114 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. RUBIACEZ. 
The wood of Guettarda elliptica is heavy, hard, very close-grained, with a satiny surface suscep- 
tible of receiving a beautiful polish ; it contains many thin medullary rays and numerous small scattered 
open ducts, and is light brown tinged with red, with thin sapwood composed of six to ten layers of 
annual growth. The specific gravity of the absolutely dry wood is 0.8337, a cubic foot weighing 51.96 
pounds." 
Guettarda elliptica was discovered in Florida by Dr. J. L. Blodgett on Key West. 
1 In Florida Guettarda elliptica grows slowly. The specimen is six inches in diameter and shows sixty-six layers of annual 
collected on Key West for the Jesup Collection of North American growth. 
Woods in the American Museum of Natural History in New York 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Puiate CCXXIX. GuvETTARDA ELLIPTICA. 
. A flowering branch, natural size. 
. Diagram of a flower. 
A flower, enlarged. 
. Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 
A stamen, enlarged. 
An ovule, much magnified. 
. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
. Vertical section of a fruit, enlarged. 
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. Cross section of a fruit, enlarged. 
. A seed, enlarged. 
- An embryo, much magnified. 
. Portion of a young branch showing stipule, enlarged. 
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