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4-5, often wanting. Stamens 4 - 15, inserted with the petals on the 

 calyx. Style slender : stigma simj^le. Fruit drupaceous or baccate, 

 or dry and indehiscent, often winged. Seed solitary, susjiended, 

 anatropous, wivhout albumen. Cotyledons convolute or variously 

 folded. 



1. LAGUNCULARIA, Gtert. 



Flowers in a spike. Calyx tube obconical, the limb 5-parted, obtuse, per- 

 sistent. Petals 5, miuute. Stamens 10. Style subulate; stigma capitate. 

 Ovary 1-celled, 2-ovule(i. Drupe coriaceous, cuneate-obovate, compressed, 

 angled, 1-seeded. Seeds germinatiug in the drupe. Cotyledons convolute. 

 "Radicle elongated. — Maritime slirubs, with opposite elliptical smooth and 

 fleshy leaves, on bigiaudular petioles, and small flowers, in simple or com- 

 pound axillary and terminal spikes. 



1. L. raceraosa, Ga3rt. Spikes erect, rigid, hoary-tomeutose, the lateral 

 ones solitary, the terminal in threes, simjjle or Ijranched ; flowers scattered ; 

 calyx tube obconical, furrowed, wing-angled in fruit. — South Florida. June 

 - August. — A shrub or small tree, with the habit of the Mangrove. 



2. L. glabriflora, Presl. Spikes spreading, slender, smooth, the lateral 

 ones in pairs, the terminal in threes or fours ; flowers minute, crowded, de- 

 ciduous ; calyx-tube cup-shaped, terete, even, with two opposite bractlets 

 appressed to the sides. — Banks of the Manatee Rivei', South Florida {Rugel). 

 Juue. — Perhaps a sterile form of the jirecediug. 



2. CONOCARPUS, Ga;rt. 



Flowers densely crowded in a globular head. Calyx tube about as long as 

 the compressed 2-ovuled ovary ; the limb 5-cleft. deciduous. Petals none. 

 Stamens 5-10, exserted. Authors cordate. Fruit coriaceous, .scale-like, 

 closely imbricated and indehiscent. Cotyledons convolute. — Trees or slirubs, 

 with alternate entire and somewhat fleshy leaves. Heads of flowers spiked 

 or panicled. 



1. C. erecta, Jacq. Branehlets angular, smooth; leaves smooth, oblong 

 or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, narrowed into a biglandular petiole ; heads 

 of flowers sessile, or on short spreading pedicels; cone of fruit ovoid. — Var. 

 SERiCEA, DC. Branches, leaves, and j^anicles silky and hoary; lowest leaves 

 mostly obovate and obtuse or emargiuate ; ovary abortive. — Sandy sea- 

 shore, Tampa Bay, Florida, and southward. Jan. - Feb. — A slu-ub or 

 small tree. Leaves 2' -4' long. Heads of fruit 3" -6" long. Flowers 

 greenish, minute. 



3. TERMINALIA, L. 



Flowers in spikes, often polygamous. Limb of the calyx deciduous, bell- 

 shaped, .5-cleft, with the lobes acute. Petals none. Stamens 10, in 2 rows, 

 longer than the calyx. Ovary 2 - 3-ovuled. Style filiform. Drupe dry and 

 indehiscent, 1-seeded. Seed almond-like. Cotyledons spirally convolute. — 

 Trees or shrubs, with mostly alternate leaves, which are crowded at the sum- 

 mit of the branches. 



