30 RUBIACEiE. Guettarda. 



G. SCabra, Lam. Arborescent: leaves obovate to oblong (4 or 5 inches long), mucronate, 

 coriaceuns, at length rugose, hispidulous-papillose and scalirous above, soft-pubescent be- 

 neatli ; primary veins (9 to 11 pairs) very prominent beneath and veinlets between well reticu- 

 lated : peduncles elongated : corolla often inch long ; tube retrorsely silky-villous ; lobes 5, 

 rarely 6 or 7 : drupe quarter-inch in diameter, 4-6-ceUed. — 111. t. 154, f. 3 ; Vent. Choix, 

 t. 1 ; "dC. 1. c. 456 ; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 322. G. amhigua, Chapm. Fl. 178, not UC. Malhiola 

 scnhru, L. Spec. ii. 1192. — S. Florida, Chapman, Garber. (W. Ind.) 



Gr. elliptica, Swartz. Arborescent : leaves from broadly oval to elliptical-oblong (inch or 

 two long), thinnish, pilose-pubescent, often glabrate, at least above; primary veins 4 to 6 

 pairs ; transverse veinlets not prominent : peduncles and small cymes shorter than the 

 leaves , flowers usually 4-merous ; corolla quarter-inch long, externally canescent : drupe 

 size of a pea, 4-8-cellecl, 4-2-seeded. — Prodr. 59, & Fl. Ind. Ucc. i. 635 ; DC. 1. c. 457 ; Torr. 

 & Gray, Fl. ii. 35 ; Griseb. 1. c. G. Blodgettii, Shuttlew. di.strib. coll. Rugel ; Chapm. Fl. 

 178. — S. Florida, first coll. by Bhdgelt. (W. Ind., Mex.) 



14. ERITHALIS, p. Browne. (Ancient Greek name of some plant, from 

 cpi, very much, and OaXXoq, green shoot. Pliny applied it to some green Sedum, 

 and P. Browne to this lucid green shrub.) — West Indian littoral shrubs or low 

 trees, very smooth and resiniferous : the following is the principal species. 



E. fruticosa, L. Leaves mostly obovate, about 2 inches long, coriaceous : cymes pedun- 

 culate, many-flowered : border of the calyx repand-truucate : corolla white, quarter-inch 

 long ; lobes widely spreading : drupes not over 2 lines in diameter, purple. — Spec. ed. 2, 

 ii. 251; DC. Prodr. iv. 465; Desc. Fl. Ant. t. 242; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 35; Griseb. Fl. 

 W. Ind. 336. E. friUicidosa, &c., P. Browne, Jam. 165, t. 17, f, 3. E. odovifera, Jacq. Stirp. 

 Amer. 72, t. 173, f. 23. —Shores and Keys of S. Florida. (All W. Ind.) 



15. CHIOCOCCA, p. Browne. Snowberry. (Xiwv, snow, kokkos, berry.) 

 — Tropical American shrubs, commonly sarmentose or twining, glabrous ; with 

 coriaceous shining leaves on short petioles, and small yellowish-white flowers in 

 axillary racemes or panicles ; the small berry -like drupes at maturity white. — 

 P. Browne, Jam. 164; Jacq. Stirp. Amer. G8 ; L. Gen. ed. 6, 92. — Some species 

 are obviously heterogone-dimorphous I 



C. racemosa, L. Usuallj- twining and climbing : leaves from ovate or oval to lanceolate- 

 oblong, shining, about equalled by the racemiform panicles : corolla short-fuunelform, at most 

 4 lines long : anthers included : mature drupe quarter-inch in diameter and globose ; only the 

 immature flattened and when dried didymous. — Spec. ed. 2, i. 246 ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 284; 

 Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 93 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 482 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 32. Lonicera alba, L. Spec, 

 ed. 1, 175. — Var. parvifolia (C. paruifolia, Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 337) is a smaller-leaved and 

 low form, mostly with simple and shorter racemes. — Coast and Keys of Florida. (W. Ind. 

 to S. Am.) 



16. PSYCHOTRIA, L. (Name changed by Linnteus from the original 

 Psychotrophum of P. Browne, which was formed of i/'i^x'?' ^^^^^ ^^^ Tpo^^> nour- 

 ishment : seeds used as a substitute for coffee.) — A large genus of shrubs, of most 

 tropical regions, commonly with membranaceous leaves, and small flowers in naked 

 terminal cymes ; in some heterogone-dimorphous. — Psychotrophum & Myrsti- 

 phyllum, P. Browne. 



P. Undata, Jacq. Shrub 8 to 18 feet high, with woody spreading branches, glabrous or 

 with some ferruginous pubescence : stipules rather large, broad, blunt, united and sheathing, 

 sphacelate-scarious, caducous (the sheath usually splitting down one side) : leaves from oval 

 to elliptical lanceolate, acuminate at both ends ; primary veins transverse or little ascending: 

 cyme sessile, of about 3 primary rays and secondary divisions : corolla white or whitish, vil- 

 lous in the throat, with lobes shorter than tube : drupes red, ellipsoidal when dry (subrotund, 

 Jacquin), the nutlets striate-costate on the back. — Hort. Schcenb. iii. 5, t. 260; DC. Prodr, 



