27C> MYKSINACK-K. (mYUSINE lAMIl.Y.) 



OiiDEK 83. TilEOPlIUASTACE.i:. (Tiikoi-iiuasta 

 Family.) 



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

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



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

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

 trorse, 2-celled, the thickened connective prolonged above the cells. 

 Ovary free, 1-celled, many-ovulcKl. Placenta central, globose. Stigma 

 capitate. Fruit globose. Seeds few, enclosed in gelatinous pulp. Em- 

 bryo in the axis of copious albumen, lladicle inferior. 



1. JACQUINIA, L. 



Caly.K-lobcs obtuse. Corolla bell-shaped, with ovate obtuse appendages. 

 Stamens inserted on tlie base of the corolla: fdamcnts 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. armillai'is, Jacq. ? Brandies pubcruknt; leaves wedgc-obovate, 

 smooth, eniarginate, 3-uerved, punctate, sliort-pctioled, the margins revolute; 

 racemes chiefly terminal, somewhat fleshy, many-flowered, rather longer than 

 the leaves ; bracts ovate ; pedicels erect, club-sha]jcd ; corolla short, bell-shaped, 

 fleshy, the tube shorter than the rounded lobes ; stamens short ; the filaments 

 dilated and connate at the base, lining the l)ase of tlie corolla ; fruit subglobose. 



— South Florida. — Leaves 1' -1|' long. Fruit 5" in diameter, orange-red. 



Order 84. MYRSINACE^. (Myrsixe 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 - 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 at 

 the base. Embryo transverse, in hard albumen. 



1. MYRSINE, L. 



Flowers polygamo-dioecious. Calyx 4 - 5-parted. Corolla 4 - 5-cleft, imbri- 

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

 longer than the filaments, opening from the base upward. Style sliort : stigma 

 capitate. Ovules 4 - .5, amphitropous. Drupe globose, 1-seeded. — Leaves 

 coriaceous. Flowers small, iu axillary clusters, on short pedicels. 



