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evenly distributed rather large open ducts and many thin medullary rays. It is brown tinged with red, 
with lighter colored sapwood composed of thirty to forty layers of annual growth. The specific gravity 
of the absolutely dry wood is 0.8992, a cubic foot weighing 56.04 pounds.’ 
Calyptranthes Chytraculia was first described by Patrick Browne in the Natural History of 
Jamaica, published in 1756 ;” and in Florida was first noticed by Dr. J. L. Blodgett. According to 
Aiton,’ it was introduced into English gardens in 1778. 
1 In Florida Calyptranthes Chytraculia grows very slowly. The 2 Chytraculia arborea, foliis ovatis glabris oppositis, racemis termi- 
trunk of this tree in the Jesup Collection of North American  nalibus, 239, t. 37, f. 2. 
Woods in the American Museum of Natural History in New York 8 Hort. Kew. ed. 2, iii. 192. 
is five and a half inches in diameter, and displays one hundred and 
thirty-six layers of annual growth. 
