116 YITACEAE. 



1. K. ferreiun (Tahl) Urban. Shrub, or tree becoming 9 m. tall, the bark 

 ridged : leaf -blades ovate or oval, 3-6 cm. long : sepals ovate : drupes sub- 

 globose or oval, 5-8 mm. long, black. [Ehamnidium ferreum (Vahl) Sarg.] — 

 Hammocks. — F. K. {Bah., Ant.) — Black-ironwood. 



2. REYNOSIA Griseb. Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite: blades entire. 

 Flowers perfect. Sepals 5, crestless. Petals wanting. Stamens 5 : filaments 

 longer than the anthers. Drupe apiculate. 



1. R. septentrionalis Urban. Tree becoming 9 m. tall, the bark scaly: leaf- 

 blades oblong, varjang to ovate or obovate: sepals deltoid or ovate-deltoid: 

 drupes subglobose, oval, or obovoid, 1.5-2 cm. long, purple or nearly black. [E. 

 latifolia Sarg. Not Griseb.] Coastal hammocks and sand-dunes. — F. K. 

 ( Bah. ) — Eed-irox wood. Darling-plum. 



3. COLUBRINA L. C. Rich. Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate: blades 

 entire or toothed, sometimes 3-nerved at the base. Flowers perfect. Sepals 

 5, spreading, keeled within. Petals 5, folded around the stamens, elawless. 

 Stamens 5 : anthers notched. Drupe slightly 3-lobed, the carpels separating, at 

 least at the top. 



Drupes 4-6 mm. in diameter : pedicel abruptly dilated into the hypanthium : leaf- 

 blades glabrate, not rusty-tomentose. 1. C. reclinata. 



Drupes 8-10 mm. in diameter : pedicel gradually dilated into the 



hypanthium : leaf-blades rusty-tomentose beneath. 2. C. Coluhrina. 



1. C. reclinata (L'Her.) Brongn. Tree becoming 20 m. tall, with puberulent 

 twigs: leaf-blades ovate-oblong or rarely oval or obovate 3-8 cm. long: sepals 

 about 2 mm. long: petals about 1.5 mm. long: drupe slender-pedicelled, seated 

 on the shallow hypanthium. — HammockB. — F. K. {Bah., Cuba, Ant.) — 

 Nakedwood. 



2. C. Colubrina (Jacq.) Millsp. Shrub or small tree, with rusty-tomentose 

 twigs: leaf-lilades ovate, oblong, elliptic, or rarely oblanceolate, 5-15 cm. long: 

 sepals about 2.5 mm. long: petals somewhat longer than those of C. reclinata: 

 drupe stout-pedicelled, partly immersed in the deep hypanthium. — Hammocks. 

 — F. K. {Bah., Cuba, Ant.) — Wild-coffee. 



4. GOUANIA Jacq. Shrubs or vines. Leaves alternate: blades broad. 

 Flowers polygamous, the inflorescence-branches often tendril-bearing. Sepals 

 5, spreading. Petals 5, clawed, the blades scoop-like. Stamens 5, each sur- 

 rounded by a petal. Drupe capsule-like, 3-winged, separating into 3-carpels. 



1. G. lupuloides (L.) LTrban. Climber: leaf -blades oval or elliptic, varying 

 to ovate, 3-9 cm. long: spikes 6-15 cm. long: petals 1 mm. long, short-clawed: 

 drupes depressed, about 10 mm. broad. [G. domingensis L.] — Hammocks. — 

 F. K. {Bah., Cuba, A7it.) 



Family 2. VITACEAE. Grape Family. 



Vines, sometimes busliy or tree-like, usually with tendrils. Leaves 

 alternate, or the lower ones opposite : blades simple or compound. Flowers 

 perfect, polygamous, or dioecious, in flat-topped or elongate clusters. 

 Calyx of 4 or 5 sepals, or obsolete. Corolla of 4 or 5, often caducous, 

 petals, or wanting-. Androecium of 4 or 5 stamens opi30site the petals. 

 Gynoecium of usually 2 united carpels. Fruit a beriy. 



Hypogynous disk present, either annular, cup-shaped or glandular : leaf-blades simple 

 or tern.'itely compound. 

 Petals cohering into a cap, caducous, never separating. 



