MYRSINEACES. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 157 
JACQUINIA ARMILLARIS. 
Joe Wood. 
FLowers straw-colored, in terminal and axillary racemes. Leaves cuneate-spatulate 
or obovate-oblong. 
Jacquinia armillaris, Jacquin, Hnum. Pl. Carib. 15 (1760); 66. — Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th Census U. S. 
Hist. Stirp. Am. 53, t. 39; Hist. Select. Stirp. Am. 31, ix. 100. 
t. 56. — Linnzeus, Spec. ed. 2, 272.— Miller, Dict. ed. 8, Jacquinia arborea, Vahl, Eclog. i. 26 (1796). — Willde- 
No. 2.— Icon. Am. Gewiich. i. 15, t. 49. — Aiton, Hort. now, Spec. i. pt. ii. 1064. — Persoon, Syn. i. 234. — 
Kew. i. 257. — Lamarck, Dict. iii. 195; IZ. ii. 46, t. 121, Roemer & Schultes, Syst. iv. 490.— Sprengel, Syst. i. 
f. 1.— Willdenow, Spec. i. pt. ii. 1064; Hnum. 246. — 668. — Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 24. — Dietrich, Syn. i. 
Persoon, Syn. i. 234. — Roemer & Schultes, Syst. iv. 638. — A. de Candolle, Prodr. viii. 149. — Miquel, Mar- 
490. — Sprengel, Syst. i. 668.— Don, Gen. Syst. iv. tius Fl. Brasil. x. 282, t. 27, £. 2. 
24, — Dietrich, Syn. i. 638. — A. de Candolle, Prodr. viii. Jacquinia armillaris, 8. arborea, Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. 
149. — Chapman, /7. 276. — Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. ii. Ind. 397 (1864). 
A tree, twelve to fifteen feet in height, with a straight trunk six or seven inches in diameter, stout 
rigid spreading branches which form a compact regular round-topped head, and slightly many-angled 
branchlets. The bark of the trunk is thin, smooth, blue-gray, and usually more or less marked with 
pale or nearly white blotches. The branches, when they first appear, are yellow-green or light orange- 
colored and are coated with short soft pale or ferrugineous pubescence; in their second year they 
become terete, darker and sometimes reddish brown, and are marked with the nearly orbicular depressed 
conspicuous leaf-scars and with many scattered black dots; in their third year they turn red-brown or 
ashy gray and become glabrous. The leaves, which are alternate and crowded near the ends of the 
branches, are cuneate-spatulate or obovate-oblong, rounded or emarginate or often apiculate at the apex, 
gradually contracted below into short stout puberulous petioles abruptly enlarged at the base, and are 
entire, with thickened slightly revolute margins; they are thick and coriaceous, yellow-green, nearly 
veinless, with very obscure midribs, and covered on the lower surface with pale dots; they are from 
one to three inches in length and from a quarter of an inch to an inch in breadth, and remain on the 
branches until after the appearance of the new leaves of the following year. The flowers, which appear 
in Florida from November until June, are produced in terminal and axillary many-flowered glabrous 
racemes two or three inches long, on slender club-shaped pedicels half an inch in length and produced 
from the axils of minute ovate coriaceous reddish bracts which are slightly ciliate on the margins ; they 
are one third of an inch across when expanded, with pale straw-colored corollas. The fruit, which 
ripens in the autumn, is nearly globose, one third of an inch in diameter, and orange-red when fully ripe, 
with thin crustaceous walls inclosing the thick enlarged mucilaginous placenta in which are immersed 
the oblong rounded seeds covered with light red-brown punctate coats. 
In Florida Jacquinia armillaris is distributed from Sanibel Island to the southern keys and to 
the neighboring borders of the Everglades; it grows close to the shore on dry coral soil, and, always 
exceedingly rare, is most abundant and attains its largest size on the Marquesas Keys. It inhabits the 
Bahamas! and is scattered along the Antillian coasts’ to those of southern Mexico,’ Central America, 
Venezuela, and northern Brazil.” 
1 Hitchcock, .VWissouri Bot. Gard. iv. 104. 8 Bentham, Bot. Voy. Sulphur, 123.— Hemsley, Bot. Biol. Am. 
2 Vahl, Eclog. i. 26. — Swartz, Obs. 85.— Lunan, Hort. Jam. i. Cent. ii. 294. 
390. — Grisebach, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 397.— Eggers, Bull. U. S. 4 Seemann, Jour. Bot. iii. 279. 
Nat. Mus. No. 13, 67 (Fl. St. Croix and the Virgin Islands). 5 Miquel, Martius Fl. Brasil. x. 282, t. 27, f. 1. 
