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ICACOREA PANICULATA. 
Marlberry. Cherry. 
FLOWERS in broad terminal many-flowered panicles; corolla-lobes sinistrorsely 
contorted in estivation. Fruit black. Leaves ovate to lanceolate-oblong or lanceolate- 
obovate. 
Icacorea paniculata, Sudworth, Garden and Forest, vi. 324 A. de Candolle, Ann. Sci. Nat. sér. 2, xvi. 95; Prodr. 
(1893). viii. 124. — Chapman, FV. 277. — Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. 
Cyrilla paniculata, Nuttall, Am. Jour. Sci. v. 290 (1822). ii. 65. — Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census U. S. 
Pickeringia paniculata, Nuttall, Jour. Phil. Acad. vii. ix. 100. 
pt. i. 95 (1834). — De Candolle, Prodr. vii. 733. Bladhia paniculata, Sudworth, Garden and Forest, iv. 239 
Ardisia Pickeringia, Nuttall, Sylva, iii. 69, t. 102 (1849).— (1891). 
A slender tree, in Florida rarely more than twenty feet in height, with a short trunk four or five 
inches in diameter, many thin upright branches which form a narrow formal head, stout terete often 
contorted branchlets, and fibrous roots. The bark of the trunk, which is an eighth of an inch thick 
and is light gray or nearly white and roughened with minute lenticels, separates into large thin papery 
plates disclosing the dark brown inner bark. The branchlets, when they first appear, are rusty brown 
or dark orange-colored and slightly puberulous, and in their second year are dark red-brown or ashy 
gray and marked with many minute circular lenticels and with thin nearly orbicular flat leaf-scars which 
display in the centre a group of fibro-vascular bundle-scars. The leaves are ovate to lanceolate-oblong 
or lanceolate-obovate, acute or rounded at the narrow apex, wedge-shaped and gradually contracted at 
the base into stout grooved petioles, and entire, with thickened and slightly revolute margins ; they are 
three to six inches long, an inch to an inch and a half broad, thick and coriaceous, glabrous and marked 
with minute scattered black dots, dark yellow-green on the upper surface and pale below, with broad 
midribs yellow and conspicuous on the under side and slightly grooved on the upper, slender obscure 
primary veins and reticulate veinlets ; they appear late in the summer or in early autumn and fall before 
the trees flower in the following year. The fragrant flowers are produced in terminal rusty brown 
puberulous panicles three or four inches in length and breadth, the branches being often developed 
from the axils of the upper leaves; they are borne on slender elongated pedicels without bractlets and 
developed from the axils of linear acute caducous bracts; in Florida they usually open in November, 
although sometimes as early as J uly. The calyx is ovate and is divided nearly to the base into five ovate 
acute lobes, scarious and ciliate on the margins and marked on the back with dark lines. The corolla is 
five-parted, with oblong rounded divisions sinistrorsely overlapping, or with one lobe wholly outside and 
one inside in the bud, which is oblong, ovate, acute, and marked with longitudinal black lines, and near 
the apex with a few minute bright red spots; after opening, the lobes, which are conspicuously marked 
with red spots on the inner surface near the base, become reflexed. The stamens consist of short broad 
filaments contracted by a geniculate fold in the middle, and of large sagittate orange-colored anthers 
longer than the filaments, their cells opening longitudinally almost to the base. The ovary is glandular, 
globose, and gradually contracted into a long slender style tipped with a simple stigma, and, before the 
opening of the corolla, exserted from its apex. The fruit, which ripens in early spring, is globose, a 
quarter of an inch in diameter, surrounded at the base by the persistent calyx, tapped with the remnants 
of the style and roughened with resinous glands; when fully grown it is at first dark brown but ulti- 
mately becomes black and lustrous; the flesh is thin and dry, and adheres to the thin crustaceous light 
