154 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. MYRSINEACEE. 
brown stone. The seed is conspicuously lobed at the base and covered with a thin bright red-brown 
resinous-punctate coat. 
Icacorea paniculata is distributed in Florida from Mosquito Inlet to the southern keys on the east 
coast, and from the shores of the Caloosa River to Cape Romano on the west coast. Usually a shrub, 
on the shores of Bay Biscayne and on some of the southern keys it occasionally attains the size and 
habit of a tree. It also inhabits the Bahama Islands,’ Cuba,” and southern Mexico.* 
The wood of Icacorea paniculata is heavy, hard, very close-grained, and susceptible of receiving a 
beautiful polish ; it contains numerous conspicuous medullary rays, and is rich brown beautifully 
marked with darker medullary rays, with thick lighter colored sapwood. The specific gravity of the 
absolutely dry wood is 0.8602, a cubic foot weighing 53.61 pounds. 
Icacorea paniculata was first discovered early in the present century in eastern Florida by 
Nathaniel A. Ware.' 
1 Eggers, No. 4196. 8 Hemsley, Bot. Biol. Am. Cent. ii. 294. 
2 Grisebach, Cat. Pl. Cub. 163. 4 See i. 86. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Pratt CCXL. IcacoREA PANICULATA. 
. A flowering branch, natural size. 
. Diagram of a flower. 
A flower, enlarged. 
. Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 
. A corolla, displayed, enlarged. 
. A flower, the corolla removed, enlarged. 
. An ovule, much magnified. 
NAAR OD 
PiateE CCXLI. Icacorza PANICULATA. 
1. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
2. A fruit, enlarged. 
3. Vertical section of a fruit, enlarged. 
4. A seed, enlarged. 
5. An embryo, much magnified. 
