394 OLACINE^. Ximenia. 



minal undivided stigma. Fruit a 1-celled 1-seeded drupe ; seed with a simple 

 thin coat, becoming spuriously erect by placental adhesion ; embryo minute at 

 apex of fleshy albumen. 



1. XIMENIA. Calyx small, 4-5-toothed, persistent, not enlarging. Petals 4 or 5, narrow, 

 the whole inner face densely bearded. Stamens 8 or 10, with filiform filaments and linear 

 anthers. Ovary conical, 3-5-celled at base. Drupe naked. 



2. SCHCEPFIA. Calyx small, 2-6-dentate or entire, at length deciduous or obsolete. Petals 



4 to 6, united into a tubular or campanulate corolla, the free tips reflexed in anthesis. Stamens 

 as many as the lobes; filiform filaments aduate to the tube of the corolla; a little fascicle 

 of hairs behind each ; anthers short. Hypogynous disk cupulate, aduate to lower half of 

 the partly 3-celled ovary, in fruit becoming fleshy and adnate, investing all but the summit 

 of the small drupe. 



1. XIMENIA, Plum, (father Francis Ximenes, early missionary to W. 



Indies, &c.) — Shrubs and low trees, often s^ainescent, with entire glabrous 



leaves, commonly becoming vertical by a twist of the petiole, and fragrant whitish 



flowers in sessile or short-peduncled axillary clusters : the fruit edible. — Nov. 



Gen. 6, t. 21 ; L. Gen. no. 902. 



X. Americana, L. (Mountain Plum of W. lud., PIog Plum, Wild Lime.) Very gla- 

 brous : trunk 10 to 15 feet high, with very hard and tough wood: leaves oblong, mucronate 

 from retuse apex, 2 inches long: flowers usually 4-merous: petals 5 lines long, j-ellowish or 

 greenish-white with the dense beard becoming rusty : fruit the size of a small plum, acid- 

 ulous. — Spec, ii. 1193; Descourt. Fl. Ant. ii. t. 132; Chapm. Fl. 61 ; J:ngler in Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. xii. pt. 2, 9, t. 2. X. multiflora, Jacq. Stirp. Am. 106, t. 177. — S. Florida.i (W. Ind. 

 to Brazil, S. Pacif. Ids. to Africa.) 



X. RAMOSissiMA, Shuttl. iu distr. pi. Rugel, no. 87, is Bumelia angustifolia, Nutt. Sylv. iii. 

 38, t. 93 ; corolla and stamens fallen. 



2. SCHC&PFIA, Schreb. (Dr. J. D. Schcepf, surgeon of Hessian troops 



sent to America in 1777, who published " Materia Medica Americana.") — Shrubs 



or small trees, with leaves not unlike those of Ximenia, or thinner, and similar 



inflorescence. — Gen. 129; A. DC. Prodr. xiv. 622; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 310; 



Engler, 1. c. 34, t. 7, no. 4. Codonium, Vahl, Skrivt. Natur. Selsk. Kj^b. ii. 



pt. 1, 206. Diplocalyx, A. Rich. Fl. Cub. ii. 81, t. 54. 



S. Sclireberi, Gmel. Tall shrub, glabrous : leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, mostly ob- 

 lique and obtusely acuminate, about 2 inches long : peduncles very short, bearing 2 or 3 

 sessile flowers : corolla yellow, short-campanulate, about 2 lines long; its ovate lobes a third 

 or nearly half the length of the tube (minutely puberulent or glabrous) : drupe ovoid, 4 or 



5 lines "long. — Syst. 376 (1791); Lam. 111. ii. 51. S. Americana, Willd. Spec. i. 996. S. 

 arborescens, Rcem. & Schult. Syst. v. 160; DC. Prodr. iv. 319, xiv. 622; Chapm. Fl. ed. 2, 

 611. S. arborescens, & S. Marchii, Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 310. S. ckri/sophijlloides. Planch. 

 Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 4, ii. 261, founded on Diplocalyx chrysophijUoides, A. Rich. Fl. Cub. ii. 81, 

 t. 54. Codonium arborescens, Vahl, Skrivt. Natur. Selsk. Kj(^b. ii. pt. 1, 207, t. 6, & Symb. 

 Bot. iii. 36 (1794). — S. Florida, Chapman, Palmer (outside of corolla and inside of lobes 

 minutely puberulent), Garber (with corolla glabrous or lobes obsoletely puberulent, the S. 

 chrysophylloides) ; the forms evidently of one species. ( W. Ind., Mex.) 



1 As far north as Lake Co., Central Peninsular Florida, Nash. 



