooth, cmarginate, 3-nervcd, punctate, short-petioled, the margins revolute ; 

 racemes chiefly terminal, somewliat fleshy, many-flowered, ratlicr 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 I'-li' long. Fruit 5" in diameter, orange-red. 



Order 84. MYRSINACE^E. (Myrsine Family.) 



Trees or shrubs, often glandular-dotted, with alternate exstipulate 

 mostly entire leaves, and regular, often monoecious or dioecious, white 

 or rose-colored flowers. — Calyx 4 - 6-parted. Corolla 4 - C-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 dru|)aceous, glo- 

 bose, somewliat fleshy, commonly 1-seeded. Seeds roundish, concave at 

 the base. Embryo transverse, in hard albumen. 



1. MYRSINE, L. 



Flowers polygnmo-dia-cious. Calyx 4 - 5-])arted. Corolla 4 - 5-cUTt, imbri- 

 cated in the bud. Stamens 4 -.5, inserted on tlie base of the corolla : anthers 

 longer than the (ibimcnts, o|)Pning from the base upwanl. Style siiort : stigma 

 capitate. Ovules 4-.'), amiihilropous. Drupe glolio.se, I -seeded. — Leaves 

 coriaceous. Flowers small, in a.xillary clu.stcrs, on short jicdiccls. 



