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■i. CALYPTRANTHES Sw. Shrubs or trees. Leaf-blades not ribbed. 

 Flowers in teriiiiiial panicles. Calyx cap-like, deciduous. Berry crowned with 

 the top of the hypanthium. Seeds 1 or 2. [Chytraculia P. Br.] — Stopper. 



Calyx-lid not mamraillate : hypanthium pubescent: leaf-blades manifestly petioled. 



1. C. pallens. 

 Calyx-Iid mammillate : hypanthium glabrous : leaf-blades sessile or 



nearly so. -■ G. Zuzygium. 



1. C. pallens (Poir.) Griseb. A shrub, or tree becoming 9 m. tall, the bark 

 light-gray or nearly white, smooth or ultimately scaly, the branchlets 2-edged: 

 leaf-blades ellipticor oval, varying to broader above or below the middle, 3-5 

 cm. long, or rarely larger, mostly short-acuminate, pubescent beneath, at least 

 when young, manifestly petioled: inflorescence pubescent: hypanthium about 

 2 mm. wide in anthesis: calyx pubescent, less than 2 mm. in diameter: fruits 

 subglobose or oval, 5-7 mm. in diameter, pubescent: seeds about 4 mm. long. 

 —Hammocks.— F. K. (Bah., Cuba, J?it.)— Spicewood. 



2. C. Zuzygium (L.) Sw. A shrub, or tree becoming 12 m. tall, the bark pale- 

 gray, smooth, the branchlets terete: leaf -blades oval or elliptic, varying to 

 ovate or obovate, 4-6 cm. long, obtuse or abruptly blunt-tipped, glabrous, 

 sessile or nearly so: inflorescence glabrous: hypanthium about 4 mm. wide in 

 anthesis: calyx glabrous 3.5-4 mm. wide: fruits subglobose or spheroidal, 8-10 

 mm. in diameter, glabrous: seeds about 5 mm. long. — Hammocks. — (Bah., 

 Cuba, Ant.) — Myrtle-of-the-river. 



Family 6. RHIZOPHORACEAE. Mangrove Family. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves usually opposite: blades entire or toothed. 

 Flowers perfect, solitaiy or variously clustered. Calyx of 3 or 4 valvate 

 sepals. Corolla of 3 or 4 thick petals. Androecium of twice or thrice as 

 many stamens as sepals, or of 4 times as many. Gynoecium of 2-5 united 

 carpels. Ovary inferior, at least partly so. Stjdes mostly united. Fruit 

 a leathery berry crowned with or surrounded by the calyx. 



1. RHIZOPHORA L. Evergreen trees. Leaf-blades leathery. Flowers 

 2-several in peduncled clusters. Sepals 4, leathery. Petals 4, leathery. 

 Stamens 4-12. Ovary 2-celled, produced into a fleshy cone at maturity. Fruit 

 pendulous, the seed germinating and sending out a long radicle before the 

 fruit falls. 



1. R. Mangle L. Shrub, or tree becoming 10 m. tall, forming impenetrable 

 thickets on salt or brackish shores: leaf -blades elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 5-15 

 cm. long: sepals lanceolate, about 10 mm. long: petals pale-yellow, linear or 

 nearly so: fruits 2-3 cm. long, the precocious radicle clavate. — Salt and brack- 

 ish shores and coastal hammocks. — F. K. {Ber., Bah., Ciiba, Ant.) — Mangrove. 



Family 7. EPILOBIACEAE. Evexixg-primrose Family. 



Herbs or rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite : blades simple. 

 Flowers typically perfect. Hypanthium often elongate. Calyx of 2-6, 

 usually 4, sepals. Corolla of 2-9, usually 4, petals, or rarely wanting. 

 Androecium of as many stamens as the sepals or tw-ice as many. Gynoe- 

 cium of several, usually 4, united carpels. Ovary 1-6-celled, usually 4- 

 celled, inferior. Fruit capsular or nut-like. 



Fruit a many-seeded capsule. 



Hypanthium not prolonged beyond the ovary. 

 Stamens 4, in 1 row. 



